Just thought I would post a photo of my recently completed National Steel Car NSH90V 89' flat car. The shell is 3D printed from Firecat Designs. It sits on a Walthers chassis, and the following have been added. Plano coupler cut bars, grab irons with bolt castings, underslung train line hoses, full brake gear, Kadee 100 ton trucks, Grandt Line stake pockets, cribbing with scratchbuilt brackets, home made decals, microscale TTX logo, and a BLMA models pipe load. Enjoy and have a great day.

Shane

I recently become the proud owner of an N scale Tomix 92815 500 series Shikansen after lusting for one for literally years. Now I'm looking to install DCC in it - but my Google-fu is failing me. I can't seem to find where anyone else has installed DCC in this little gem. I know I'm going to need three decoders - one for the motor car, and one function-only decoder in each end for the lights. Does anyone have any experience or references for this? 

I recently started a new layout.  One of my goals in my new HO layout was to move away from plastic snap together Bachmann track to more realistic Code 83 flex track.  As I'm more of an operations guy with limited skill set in preplanning design I loved E-Z Track as it was so easy to make changes.  In my quest to be more realistic on my new layout I've spent more time planning as well as upgrading my benchwork and track.  My current design is L girder topped with a 1/2" plywood base and then topped with a 1 1/2" thick pink plastic insulation sheathing.&

Okay, so... so far, I can only find three places to find Digitrax sound projects (the SPJ files... I have attempted to make my own, but that didn't work out in the least!)

The three places I've found are the Digitrax sound library, the Digitrax Yahoo group, and "https://groups.io/g/AnPRR".

Out of the three groups, I still haven't found something suitable for a 4-4-0 engine. (and before someone sends me the PDF that mentions the 0-4-0 at AnPRR, I would like to assure you, it hasn't been made yet... it's still a future project)