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N Scale small switching layout

Sat, 2017-05-27 10:01 — Rob Cooper

 I have a good HO scale  layout in a 1200 square-foot room in my basement.  I am five years into it's  construction and enjoying the continuing improvements and now operating with 8 to 12 friends on somewhat of a regular basis.  I have an area in my workshop in another part of the basement I'm considering putting an N scale  switching layout in.  I am running my HO railroad with the RailPro system by Ring engineering and absolutely love it.

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Gordon Gravett books on grass, trees - excellent!

Sat, 2017-05-27 08:20 — rgs_info

Not much layout work in the last week or two - due to lots of work, plus happy stuff like graduations. But I have finally gotten a few books on grass and trees by Gordon Gravett - generally not available in the US but by far the best I've found.

Need CAMA throttle

Sat, 2017-05-27 08:09 — Jamisonman

Since so many are going DCC, does anyone have a CAMA transistor throttle they would like to sell reasonable?  N gage please.  Building layout, too many good DC engines to change, many can not go DCC, so I am stuck for help.

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More LokSound Conversions...

Fri, 2017-05-26 23:41 — JLandT Railroad

So as a little project to get back into the layout after a a break for about the last month I decided to install some more LokSound - Select Direct decoders in my non-sound locomotives.

 

The first project was a Athearn - RDG RS3 #445.  

 

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Blackening Phosphor Bronze wire

Fri, 2017-05-26 18:18 — BR GP30 2300

Hi,

Do any of you here have any experience with blackening phosphor bronze wire?

I have some that I need to do this to for a project I'm working on.

Thanks.

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North America's Most Advanced Layout Exhibit | Our Home and Miniature Land

Fri, 2017-05-26 15:59 — Ron Pare

I know, the title will toss a few over the edge and does break into the realm of click bait. I believe it to be true.

 

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Loco runs on Sprog...not on EasyDCC

Fri, 2017-05-26 14:06 — jeffshultz

Okay, this is very, very weird. 

I have an Atlas MP15DC that I just rewired with a LokSound Select Direct decoder. My workbench DCC setup is a Sprog2 using JMRI and on it it works just fine - easily programmed and tested with all sounds working (and adjusted). 

FREMO Regional meeting at Hanau 2017

Fri, 2017-05-26 10:05 — McRuss

Today I attended the FREMO regional meeting at Hanau, near Frankfurt.

You could find the pictures I made during the meeting here.

https://goo.gl/photos/s7eEcRUqTmtZBUxV9

Markus

Video on my MANUAL MAGNETIC UNCOUPLERS (on / off position)

Thu, 2017-05-25 21:45 — Martin Burk

 

Here is my system for uncoupling, I have 27 on my small 22" x 13' layout, one at each position that I would want to spot a car at or break a train at. 

Moderator note: Changed to embedded YouTube video.

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Random Thoughts on a car card & waybill system

Thu, 2017-05-25 14:08 — jeffshultz

Or.... How to potentially thoroughly mess up an operating session. 

I've always had mixed feelings about the traditional 4-cycle waybill system. It does seem to work, normally, but it also seems fairly maintenance intensive - all the waybills have to be flipped between operating sessions and the like. I did not become a model railroader in order to do paperwork (which is also why I'm figuring on a TWC system instead of TT&TO). It also seemed like it had a certain lack of randomness.


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