Modeling topic
Clocks?
This is a question for those people who use clocks during their operating session, regardless whether they are fast clocks or 1:1 clocks.
I model the 1900 era and I want to have clocks in the layout room to coordinate operations.
I have several options on clocks:
Siskiyou Line 2 update as of July 2021
Before I decided to dismantle my Siskiyou Line layout, MRH began promoting a home layout building scheme we called TOMA — The “One Module” Approach. Modelers were happy to learn about TOMA as we explored it with a TRAINMASTERS TV project layout series, which we completed.
I always wanted a staging/fiddle yard.
Since the modeled portion of my layout depicts from New Windsor to Highfield, how to represent the eastern end where it connects to CSX was always problematic. My layout is in a finished portion of my attic and there is a ten foot section where the roof is a 45 degrees down to a hip-wall. Incorporating this into the layout was difficult. I finally tackled the project and built a shelf along the wall with a lift-out section to be able to access the attic storage area.
More ESU issue (no lights)
I have two Scale Trains SD40-2, two LokPilot 5 and two LokSound 5 decoders. I want to replace the LokPilots with LokSounds which is easy enough except the lights won't work with the LokSounds. They work with the LokPilots. I tried the obvious combinations, decoder A in loco A (no lights), decoder A in loco B (no lights), decoder B in loco A, etc, etc, (no lights). The sound and drive functions seem to work. Is it a programming thing or two bad decoders or two bad somethings? The decoders show manufacture dates of March '19 and April 2020.
hand layed track
well i need to relearn how to lay my own track, and build turnouts, been many decades since i have done so.
on searching a number of web sites most use glue, not spikes. does this glue truly hold the rail to the ties? no drifting out of gauge? how long to "let it set"?
any here done so, please educate me.
Adding plugs to DCC wiring
Do any of you use some sort of plugs when you wire up DCC in your locomotives? What have you found works best (note: I'm in HO).
I'm using a DecoderBuddy Tiny in an Atlas MP15DC and both the rear (cab) headlight and the KA-4 (that I shoehorned into the cab) are permanently part of the shell - and I'd like to keep the shell fully detachable.
Weathering Tangent NP Combination Door Box Cars - Specific Accuracy for 1977
Mr. Rivard added "white wheel inspection dot". The Federal Railroad Administration issued Emergency Order No.
Condensed Profile
I have a copy of the BN condensed profile from 1979 for their Wisconsin Division "Bemidji to International Falls".
I have a question on the codes used to identify a bridge.
The bridge I'm looking at is the over the Big Fork River, Bridgehunter.com | Voyageur Trail/Blue Ox Trail - Big Fork River Bridge
On the profile it is identified as "Br 166, Big Fork River ~ 14 Sp. P.B. & 1-127', 1-157' T.P.C.T."
Operations resume!
Last night I resumed operations on the W&N Branch. Not only was it the first op session in over 18 months, it had several milestones:
First op session with the new northern half of the layout in service
First op session with seven operators
First op session to try the CCTV dispatching system
Outside of a few issues with the layout operating dormant for over a year, it performed well.
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