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New Shipper on the NOGNRR
This structure just came off of my workbench about a month ago. All of the surface detail is not yet in, but I thought I'd post another shot of the building. Glockner's is entirely scratch built. The Crescent Lines ice reefer spotted at the building is a custom car produced by the Crescent City Model Railroad Club in New Orleans a number of years ago.
Your suggestions please - making a brick road in HO scale
Good evening all,
I have several areas that need to have brick roads / parking lots on my HO scale layout. I have some of the Plasti-struct brick sheets. Before I use those, I thought I'd see if anyone had other suggestions on modeling brick for streets.
Thanks in advance!
Tim Moran Akron, OH
The ProtoThrottle - so easy that an 8 year old can use it.
While I was talking to Scott Thornton, one of the other guys muttered, "He's back." Ends up they were talking about an 8 year old boy who had hung around a lot yesterday.. And who had been using the ProtoThrottle too. And well.
Ends up... his parent's own a local railroad and he's run prototype locomotives. He thought the ProtoThrottle was easy.
Simple electronics! I need a resistor I don't have...
I have a box nearly Full of 1/4 watt resistors... but I'd feel better using 1/2 watt in a simple circuit. (
All tutorials I find handle the calculations of resistance as resistors are combined. Fine... series is additive, parallel is inverse average... but watts??? I'd think it's distributed over parallel resistors, and want confirmation before I fry things. How small can my parts be before they don't perform?
Shelf Layout Eastward Expansion
Finally broke through the apathy barrier that stood between the existing layout and eastward expansion.
Getting some perspective on my backdrop
I'm about to start the backdrop for the second part of my layout, and there are two areas where I'd like to use perspective to get certain effects. For this part of the layout, I want it to look like it's in a narrow-ish valley, with the mountains close by.
The first section of perspective is behind where the logging camp will be going. I want it to look as though the valley is widening slightly behind the logging camp, and continuing along in a different direction. At the moment, it looks like this:
Underlayout sound (again...)
Hi,
I'm looking to add sound to my N-scale layout, but not using the in-diesel or in-rolling-stock method. I want to use under-layout sound because all the in-diesel sounds I have heard are not what I want. Scale sound considerations aside, I would like to hear more bass/rumbling that those small speakers can provide.
Movies from the FREMO Meeting at Mammendorf
Hello,
it took some time but now I edited my video footage from the FREMO meeting at Mammendorf. Enjoy the movies
Help with DCC
I'm thinking of making the switch from DC to DCC for my 3' x 6' N scale layout. I don't anticipate running more than 3 or 4 locos at a time, and I expect to be the only operator. Couple of questions:
1. Is there any advantage or disadvantage over competing brands of DCC equipment? NCE vs MRC vs Digitrax? Pricewise they all seem about the same for their entry level systems, any benefits to one brand vs another? There are no model clubs or other layouts near me to visit, so I'm having to rely on the kindness of strangers.
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