Just a note on Shinohara.... I struggled with Shinohara from around 1976 to 1982 in N Scale.....And then nearly gave up the hobby all together. It wasn't even in Gauge...I had to go over near every mm

Here is a video on an N Scale Signal Block System which I purchased in it's entirety a few months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qUJcdL9Gko&feature=youtu.be Just showed up on eBay one evening w

Aaron, Mostly my experience on issues with any Turnouts of any brand: Have not been specifically on the turnout but their interaction with the locomotive. A bit of history first, in 1971, I began an a

In a word Yes. I own several different DCC Controllers, nearly all purchased (cheap) > as a possible later re-sell...if I found them wanting. Two MRC, Two Digitrax, Dynamis and ??? More. Yet.... I nea

Thank ya' all for this discussion....as I am still in an attempt a least to Learn by Doing. Here is my situation.... After owning nearly every other DCC Controller from MRC to Digitrax; I stumbled upo

Nick... I set myself out of this one for a time, wanting to read what Others had to say. === All in all ...I must agree...Run to DCC. ==== Except for one major exception..... >> N Scale and HO Scale B

Thanks for the heads up, I have ordered some via eBay. Using them however? For now I am using a re-designed Kato system with drop down leads every 18 inches of three sections of soldered track. So...N

Farmer JJ John, Yes, get an eye for the details. Consider widening your Helix to 21.5 inches or greater. Track Curvatures & Rolling Stock http://www.nmra.org/track-curvatures-rolling-stock Track Curva

I am at these very moments in time...Creating an N Scale Helix with 28 1/4 inch Kato Unitrack. The outside (double) track is a bit over 30 inches in radius. === This is being set up on Four Modules Tw

Verryl, Thank you for your post....I had not considered using a Jewelry Tig Welder until you mentioned it. Jewelry Welder from TheRingLord.com Jewelry Welder from TheRingLord.com Jewelry Welder for we

Doc, I am currently (Pun Intended) embarking on a new method (at least for me) of wiring up my major layouts. On my small test layout, there are Kato Plug ins which are then cut off at the ends and wi

I was living in San Jose/Silicon Valley when Offices began to incorporate LAN systems to tie all their computers together. I was working in a place which though using IBM computers, had Apple Executiv

Hello all, I am having a similar experience with Paul on not cutting rails nor using AR-1 units etc. --- Here is why....in my travels I buy other people's stuff. So why have I been coming onto Loop/Re

Thank you Don.... I am a multi-tasking operator but the sole operator of my layouts. Which is sort of the reason >> I like two entirely different controllers for my two separate layouts... One of each

Thank you Rich, I have the RED ONE.... Yeah got it free at Harbor Freight. :)) Mark I have considered modifying an N Scale Tall Box Car or Minuteman Rocket Car or something to hold such a meter to be

Just a Thank you for people having the guts to ask such a question and the enlightened way it is being answered. ==== I believe for many of us or at least for me, we have old learning clouding our per

I am considering going with ready made Kato Unitrack feeders at every splice > at least on my test layout. Why? My N Scale Diesels...all of them find no issues with my track layout ability - even with

In my limited experience of >Back on the Tracks< these past two years, after a long hiatus of 30 years from N Scale....I must agree with Mark Gurries. >> So your stuck with long term oxidation failure

In my travels under the wire so to speak, I have been buying other people's layouts, sometimes nearly completed ones, some running on DCC. All on the cheap. >>>People whether they are running DC or DC

Hi Mark Gurries and all. First up I am getting used to my used but new to me BMW X5. It's an e70 and is able to carry loads of N Scale equipment. Which I have been buying on the basically un-used mark