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Looking back, I've just noticed something that I should have told you about earlier. On your cab car, I noticed that you put a K5LA horn on it. All of MBTA's cab cars have the K3LA horn (3 horns instead of five)

All digitrax systems can run one DC engine (more than one if you desire but they will all run in the same diretion and in the same speed). All you need to do is run with the address 00

look at the ingredients. If it's denatured Ethanol (best to use a concentration of at least 80%) then it should be ok. Labs will have 95-99% pure denatured ethanol. Try the 70% isopropyl alcohol first. It will probably work just as well

umm, you should only program your loco on the programming track unless you were programming in Operations (ops) mode. With the Digitrax throttle, it should say Po in the middle (for the DT400) Leave it off the layout for a while and try resetting again. The decoder might be in thermal...

I like Rapido's coaches. They are very detailed and look really nice.

If you can find it, Chameleon is a very good hobby paint stripper. However, the company that make Chameleon is out of buisness so good luck finding it. My LHS has 3 bottles left and they're $20 each. Not the best deal in my opinion.

Broadway Limited uses their own decoders (sometimes they use QSI and Loksound too) Their site has the sound samples. http://www.precisioncraftmodels.com Soundtraxx's site for their Tsunami decoders has sound samples for their steam decoders. I don't remember the site, but it shouldn't be too...

Well, I don't know the specifics. The club I belong to bought the layout from a club that decied to move. It's a very large layout divided into 4 blocks. Whenever something shorts out and/or the layout reboots itself as a result of the short, the engines with the TCS decoders take off. I...

The Model Power MetalTrain products are ok... but they are way too heavy. When did Varney go out of buisness?

In my experience, TCS decoders do not like the Digitrax Super Chief system down at the club. Any and all engines with TCS decoders run away even after being dispatched from the system.

Did the boxcar come with body mounted couplers or did you have to mount a new coupler pocket yourself?

I bought a Walthers F40PH on ebay from a guy who doesn't normall sell trains. He advertised it as brand new. When it came, the plow was already broken off! I gave him a positive feedback because it still ran, but he wasn't happy that I told him that it wasn't brand new! He didn't leave me...

couldn't they just throw a grenade at the rail line and blow up the ties and derail the rail tank? Or... run over the rails with a real tank :mrgreen:

The club that I belong to has 3 types of turnouts, Peco, Shinohara, and Atlas. The switch points on the Atlas have a hard time staying still. The Pecos are the best and give no problems. The Shinoharas that the club has are total junk because they don't have an insulated frog so plastic rail...

how old is your decoder? The older ones had problems with the super chief, but the new ones should not. I know how to do it with the DT400 throttle, but not the other ones. put the loco on the programming track, plug in the throttle and hit PROG and use the left throttle to select AD4. It...

open the shell and add weight over the truck

huh? I've had sound units with dc units one in front of the other and nothing happened. As long as I don't try to MU them. nothing gets harmed.

I haven't used power cab before so I can't answer your questions about power cab. It all depends on the decoder. Regular decoders are address, lights, speed, and direction only. Most if not all sound decoders taht you can buy and install are sound only and interface with a regular decoder for...

A Z scale decoder will be ok with the 44 tonner? Do I have to add resisters to the bulbs? what if I want to add LEDs in the future?

The coupler is working, it's not drooping and it is centering itself... sort of. The whiskers don't seem to be doing a good job of centering the coupler although it does work and can move side to side. I'm primarily using them in athearn blue box engines with the clip. I also have a bachmann...