I have been reading this forum all day thank you everyone for the materials they have been posted. So I had to join and throw out some questions myself. My father passed away 13 years ago and my stepmother ranoff with his stuff. I now have recently obtained his HO railroad stuff. He was a modler but also loved working on an actual railraod whenever he could. I have just inventoryed 7 trunks and about 15 boxes of things. I just finished with the frieght and passenger cars and there was 196. so i have a good start. When I was young he had gotten rid of his big layout and had built me 4X8 layout that moved around with us. Of course if I knew what I knew now I would have spent a lot more time with him getting him to show me how but I didnt and I dont really know where to begin. During those years that he was a live he was always planing a huge layout for when he retired. I always helped with the planning but nothing else. I have basic plan for a 11' by 19' room. I would like to do a town/ dock on one end of the layout and a mountian/ logging operation on the other. Is there any basic book or video that will help me get started? I am planning on giong DCC. Is there any paticular unit I should be looking at? How hard is it an cost worthy is it to switch old locos to dcc or should i buy new ones? Thanks
Stephen
Stephen