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    GE 44 Ton DCC Tutorial

    Page 4 Well the next thing to do is to take the motor assembly apart so I can start the isolation process. I was going to bring it to work this morning so I could look at it under the microsope to see if that would shed any light as to how to disassemble it. "DISASSEMBLE??? NO...
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    GE 44 Ton DCC Tutorial

    Page 3 I will start off here with a picture of the break down... Hopefully you can blow this up to see the details. This is always very helpful when you are destroying...I mean dissassembling a unit. This shows the top of the unit and the printed circuit board. The lights and their diodes...
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    GE 44 Ton DCC Tutorial

    Page 2 Well this is what she looks like under the hood. The first picture I took of this was blurry so I had to take another one. This picture was taken later so the Truck Side Frame (the piece of black plastic covering the wheels) is already removed on the left side. You can actually see...
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    GE 44 Ton DCC Tutorial

    I love forums....you can find a ton of information...even stuff you didn't know that you didn't know. :confused: I want to thank everybody who posts here because you've been a wealth of information to me starting out in model railroading. Well my knowledge is very very limited but I do want to...
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    Beginners: Learn from my mistakes!

    Over Analyze My wife says over and over again that I "Over Analyze" everything. I buy books and books about my "idea or plan" for the moment and drop everything else. Which is true! We were planning on taking a cruise to Alaska so I bought books (An Idiots Guide to Alaska) and books about the...
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    Where Do You Start?????

    I'm doing a coffee table first with HO and N. You can find the thread in the HO section. I'm also working on a large 5'x10' N layout. That progress is in this section. My question is geared more toward my large N layout since there are so many switches and track involved. It is almost...
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    Where Do You Start?????

    Track Laying Virgin This is my first time at laying track. So I nail down all of the switches first. I would then solder the flex track together to fit to the next switch. Cut it to fit and move on. The curves are tricky since the rails move. I will need to cut the binders as needed and even up...
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    Where Do You Start?????

    Okay...I have a plan...where do I start laying out from? Do I start in the center and work out? Do I start at one corner and work out from there? Do I start in the yard? WHERE???? I will print out the layout from XTrkCad at 1:1 and use that for the general track location but do you start at a...
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    My first N Scale Lay-out

    Luckily I had some engines, cars, track, switches, power supplies, and other important stuff donated to the cause. I am still accepting donations of other N scale items if there are any generous people out there. :-D:-D:-D Reid
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    My first N Scale Lay-out

    Newest Plan Okay...here is the latest and probably the last change. The major change was to add another foot to the top. This gave me the room for another yard. The right one will represent Spokane's East yard and the top on the West yard. The center yard is going to be Wenatchee WA. The brown...
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    My first N Scale Lay-out

    Here are two updated layouts taking the advise of adding 2' to the end. I stretched the center circles on the left which brought the grade down to 3.2% which is acceptable. I also added a larger yard in the center. Is there any way to make this better? On this one I changed the right yard to...
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    My first N Scale Lay-out

    I was told to move this from Mikes Layout Plans in the N Scale Thread to here...so here it is. Okay...this is what I have so far. This is the plan from Mike's page that I like. It is 4'x6.5' in N scale. And this is how I modified the track. First I added 1.5' to the right side of the track...
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    Mike's Small Trackplans Page

    What Do You Think Okay...this is what I have so far. This is the plan from Mike's page that I like... And this is how I modified the track. First I added 1.5' to the right side of the track to add the two yards. I like this because I can work one yard while a train comes into the second...
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    Coffee Table Ho and N Lay-out

    I finished the layout in XTrkCad and ran some trains on it yesterday. It won't be much of a layout but I think it will be enough for what I'm wanting to do with it. I don't want any switches to deal with. I want to be able to turn it on and let it go . I had to work today so and I have a work...
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    First Pix

    Looking good. Be careful of the lay-out being on the floor. My son-in-law started an N layout this weekend. He left it on the floor and his son (10 months old) tore it up last night. :cry: lesson learned....
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