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Is there a website on the net somewhere that tells you how most railway equipment works?

I was wondering if many people use road bed through out the rail yard too. I have read were some people just sit the rails on the table for yards and sidings, and road bed under the mainland. If thats the best way to go, whats the best way to transistion from the road bed to table top without...

I was wondering how grade crossing signals were activated. Is it a block control thing or are switches placed on the rails? Thanks Nick

Broken Arrow, I like this one the best. Planes and trains and hummers. They show a stealth bomber. John Travolta, Air Force pilot hijacks the bomber he is flying and steals the nukes on board. Then uses hummers and then a train to move them across the west back to the east. Great movie.

It almost looks like the brown wire has came a loose from the 8 pin board maybe. I know on most of the decoders I have gotten with a 8 pin board only had the green and violet wires loose if it had them. The rest where hooked to the board. You may have to solder it back on or send it back.

Which decoder did you get. I have a couple of the MRC syncronized sound decoders the sereis right before the Brilliance, and they all came with a 8 pin DCC plug.

On line with the move goofs but off the trains, any one seen Million Dollar Baby? Clint Eastwood has a new Chevy Impala probably in a late 1970, 80's era. Watch closely and one of the gas stations they stop at have old style gas pumps back when leaded gasoline was around, and I don't beleive...

Has anyone tried to build snap(solenoid) switches? I use atlas turnouts and most of the ones I got came with the switches, but the custom #6 turnouts did not come with switches and they are not expensive, but were ever I can cut money I get to spend it on something else bigger. Thanks Nick

Im putting DCC into my locomotives. Most all of them need 680 ohm resistors for the 1.5V bulbs. My problem is that radio shack does not sell them and so far I can't find a place that sells small amounts of them(10-20). Most places sell a 100 at a time. I also need other compenents like micro...

I have been looking at Digitrax's Block detection and signaling devices. I was looking at the SE83C signaling decder and the BDL168 block detector. The SE8C says it is a signaling decoder plus a switch decoder. In the manual it only talks about slow motion switch machines and not soleniod (like...

I have the Athearn Genesis SD70M with a NCE decoder(DA-SR) in it. Im trying to hook up the lights in it. It also has ditch lights. I have 1.5V 30mA 1.2mm lights for front, rear and the ditch lights. I hooked them up with 470 ohm resistors and blew everyone. I hooked them up with 1k ohm resistors...

Where would be the best place to buy these signals either already wired up with lights or in kits that would be compatible with digitrax signaling. I know digitrax sells some but I think they are N scale and have to be modified for HO scale. Thanks Nick

Can any one tell me what type of signals Norfolk Southern uses along the old Norfolk Western lines. And can some one tell me about the Digitrax signaling and occupancy detector systems? What other companies have products for signaling and occupancy that work with Digitrax Loconet? Thanks Nick

I found some on Ebay, but they have almost tripled in price. I wonder if Walthers will bring it out of retirement anytime soon?

There was a website on the internet that a man had rigged a Walthers Rotary Dumper to actually work. He also made and sold rotary couplers out of Kadee #5 couplers. I emailed the email address on the website sometime ago and no answer. Does anyone know of this person or how to make the rotary...

Does anyone have the Walthers Rotary dumper? I want one on my layout, but they are retired. Has anyone heard of a possible date they migt make them again? Thanks.

Does any company make smoke units for either the Proto 2000 2-8-8-2 or the Bachman Spectrum Class J 4-8-4? Thanks Nick

Thanks, I think I might try to find it and see what I come up with.

Yeah, maybe something that combines them together or maybe I can just combine them together myself.

Who makes the best HO scale diesel fueling and sandng facilities kit? I have looked and found many different ones but I can mostly only find older looking facilities. Thanks Nick