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Darn...I spent most of the winter in Yardley...and they have a show just after I leave :curse::curse::curse::curse:

Was that in New Hope, PA.?

Sounds like you guys are stealing ideas on road maintenence from Transport Quebec ( Quebec Roads Department0 :mrgreen:

is it the 45 tonner? or the 44 tonner? The 45 tonner already has the chip in it.

and the 44-tonner is bigger than the 45-tonner:mrgreen:

I've just spent a few days experimenting with the RIX Uncoupleing tool and the Kadee uncoupling pick ....must say I wasn't impressed either one at all ...ithe RIX one only seemed to work 1 out of 10 tries, if that and the Kadee one worked more often than that but tended to bump the cars forward...

Freelancer...thats exactly how I wired it. Gene

Yup..it has a board that I had to wire towall1

Thanks Bob....I did check the solder connections with a magnefier...couldn't see any improper or bad connections...I removed the decoder and the loco again ran perfectly in DC. Its weird...between the lights working and the screen on my DCC throttle showing the system was reading the decoder and...

I just hard-wired a decoder into my Bachmann Spectrum 0-6-0 dockside saddle tank loco. Unfortunately it doesn't work. The headlight turns on and off when I key the headlight button on my throttle, and the system reads the type of decoder on the programming track...but thats it. Its a digitrax...

I'm curious as to what you used to rust the sides of the trucks....that slippy plastic is a pain to weather/rust I find.

Larry...you do realize that the left hand end of this plan is an inglenook:mrgreen:

I think we all have to understand that the original concept of the inglenook is first and foremost a shunting puzzle, meant for simple relaxing pleasure, the fact that there are actual real-life inglenooks is a fortunate "accident" that allows us to have a real justification for a sceniced...

Rob...yes I'm very familiar with it.

Rob...this link brings you to the layout page in another forum, I don't think you have to register to be able to open the individual posts....the 4th or 5th ones down are small ingelnooks being built right now.....I urge to look at all of them though...thet are all small portable layouts..very...

Rob...2 great pages about small layouts, includeing shunting/switching layouts are at : Micro/Small Layouts for Model Railroads and the small layout design group at the yahoo groups page Yahoo! Groups - Join or create groups, clubs, forums & communities you have to register at the yahoo...

My buddy was specific...artists graphite pencil ..not grease or powder or Grease'em probably for the very reasons already mentioned. My buddy runs short trains on small layouts withalmost no grades so he's not had adhesion problems, but I agree, long trains or grades would probably not work...

I've just been given an interesting tip for regular DC and am wondering what opinions are as to how it might work for DCC. Its this....rub very clean rails with a graphite artists pencil, this apparently greatly improves electrical contact and puts a protective layer on the rails and loco...

I second Squidbaits comments....I impulse bought a DCC equipped 70-tonner...it runs smoothly,has pretty good slow-speed characteristics but is a bit noisier than Atlas,P2K...quieter than Athearn blue-box. I'll probably buy more actually. Cheers Gene