Recent content by Racharg

Well, after poking and proding every permutation and combination with a VOM, there is no short that I can find. Looks like the chip is caput. Not sure if I managed to let the magic smoke out of it as I neglected to test its functionality before the installation. Luckily, it's a TCS M1 chip...

Sorry, guess I should have mentioned that it's n-scale ready to roll with no socket

I'm a DCC newbie. My first decoder install on an atlas gp35 went well and after much squeezing and shaving, I've managed to install a decoder in the tender of an MDC roundouse 2-8-0. Now I seem to have developed a short somewhere. Is there a tried and true method of determining the cause of...

This is a fantastic idea for a thread! In addition to quite a few items mentioned in the previous posts, a hair dryer for drying paint and lego gears and motor to power my turn table

This might help Starter's Kid. It forms the basis for my layout, though I enlarged it somewhat. You can see it .here. And I agree with billk that cassette staging is the way to go, on the starter's kid one, you could put one in where the loading bay is. There's also an article on cassette...

Nice shots! I do love the consolidation, it's on my wish list. How does the 0-6-0 run? I've heard mixed reviews about it but was thinking of getting one anyways

The retaining wall how to Belg, I used Casey Feedwater's tutorial "Stonewallin'" in the Academy as the basis for the retaining wall and portal. The only difference is that I made cardboard shapes of the wall & portal, sealed them with masking tape and then applied the plaster of of the layout...

Arl: That's awedsome. I'm in need of something similar, next time your talking to your brother, could you ask him whether a similar set up would work for 1.5V grain of rice bulbs and what value resistor I might use?

Mat: Guelph's not that far from you, there's Neutron Electonics on Woodlawn road. There's also an army surplus store in Kitchener that's great for electronics. Found cheap relays there to make my DC throttles with.

hand carved portal & retaining wall And the reason it took so long to work on the sand house...The hand carved portal & retaining wall

With it's buddy the water tower...

Some more progress Finally got around to gluing everything and a preliminary attempt at weathering cardboard to look like wood and tin...

That's awesome I'll keep my eye out for them!

Hello, my name is Rich, and I "Play" with trains!

sand coral :)