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I would greatly appreciate any insights! Last year, for Christmas, one of my kids was given a P1k Erie-Built Santa Fe A-unit. He LOVES it! Which is great...and now the top thing on his list for Santa is a powered B-unit to go with it, which is quite a challenge to find. Ideally, I'd like to...

Attached are pictures of a few engines I recently bought at a fire sale. I was wondering if anyone could tell me who makes them, what type of engines they are, and what would be appropriate decoders for them. (If they're junk that's going to give me headaches, that would be useful to know too!)...

I recently bought a terrific Atlas S-2 locomotive from a collector. I don't have the box or any papers for it, but it's heavy as all heck and it says "made in Austria" on the bottom, if that's any indicator (?). There are two things I need to do to it: 1) put in a decoder (probably an...

Hi everyone, I am going to risk asking a stupid question: if one is using old Shinohara turnouts, and wants to wire for DCC, is all the turnout surgery really necessary (such as on the Wiring for DCC website)? I've searched and found posts that show people doing varying degrees of rail...

Hi Gauge members, First post, so please forgive all the lengthy exposition! While visiting my parents over the holidays, I dismantled my old 4x8 HO layout, packed it up in boxes and brought it back to CA to give to my 8-year-old sons (hence the handle). I have been reading tons of postings on...