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I want to install a strobe light on the top of my n scale locomotives and hooking it up to the decoder. I was having trouble finding white 1.5mm white LEDs. I was thinking of using a small incandescent bulb instead, probably something like this Has anyone done a similar installation? Any...

Has anyone ever set up the back-emf features on a digitrax decoder? It seemed like a bit of work going through the three CV's and indvidually incrementing them to find the correct value as described in the instructions. Is it worth it? I tried turning them up pretty high and I still had to...

I think I might convert my layout to DCC. The motivation is running consists of locomotives. Over the past few months I have four Atlas GP38-2's. Unfortunately they all run at slightly different speeds, and only two of the four are close enough in speed that I feel comfortable running them as...

Does anyone know if roundhouse car kits come with trucks? If they do what kind of couplers? How is their quality? I have seen several on Ebay lately and am trying to decide what they are worth. If they don't come with trucks or don't have the right kind of couplers I need to get them...

I just spent a few hours of my morning re-installing one of the two Atlas under the table switch machines on my layout. It went smoother then the first installation, but it still was a major pain. The switch machine has just enough throw to move the points from one side to the other. If you...

I had been meaning to start a thread on the progress of my new layout and finally got around to it. This first part is what I have been up to the past two weeks. Last week I tore up my old layout. Based on some feed back I had gotten on here I decided that I probably wouldn't get as much as I...

I recently moved to a new, bigger apartment. I have been wanting a layout to run longer trains for a while something my old layout had trouble doing. I am not sure if my apartment is big enough for two layouts, so I have been thinking about selling my current one to make room and raise funds...

I am thinking about rearranging my the yard on my layout. I doing so I end up a crossover, where the two turnouts are related, so that it if one gets changed, the other should get changed. I would like to have it so one switch controls both turnouts. This is in N scale and I am using...

I have been putting this off for a long time on my layout and was hoping I would get some inspiration from you guys! I want to have asphalt roads probably. It is for an industrial area. What type of material to do you use to model roads? Any tricks, etc. that you use when modeling them? Thanks!

While running my Atlas GP-35 around my layout I noticed that is slows down significantly, to almost a crawl sometimes, going around the curves ( radius = 10 in. ), even when not pulling any cars. It runs fine on straight track. None of my other engines have this problem so I don't think it...

I am working on constructing an engine maintenance facility. Unfortunately some of the walkways included with the model have become warped. Instead of being flat, they are wavy. Any recommendations for ways to flatten them out? I tried putting them under a book for a day but that didn't seem...

I have decided to add a separate staging yard to my layout. I recently acquired some new engines, so now I want to be able to be able to run different trains without having to move them on and off the tracks every time by hand. :) It will be 5 ft. long. The tracks will be spaced 2.25 inches...

Hi I am working on a new layout and trying to finalize a track plan. Before I take the big leap an start to glue things down I wanted to get some opinions and find out if anyone else has a similar sized layout. Some details on the layout: The layout is a 2.5 ft. by 4 ft. I live in an...