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    Tony's!! Rocks.

    I had asked the manufacture of my DCC set what decoder would plug right into my Athearn FP59PHI loco. Well after 3 emails to them and not even a peep out of them I asked Aethern if they recomended a decoder. They replied the next day and did not have a decoder to recomend. They said there...
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    Athearn 8 pin, MRC 9 pin

    I just opened the big box the brown truck left for me today. I am checking out my new F59 PHI and see it has a nice DCC plug all ready for my MRC decoder with sound. Well looks are not always right. The Athearn has an 8 pin plug and the decoder has a 9 pin plug. Does this mean I have to...
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    code 100 or code 83 or both

    I have settled on a track plan that fits what I want to do with my railroad. It is plan #62 Adirondack from the book 101 track plans. You can also see a small version of the picture at trainplayer.com. I have 15 code 100 NS flex tracks, 21 code 100 NS #6 custom line turn outs already. I...
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    Ssshhhhhhhhhhh

    Well I am most likely going to be in the dog house after today. I am not sure how it happened. I was just flipping pages on the the net. I was at a first hobby and the next thing I know I have ordered a Athearn FP59PHI and 5 Bombardier cars, Prodigy Advance, 3 Diesel decoders. I am just...
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    Train ride.

    Well I went on my first train ride in a long long time. It was just a short ride from the Sante Fe station in San Diego to San Juan Capistrano. We were sitting on the top deck of the Surfliner. I was impressed at how smooth the ride was. I remeber the noise of the train going over joints in...
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    Just a check on my sanity????

    I have been searching, reading lots of old mags and books, reading new books and mags, hitting every site on the net I could find, trying to decide on what I want in a layout. I have come close to figuring it out, atleast for now. I am not locked into any scale, I am trying to decide bewteen...
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    old-new-bee where and what to do.

    It has been about 4 years since I have run a train. At that time I had a nice 4'X8' N scale layout. Well times got hard and had to cut back on toys, so I got rid of most of the train stuff. I am now almost ready to dive back in. All I have is a hand full of Atlas code 100 switchs in HO and...
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