A Tale of two switchers: About sixteen or more years ago, I painted up two Railpower CF7's in my club's home road scheme. At that time, a lot of...
Alan, I was able to find 60 ore cars at our club and it pulled them with no problems. I think it will pull quite a few more. JimJ, I made a video...
In 1988, my then new bride took me to her hometown and we visited the DM&IR Yellowstone at Proctor, MN. I can still see her posing by the...
The fastest way to paint large brick structures is to use the appropriate colored spray can. The new Fusion paints for plastics have a fine enough...
Before anyone can recommend a brand of locomotive or type of locomotive, they have to know what you are looking for. Is your pike a switching...
The Bowser street cars are pretty nice and are DC only. They might be a bit big for your intended purposes though. [IMG]...
Check out this link (below). These are the current numbers offered by Athearn. All current models should have the Tsunami decoder. Athearn...
Since Homasote expands when exposed to water (when ballasting, etc) my club paints the Homasote with Latex paint and allows the paint to dry...
Wolfgang, Here is the finished trainorder signal attached to the building. It does rotate. [IMG][IMG]
I plan to. It shouldn't be too hard to fabricate out of some brass tubing, wire and styrene. The harder part is going to be to put the caps on...
M&St.L's LaSalle Depot model posted here: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?p=775316#post775316
This Depot was torn down in the late 50's or early 60's. One of our club members was there when it was going down and he took the signs and the...
Take a look at this link: http://www.noelsbigfour.com/icePlatform01.pdf While he details building a large scale ice platform, you could easily...
I use spray-bomb red primer for large buildings. The fastest way to add the mortar is to use one of those liquid white shoe polish...
Let us know how this works out, YoHo. My club is interested in this too. You might want to look at PTC's. They should be fast enough to protect...
I'm old enough to remember the hobby in the pre-DCC standard days and when people were screaming about how DC was good enough and we didn't need...
Here is some basic getting started help: http://jmri.sourceforge.net/help/en/html/apps/DecoderPro/MoreInfo.shtml...
Absolutely, those things can be done. However, C/MRI, etc are proprietary. There was digital control of locomotives before the DCC standards but...
True, but since we are talking about DCC instead, I don't see why the requirements laid out by markwr can't be implemented. For one thing,...
You're right, Mike. Not everyone wants to run a real fancy system with computers and signals and CTC but some do. For the ones who do, DCC can...
