Hi! On my Shinohara 3 way I ended up putting power feeds at each ray point. The engines lost power on the out rays. Now it works as it should. Jay

Hi Ty, welcome to the hobby. Is it the first run? I was out of it for 20 some odd Years and came back with a bang. N scale is good for long runs. There's a good column in Model Railroader dedicated

I'm 77, started building my current HO layout in 1978. It will NEVER be 100% finished. Good luck to you, all I've read in response to your email is excellent in my opinion, especially the turnout

Ty... Before beginning any layout....I suggest reading A Clean Well Lighted Place by Earnest Hemingway. Consider this tale upon your next visit to a Train Store; where the older owner and the much

Does anyone have a diagram to show how the Walthers fascia control 942-121 attaches to a Hare? Or are they suitable only for connection to their servo machines? sdmeyer

Mark (and others), There is no mention of S Scale. I will leave it at that. Luther Stephens

Well with S Scale there's an issue with product availabilty.

They are incompatible. Dale Gloer

Let me put in my 2 cents for O scale. I have a three car garage in Southern California, and built layout around my sports car in the middle stall. It's traction/two rail, and while the curves are

Sorry, I forgot. I had to isolate the out feeds. Shorts were happening on my DCC system. I put isolators on both rails on each leg. Then added power to each leg, past the isolators. No more

I suggest the issue with product availability is knowing where to look. The best place to start is with the NASG. Web site is nasg.org. The site is loaded with photos of almost everything S. Also

Greg...turnouts have always been a big issue...especially crossovers. I've scaled down my track plans because of... I personally like the Micro Engineering brand. But still...having a small switching

I can see S scale working out in the battery dept. What size batteries and are they rechargeable? Cheers Brad

The common wisdom seems to be to isolate not only the reversing section but to also keep the auto-reverser separate and apart from any circuit breakers controlling other power districts. In other

Rich, your thinking is logical except for consideration of how the auto-reversers actually work. When a loco enters an A-R section of opposite polarity there is a momentary short circuit created. The

Don, thanks for that response. You're right. I had not considered how the auto-reversers actually work. Fortunately, I have run separate buses for each of the four reversing sections. Incidentally,

Rich... A followup on your original line of thinking is that a short circuit anywhere on the layout should stop all trains. This makes perfect sense on a single operator layout if you plan on letting

Don, thanks for that follow-up analysis. In the process of building my new layout, I have created 8 power districts. The four reversing sections are separate power districts, each controlled by a

The PSX-AR will not work reliably if at all if installed downstream from a PSX circuit breaker. The PSX-AR has its own circuit breaker in addition to be an auto reverser so it should be powered

Hi Gang: I just published an Instructables design for easy to make terminal strips. They are made of PVC trim and use hex head sheet metal screws for connectors. No soldering, no stripping, multiple