Recent content by Buddog

Been doing some work, even took a couple buildings out of storage. I have had a couple locomotives running up and down can't wait till I at least have a continious loop to run.(be a while though). Anyway here are a couple pics. Tom

Let me be the first to say welcome Your layout is looking really good. Tom

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progamming a locomotive means you can set up the number that the engine is so you can call up the loco to run. You can also set up the speeds so it starts and stops more realisitc ( if you do that remeber that stopping takes a bit longer , had an engine run off the end of my old layout once.)...

So it's going to be all steam? Shay's for the logging? I saw my first full size operational Shay this past summer in Ottawa at the museum of Science and Technology really cool. You may want to really look at where you are going to have your sections connect, see if your going to have to many...

That will work you can run feeder lines off that bus to the tracks above, but remeber that in DC you can't run more then one locomotive unless you isolate the tracks... What era are you planning to run?

I am running DCC , I found out the last time I built a layout that it's a pain drilling holes in the braces after they are in:curse: , so I drill the same pattern in every brace and every joining peice before hand so I will never have to worry when running wires in the future..:thumb: Tom

It's actually in sections there are four of them built so far and three more to build they all go together like a jig saw . Each section is completely seperate, wiring and track also scenery will be that way to, sort of Modular. :thumb: Also I am tring to keep the weight down as much as...

HO scale, I managed to get the wife to let me have 1/4 of the basement when we built this house the room for the layout is about 1/4 of that. my work shop is the rest. Tom

Well after months of planning I finallly have built and now have a fair portion of the benchwork done. Right at the moment I am tring to do both Benchwork and finish drywalling the room. Here are a couple pics and the full plan which seems to change a bit every day as I build more and find...

Trainz 2006 by a company called Auran http://www.auran.com/TRS2006/index.php is really good, don't use it myself but my father who's retired has it uses it every day. He has a layout on it that he has been building for months takes two hours for a train to go full circle, graphics are amazing...

Georges Trains is almost a hour away, so I have not been there in almost a year, I imagine they would know where to get it, but with all thats going on right now cork will due. I am hoping to get there before Christmas (always like going there and looking around..) And yes the staff there are...

Been awhile since I have been able to go to any hobby shops in the area, A little someone came into my world on the second of Nov, her name is Julia and after a few weeks in the hospital she has finally came home:) :) :) :) . She was six weeks early, but she's doing really well, now that she is...

Not to burst your bubble, but that may work only for a short period, there is always some loss due to friction, the pulley system and even motor at the end. The battery will last for a while but slowly you will not have enough amps to due much of anyting. I would be surprised if it ran for an...

I picked up the Big 10 today, told the wife we needed milk and I would go get it, expensive milk was her comment when I got home. I have not tried it out yet but it looks really good, better quilty then previous sets from the past. Will be tring it out in the morning, oh ya it's price is $99.00...