Thank you for the replies. I started getting the 10x11 room ready yesterday evening. Definitely familiar was his work. I'm planning on using a...
I'm in the process of designing a new HO scale layout. I have the choice of two different rooms in my house. One is 10x17 & the other is 10x11....
Thanks for the reply. I ended up going with a mining as the industry.
My plans are to work some more on scenery. Right now the layout has the blue foam mountains look. I'm also planning on converting an older loco to...
Well the resisters didn't work but I'm not surprised. What I eneded up doing was lowering the track voltage. It's not perfect but it works ok....
You might want to check to see if they power pickup tabs between the chassis and trucks are right. Mine was running like crap until I noticed that...
I think that CV23 has something to do with consist mometum settings. Update on this. Talked to the factory yesterday. The guy there said that...
Top speed as in scale 7.7 mph at speed step 128. I am using the alternate speed table. Vmax is set to 60 which equals a scale 7.7 mph at least for...
I am using a nce d13srp decoder on 128 step mode. I played with all different settings for the mometum. 255 gives the slowest acceleration. I'm...
I am trying to get a locomotive to accelerate very slowly. I need to have it accelerate from a dead stop to top speed in 2 minutes. The best that...
I have found that strip styrene works best for me in between the tracks. Use a small thin peice to get the proper gaps for the flanges. To build...
Just a quick update. I went with the p2k sw8 locomotive. It runs nice and slow. I still have to finish up my decoder install. I went with a nce...
I have noticed on the p2k gp9 that I have is slow but wasn't sure how the switcher models are. It is so I can build a runaway box car that...
What is the slowest speed switcher that is readily avaible? If it dcc ready or dcc equiped, that would be a major plus. I'm going to putting the...
I like the idea of mines and a team track. I was thinking that maybe a really small railcar repair shop would work too.
After being away from the hobby for a couple of years, I am trying to come up with a new layout. I am wanting to base it off of the south west in...
[img] I made some more changes. Now it has the compound ladder that you were talking about. I also added a longer lead to the staging yard. There...
I redid the wye this morning based upon Tripex's suggestion. It looks alot nicer. Tonight, I will try to post it. I know I'm going to sound silly...
[img] Mods to this one is the staging yard off to the left. It has a runaround on it. The switches without blobs are atlas custom line #6's. I...
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'm still not for sure how I'm going to end up doing the trackage in middle of the oval. I do want an engine...
