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Hello all, after growing up with my father loving model trains, I've decided to start working on a small layout myself, N Scale due to lack of space. I purchased a set with a Bachmann 4-8-4 loco (AT&SF 3780) discount from a local hobby shop. However, it seems as though the connector between...

Don't mean to reply to myself yet again, but I have come up with a question. I've seen a lot of talk about "DCC", but I'm not sure what it is. Could someone give me a quick overview and/or give me a direction to read up more on it? Thanks, Ken

Haha, thanks! I'll post more photos if I get any that are decent, but I sincerely doubt an old, dusty back-from-the-dead layout in a cob-webbed up garage would win any photo contests any time soon! Best, Ken

Just doing a little looking at some of the recommended sites. I'd like to get him a few hoppers, but this price seems a bit steep for just a car. http://www.1stplacehobbies.com/cgi-bin/prod.asp?pn=85-47017 Is this a decent buy? Ken

Thanks very much to all for the detailed information, recommendations, and welcomes! I appreciate all. I'd actually like to get an engine like he had when I was a kid, for the nostalgia in me. I believe it was a Union Pacific GP9, if I remember the model name correctly. Who makes a good...

HO Scale trains are something that I remember fondly from my youth. My dad always had a layout, if not an extravagant one. The last few years he's done all of his model railroading on a computer (Auran Trainz). He had a major heart surgery last year, and as one of the hobbies I've been...