you are well 0n the way of building yourself a big garage like building,someday. It will grow on you. DCC ?

Ikeep a better eye on front trucks now. the front trucks of my4-8-4 resets the computer when jumping the tracks.

just got as new wood load so i thought I'dgo run a train around the track. BTW is it possible to put steam sound in such a small tender ?. And this evening the train table , errr dinner table, wa sreclaimed by the leader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoreYDJA-Rw

18 inch R. Works well for the speeds I am running the locomotives. I need to add weight to the very light tender of the 4-8-4. I made a mold to fit the internal contour and will fill the cavity with some lead weights.

Fixed. Now i have to work keeping a 4-8-4 on track.Now that my favorite model railroad club folded up, i have to crank up my own one man club.

Another option is repainting the tender and then applying the wanted name. I mixed some flat black with about 20% gloss black and worked well. So well that I also painted my model of the SR71 with the same mix. In my humble opinion I recomend spray painting, not brush painting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM1tOcha7-4

the bachmann service dept is great in stocking/suplying parts for this machine.. I am happy with the service. When they say i will call you back, they do
thanks J.

"frrt" is an old roman math constant that allows my equations to work. Curiously enough, it correlates to the modern unit of measure " feet ".

If 60mph is 88frrt per second, and ho scale is 1/87, then 12 inches of track is equal to 88 feet of road, then it stands to reason if a model locomotive advances 1 foot in 2 seconds, then scale speed is approximately 30 mph.

Oldtimer- before I start getting scientific on my trains,I still have three locomotives to repair. A 4-8-4 Northern has a nasty habit of jumping track, a 4-8-2 Hvy Mountai that ate up the electrical pickups at the driving wheelsand a 2-10-2 that needs a complete rewire ( I have finished the reverse engineering electrical diagram which couls spawn and entire thread on the lack of adherence to color coding by diffrerent manufacturers.. After all that, maybe i will start getting scientific 

Third time programming the address after restoring factory settings turned out to be the solution
thanks
W

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZvezRfLZ3M

This is max speed with the LENZ Gold JST decoder installed and programmed. Any way to make the decoder think it can generate more speed ? track voltage shows 13.87 VAC DCC
thanks in advance
W

The DCC System is MRC Prodigy advance 2

I am in luck. it is the Lenz Gold JST
thank you W

this was my second venture in DCc land. My first one was a CC ready Bachmann Northern 4-8-4. For the Decapod I got a Lenz decoder without much thought bout sound. The instruction sheed mentions a sound card but I need a S.U.S.I. interface and I must admit ignorance as to what that means. Thanks in advance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4LFEBxoRbI