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Hey Everyone Well its been a year or so since I last posted here. I finally got my dream house, and with it came a room for me to finally build my layout, so no more appartment living and small layouts! I have taken a few pictures to give you ruff idea of what im up to, but let me give you...

Hey Folks So I finally fired up my control board for my yard. This board powers my switches as well as snap relays which trip an LED light to indicate position. The wiring works great! Now, the problem I am running a respectable tech 4 260 with 18.5 VA. This is more that enough to power my...

Hey folks Need some help from yall. I bought some LEDs from ebay, and these will be used to show switch locations on my my layout. Im powering these from the AC terminals (since they are off the switch machines and snap relays) My transformer rates the AC at 18.5 V. These LEDs are rated on...

Hey Folks Well im back again. Sadly life obligations and work pulled me away from my layout as well as this forum....but im back for good. And, as usual...im comin back with questions... Ive decided to do my layout in the dead of winter. Im talking COLD. Now, I want to model snow packed...

So I may have messed up, but I got ahead of myself and started wiring feeders into my yard. I was deep into the project when all of a sudden I realized I was using 14 gauge wire. Whoops! Thats kinda over doing it for feeders. I would really rather not undo all my hard work, and I dont forsee...

Im deep into the wiring jungle. Well, im getting ready to enter the jungle. But before I do, I have to remind myself how little about it I actually know. Im learning as much as I can before bothering you fine folks. However, I do have two questions. 1. what is the general rule for how many...

Hey Folks Does anyone know how to wire an LED to indicate an open or closed atlas switch machine? I would like to create a board with my yard that can tell me at a glance if a switch is open or closed. Im not sure if this had been discussed before....I ran a search with no luck. Any help you...

Hey Folks Well its been far too long since my last 4X8 layout, but the wife has promised that if I stop moping around about not having trains, she will let me have half the bedroom to build my long awaited rail yard. So, over the next month or so, I will use this thread to show the progress on...

Quick question I am currently without a voltage meter (I know, I know, I should already have one, im getting one next week) but I have a question one thing you folks may know. I have a rail power cheapo transformer. This one. Railpower 1300 (mrcaa300) MRC Model Train Power Supply /...

Hello Friends Recently I bought a Heljan 804 HO manual turntable from walthers. The directions so far have been moderately straight forward, but ive hit a stumbling block. The instructions for the bottom wiring assembly end after the brushes are assembled. So im stuck will all these extra...

Hey Folks Ive been away for a couple of months, nothing against the place, just life caught up with me. I finished school, got married, moved to montana, moved into a new place, started a new job, and havent slowed down since. So, after a long abscence...im back. Only downside is space is...

Hey Guys! I would like to dominate my MRR with 40' wood sided boxcars. Now im not referring to the wood style with steel "Supports" im looking for the all wood sided ones...like this. http://www.girr.org/girr/relics/wrm/wrm_drgw_wood_boxcar.jpg And sadly im having a devil of a time finding...

Ive recently accepted a great job in Bozeman MT....of course this means that im moving from Portland OR. The wife and I were discussing how we can move with the least amount of belongings..... Lets just say that my lobbying for the 4X8 layout was successfull......the couch may have to say...

Allright folks...im a little late getting this official thread started...but I was a day into this project when I made a fatal cut that cost me the whole project...so I had to start again. But enough with the excuses....lets get to the scratchbuilding. The place im going to model is called...

At times when discussing my railroading and related operations, I stumble over the idea that I am building my layout in DC. Almost anyone opening a MRR magazine or related publication tends to notice that the more impressive layouts are mostly all DCC. It seems some times us DC'ers are...

Hey DCC'ers Im toying with the idea of going DCC....Its becoming more appealing by the day! But before I take this leap I have one question. I would like to keep all my switching remote...and on my current 4X8 I have a number of atlas remote switches....are these possible to operate via DCC...

Im thinking about putting at turntable in my yard......but I know little about this and the research im doing isnt helping so im hoping you folks could shed some light. Ok bear with me while I explain this Im going to have a 4 engine engine house, and I want the ability to rotate the table...

Well I posted this thread last night with a ruff sketch of my trackplan, but asked for its deletion. After some great discussion and input with the fine folks of The Gauge chatroom, and a wonderfull re-vamp from Spitfire, I think I have my dream layout. I do not yet have the room for it, but...

Ive done some searching on the forum and come up empty handed. Has anyone ever posted a tutorial or thread about scratchbuilding HO street lamps? Ive been experimenting by myself and come up with nothing more than 30 bucks in the hole and a severe soldering iron burn on my wrist. I need some...

I decided I wanted to build a clocktower, so I searched google and found the one. It looked like a decent one to model after. And the final product came out like this. Darn camera phone pic again, it doesnt do it justice. But it lights up on all four sides! Its build out of wooden dowls...