Hello Mark: An important part of maintenance is keeping the track clean. I use Scotch Brite disks mounted to the bottom of a gondola. I wanted to make them

Clean track and other power pickup issues may be a problem. Consider using some sort of keep-alive added to your locos. DonV

Oh... be sure to use plenty of track feeders to avoid poor sectional track connections where it will be difficult later to investigate and fix. And leave room to accommodate some track roadbed vs rail

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 02:06 PM, Mark Cartwright wrote: How to control the this long trackage through Walls over a distance ? and not loose the DCC/Sound signal along the way....Twisting the DCC

Also Mark, your trim might be picture rail for hanging paintings, etc. CsB. On 3/15/2019 3:06 PM, Mark Cartwright via Groups.Io wrote:

Hello Mark: Very impressive project. I have four tracks that go through the wall and back, about 80 feet total. One think I noticed, before I put

Usually called "crown molding." Verryl Fosnight http://wyomingdivision.org/ -- Please use verrylf@... for all general and Wyoming Division correspondence to me. Use this address only for business

Hello all.... In some older houses...There is an Accent Trim, near the top of the Wall an inch or so down from the Ceiling. Not necessarily a moulding but sometimes it is referred as

I have both 12 VDC and 5 VDC power buses on my layout, supplied from large switching power supplies I bought from Jameco. I use servos for most of my turnouts and all of the stub turnouts. (I had some

I use a separate 5V bus for my servos turnout controllers.  I currently have about about ten installed.  I drive my bus with a switching power supply.  Jameco probably has the best US prices.  I

Hello Don: Cool! That works too. I don't need a reverser on my turntable, I'm 3 rail "O" gauge! One circuit is the gear motor, the other is the Lazy

Inside the pit there is a circle of track. It consists of two almost semi-circles with two small insulated sections, the size of the bridge, opposite each other, in an unused area. Each semi is

Turntables need a reverser only when they actually turn the loco around to head in the other direction.

Hi Tom: We added reversing cam switches to the turntable shaft. They work OK, but there is a dead space where we have no tracks. You can also use a toggle

Hi Don, Are the turntables always in need of an auto reverser by default? Thanks, Tom

As updated there are no reversing loops except for the turntable itself. DonV

Walthers makes a 12v PS {filtered} to go with their new LCC switch control;. Keith

A friend of mine uses a different approach to keeping wires out of the motor of a locomotive. He uses Aleene's Tack-It Over and Over. You can use the adhesive to hold down wires and you can peel

Hi! You power both systems from the DCC Bus or a 12v supply. The control boards supply the power to the servos. Jay

Dave, I have a 12 V DC power bus that runs around my layout. Then use small adjustable regulators from Banggood.com set to 5 V to power my servos. Paul O