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Turnout over a lake
Putting this in scenery and structures since it is more of a scenery discussion at this point. Feel free to move.
One of the principal towns on my narrow gauge pike has a lake as a prominent feature. I decided to swing one section of track out over a corner of the lake on a trestle. However due to space for the yard, I had to put one turnout on the end of the trestle.
Hard-wiring 8-pin Loksound decoders?
I have 30 locomotives that currently have Tsunami board-replacement-style decoders installed. I'm in the process of converting all to Loksound, and I have a great opportunity to trade most for a like number of new Loksound Selects. However, most of the Loksounds are of the 8-pin plug variety.
Would the installation of such a decoder as a replacement for a factory board-style Tsunami be feasible (i.e. clipping off the plug and soldering the various wires on the locomotive to those on the decoder)?
Horseshoe & Cottonwood Update #11
Another long day of work on the layout:
The first train into Muir Meadow. Got the static grass meadow, creek, and trees planted. Another coat of water tomorrow.
CY&PRR - Fitting An Odd Roof
I'm getting a little more time as summer wanes now to again do some hobby stuff. I am constructing an addition onto the City Fruit Exchange building. I used DPM modular components for the odd, non- rectangular addition. Instead of trying my luck with measuring and cutting on the styrene as there is only one right angle, I first made a card-stock template.
Two motors with one decoder
I have an Athearn F7 A-A setup that is semi-permanently connected together with a drawbar. Currently, it's a powered unit and a dummy, and the power is has a really good can motor that doesn't draw more than 500ma stalled. Full throttle runs about 60 scale mph.
I'd like to put another can in the dummy to power both units, and have questions about how to do that, specifically how to connect the motors.
Have I fried a DCC decoder?
I'll admit right now that other than what I've read here on MRH, I know next to nothing about DCC and probably haven't retained much of what I've read as I don't use it.
I've got a DC N scale layout with no intention of converting to DCC until the next one.
Design Change - Opinions/Suggestions?
The layout I currently have under construction is a free lanced plan of a fictitious portion of the N&W Pocahontas District. Being a coal hauler located in the Appalachian mountains, you would expect my layout to have a lot of grades, but such is not the case.
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