I found the MRH site accidentally a few days ago while searching for Track Plans for a very small HO switching layout that I've decided to build while away from home working. Kind of cool that a Google Search got me here via a picture of a track plan on Pinterest! I have a tiny room/office at my away place in Vancouver where I stay with a family. I'm hoping by documenting this, it might inspire other space challenged modelers to get building.

Well I have a feeling I am not the first one to come to this fork in the hobby road, but here is my commentary on where I am.

First thing that comes to mind when thinking of a hobby is something that brings a sense of joy or even reward. And when I say reward maybe I mean satisfaction to ones self for efforts they made in the hobby. 

I am at a point where I do not know if I am capturing that, and I find myself at a place where my direction is unclear and I feel more guilt the joy from the hobby. 

It is almost December so time to put up some Christmas decorations on my HO layout. This past year I got the last of the lamp posts up. So many towns and communities decorate their posts so why not do it in HO.

The process is simple, just need some time. 
Tools used include a hot wire cutter, knife, cutters. 
You need some extruded foam, couple of washers, craft paints, glue, fine turf, “dots” for decorations, thin wire.

This article describes a small, simple interface to convert DCC signals allowing a wide variety of Arduinos, PICS, Raspberry Pi’s or other processors, to utilize a native DCC signal straight from your layout bus. With this you can build DCC decoders with the likes of an Arduino Mega2650 which has 67 input/output pins available for decoder use, or try using a Teensy 4.0 with 600MHz clock speeds.