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I think Digitrax recomends keeping bus lines under 30' to avoid interference.

Is there a tell all book for DCC? I was led to belive you did not need a lot of block wiring with DCC. Sooo I put only 3 blocks in my mainlines. Hooked up some jumpers to a reg. transformer and away we went. Atlas masters ran great. Hook up Diditrax-runs great. Now the problem. I 'm...

What can I use to fasten code 83 track to 3 cornerstone double truss bridges? This is a 45'' span. The bridges are painted.

Need help with East -West yard. I have an area 5' x 12' for yard. I would like to run an East and West mainlines through center with yard on each side. Entrance and Exits at each end. This area is open on both sides. Is this a good/ bad idea? Any ideas where to get information?

Try Roadside America. Different size trains. About 6 or 7 miles from Cabelas. Both could use up your whole day. near rte. 61 and 78.

Today was suppose to be the big day. laying the first piece of track. I put a spike in the spikepunch and look for the first hole. No hole. No holes anywhere! Two boxes of flex track with no holes! The code 100 has holes! Should code 83 have holes? I've had this track more than a year. No...

I save alot of money on some higher price items on ebay. $125 per box of Atlas flex track. Cornerstone buildings at 1/3 to 1/2 price of LHS. Saved avg.over $40 on more than 40 Atlas Masters locos. Thats a lot of money to buy more toys! All the little items I get at LHS.

The Atlas dual-mode decoder takes about 5 seconds to change between dc or ddc.

HO scale. Walkaround layout. The benchwork is up. I'm going to start track in the largest yard.- 13' longX64''wide.(2 sided access) I want to keep about 10'' to 12''down one side for the two mainlines. all the rest will be yard. It's flat with 1/2'' homeasote. I want the yard to hold as many...

when I try a search I get "under 3 word minimum" even if I use 10 words.

Dash 10 I do plan on fixing couplers and other problems. thanks four help. Don

Hi Train Master, Thank you for your reply and I think you are correct. I just want to give you the short story.... I bought a Disitrax Empire Builder System about 3 yrs ago & it has never been out of the box. I has just strarted to build benchwork when we decided to get a new house, all...

Good equipment is the key!!! Thanks But thats not what I wanted to hear. LOL Another roadblock. My rolling stock 350+ cars are mosty Tyco etc.(started collecting almost 40 years ago, only get about 10 out for Christmas) I have DCC and Atlas Masters. I did put Kadees on one end of 10...

My walk around layout will have 48'' or more radius curves with long straights leading up to them. One peninsula sticks out 5'(60''wide) = 180 degree turn. Could I run a long train (75-100 cars) out on peninsula or will they derail? I hope this makes sense.

Thanks for the help guys! I do have a book on building benchwork ( recommended by another Gauge member. This place is GREAT!!) that gives some imfo on building lift or tilt bridges, but your pointers could save me time and trouble.

I"m almost finished with the benchwork on my walkaround layout. I'd like to run 4 tracks over bridge.(1 foot wide?)How wide should I make the walk-through opening? 3'-4'?Is shorter better? Would there be less alignment problems with lift-out versus tilt bridge?

Thanks for reply Vic. I'll try bookstores. The trains will run about 95' along walls.less than 1/2 of total. Allot of angles and kickouts,should work well. Only 3 windows are on MY end of basement. I can't closeoff the families pool +pingpong table end. took over a year to find a house and...

I have a new house with poured concrete basement walls. Tarred? outside.Painted with white sealer inside. Painted floor. Allmost 1year old. NO leaks. My plan - Build 32"wide shelf mounted to walls and 3 or 4 penisulas. Has anyone drilled holes and lag bolted or used nailgun to attacth...