Cold weather sometimes has interesting side effects -- and exposes problems that were there all along. Recently, the big yard in my layout developed a short. The PM42 triggered, of course, and my control panel showed that the problem was in the Deseronto yard area. I took everything off the track and started poking around. Nothing... checked all the turnouts, trackwork, nothing showed. Interesting thing, though. When I measured the resistance between the rails I got 84 ohms... an odd number. FInally, by isolating chunks of track and walking the line with my ohm meter -- I found it.

The bench work build for my updated layout is taking a long time so to keep things interesting, and get some trains running, I indulged in this small project, making use of unused equipment. 

Happy holidays!

Do you cut the iphone4 speaker to fit the location in the locomotive ?  It is fairly long, but thickness and width are great size.  Thanks Zeke

I visited my friend and fellow IAIS modeler, Joe Atkinson, yesterday. Joe is in the process of converting his entire diesel fleet to Loksound decoders and we got together to try and upload some of the sounds into a few of his decoders and engines. We didn’t get very far with installs, but we learned more about the Lokprogrammer and had a good time catching up and eventually enjoyed running one of his converted engines around the layout with Loksound’s Full Throttle capability.