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Newbie Question on DCC
Hi there, I'm scratching my head here trying to figure how to wire my layout. I'm building a DCC layout and am trying to figure how to wire up the red track. See attached pic... It is sort of a loop I guess and the polarity does not match on both ends.
Can anyone shed some light? Thanks for any help you can provide...
Denis.
Scratchbuilt suburban station shelter
For my Philadelphia-oriented St Martins suburban layout, I had to scratchbuild both the main station building and the shelter on the parking lot side. The shelter was a pretty small project compared to some of the awesome modelling I've seen on here, but I thought it might be worth sharing some details.
The shelter is the red roofed structure in the below pic. It's front and centre on the layout - about six inches from your face when looking at the station, so I wanted to try to make a decent job of it.
Gloss Coat Options and Decaling Solutions
I'm sure this topic has been raised over and over here but im struggling with everyones recomendation to the one product "Future"
I have recently tackled a bunch of car building projects while I take my time building my layout room I wanted to make a dent in my rolling stock fleet. At the moment they are mainly Tichy kits and some resin kits to come.
NEW VEGETATION AND LANDSCAPING AT CONSOLIDATED NICKEL
Dear model railroading friends.
We are doing some maintenance to our Consolidated Nickel Mines layout. We also did some repairs and improvement to our landscape, adding some plants. This latter operation went in line with our “zero cost” philosophy.
The Problem with Frog Juicers
A mere band-aid to a bigger issue
I recently received Rapido's SW1200RS: this is a beautiful model that is fun to operate and sounds great. Unfortunately, as soon as you start doing some slow-speed switching and you hit a dead frog the locomotive stutters to a stop. While this doesn't happen consistently it happens consistently on those particular frogs. It's in Rapido's hands right now.
RAIL-CLEANING RAILCAR - HOME-MADE
Dear modeling friends.
Using pieces from our junk pile, we built (finally) our rail-cleaning railcar. To be noted, in our Consolidated Nickel layout, we have a 1.5-meter tunnel section, which is almost inaccessible. We have retrieved an old Metaltrain flatcar (a one-piece solid, heavy block of die-cast alloy). We have machined two pieces of thin stainless steel sheet (origin: old 3.25-inch PC diskettes), and installed them under our flatcar.
Protothrottle wireless communication protocal
Protothrottle Boys,
I know that the Protothrottle isn't using Bluetooth to communicate with the DCC receiver, but a recent development from a fellow large scale hobbyist had me wondering if the Protothrottle would work and communicate with this guys development.
It looks like his is also using the Xbee radio system to communicate between a phone and the DCC board. My question is, if you worked together could it be possible to make an even more low cost dead rail setup with the Protothrottle?
http://blueridgeengineering.net/index.php/wiki/overview/
Rt 88 Overpass
Thanks for the Image help everyone. My first direct post, and I am on a LINUX machine. Anyway, I wanted to share the highway overpass I'm scratch building. The paint to still a bit wet, but I'm pretty happy with the overall results.
Image help: Why are photos upside down?
Any idea why, when I paste a .jpg image here, it displays upside down?
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