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cool layout. Congrats. Me? I have this here backwaters train set mentality which made me put out an MDF 10X4 table which kinda sprouted an L on the side, and what do you know, it's a shunting yard with a dogbone mainline, and here is where the bone will spur to the dock area and this here...

yo man....you must be real tall...... ;)

Pardon my asking, but what is the book called, and where can I get one, please? It's perfect for me at this point in my empire building :thumb: cos i've got lots of ideas but i needto put them in some kind of perspective. Whilst on the subject, is there any canon or "rules" which whilst not...

my man...:thumb: ...:thumb: MY MAN :thumb: .......:thumb:M:thumb:Y:thumb: :thumb:M:thumb:A:thumb:N:thumb: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! I could kiss you!! Thanks for the info.:wave: My "only" reasearch tool, albiet a very powerful one, is the net. :( See, we do not have trains here, :cry: and...

ok tech stuff now.........does a GP-50 (what an ugly brute, but I fell in love with it) have a front- and a rear-end or is it double ended? Also, on what type of maintenance programme are they operated in real life? I mean for say engine oil....is it an oil change every 5000miles or just top...

ermmmmmmmm........already got one :rolleyes: .....wife, i mean, for quite some time now, too...... thing is I'm still trying to figure out how to read and reprog her decoder!!!!!!:eek: Can't say anything wrong about her, cos she just approved the territory lease on which I can eventually...

I'd welcome any comments on MRC's Prodigy Advance, please

I'm thinking OO/HO......is it me or am I getting this vibe that PECO is preferred over Atlas Tracks? not from this thread, mind, but from elsewhere. Then again, it could be me............

I'm a newbee here, and I was delighted to hear an english loco start up, and chug along. Sound-equipped locos are now on my shopping list. The atlas unit apparently even replies with the cv addresses and their values during programming. I only hope that my loco will not one day say...

my half penny's worth on the dcc/dc issue I'm a greenstick newbee when it comes to MRR but I'm quite comfortable in the company of electronics. ATM I'm rooting about gathering as much info on OO/HO as I can which I hope will lead me to knock up a half decent layout.............. Given the...

another newbie looking for help too any particular reason why the PECO snappies and not say ATLAS?:confused: I'm asking cos atm I'm at the design stage of my dream setup and I'm slanting towards the ATLAS trackage if only for financial reasons. :oops: I'd welcome any input on track choice...

I was going to say that someone parked the rails in the wrong place and they got clamped.

a better way is to arrange the electrical contacts in a way that when the turntable motor is switched off, it shorts itself out. The back emf generated by the motor will stop the motor dead and remove any overrun. It actually works and the turntable will stop dead immediately. Just be 200% sure...

I hope that 2005 will see the founding of my railroad empire. So far its all plans and vapours and the learning curve is steep for a denizen of a train-less nation, but its fun-fun-fun all the way. Hey UP SANTAFE, I'll pay s&h if you'll reroute the atlas track from the dumpster to me.... whats...

if you want to have a go and design the layout yourself, you can do that without buying a single piece of track, and for free. ATLAS have a cool layout designer download which lets you build your dream layout on http://www.atlasrr.com Give it a try.

nice, these earthlings-on-rails!!!!!! thanks for the help people :thumb: some stuff about myself, then........I live on a small island in the middle of the mediterranean sea, and I am in the unenviable position of not having any trains running anywhere :cry: Please bear that in mind when...

hello people, I am Mike :wave: and I had a LIMA set when I was young. Apparently I must have been a bad bad boy cos it disappeared somewhere along the line !!!:cry: All contact with the model train world was lost until lately when I rediscovered the HO/OO world. :thumb: Only problem is that I...