http://s723.photobucket.com/albums/ww238/irbricksceo/hogwarts%20part%202/

this album has the based on loco, the first shot at wiring, and some shell prototype pics.

i am rebuilding a mantua 0-6-0 into a brittish class c 0-6-0 for my hogwarts express, look here


http://s723.photobucket.com/albums/ww238/irbricksceo/hogwarts%20part%20%201/

had this set but seeing as i was 9 i broke it. i am now finding the coaches and can fix them. my question is does anyone know where i might find a hogwarts loco.

I need an opinion on putting dcc in my new mantua classics 0-6-0 tank.

i know... meant miliamps but was in a hurry sorry however, the principle remains the same.

here is my advice. there are many leds with many different current capabilities. that is why i try to stay consistent. not having the electrical know how of jim banner, i usually tinker with various resistors, working down showing overkill at first to reduce the number of Smelly leds as i call them. (Man did i stink up my friends basement with 30 odd blown leds). I used them in cars. however, they are fed via track which ment i couldn't use them on a dcc setup. and their lighting would vary. I will say that my best friends were a soldering iron (Duh), a Multi- Meter  , your best friend, and some sort of device that supplies varrying amounts of power and current to your circuit, telling you at what voltage and current, Current being extremelly important, it blows.  I know not much about circuit math but can tell you that you shouold not conclude that they all can take 20 amps.

Pardon me but i believe the accela in question is the express. my logic is this.

Amtrak- The railroad that covers most of the u.s.a passenger service
Accela- one of amtraks fastest and most luxurious express's
northeast corridor- an electrified express route that handles many locomotives such as the accela and the hhp-8 featured in the set "noreastern"
Amtrak also used  f40 ph locomotives as was in a set made prior to the noreaster however these were more along the commuter lines as they were diesel electrics, not electric locos.
So basicaly, the accela was not amtrak but one of their trains

However you are right, he may or may not know this and we must know the set.

i have almost perfected my tack plan but need to know: any good sites to see a good but small track plan for an industry. my center is rather void of the coal plant i wanted to put there...

if what i am seeing in my head and what you have described are the same, it would be a short.

lets put it like this. some sets are fine, the spectrum passenger sets being good. but some are just odd. tell me, when was the last time you saw 2 locomotives working on 4 cars, 2 none of them even the same type. this is just to be "Pretty" as you put it.

so 5 and 6 are fine? but not 4?

hmm... i dont have any curves but many switches of various sizes... will need to think.

the usra light mountain by spectrum can handle 18 inch radius right?

I have all but given up on my 2X12 for a mainline. unless anyone can tell me how to make a good length mainline, should i do an industry?

what model would look the most like this in your  opinion?

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nysw/nysw-s107ajz.jpg