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I just bought two Proto 2000 GP7s with DCC and sound on board. VERY NICE locos. However, when they were packed in China, they were placed very tight into the styro form with false coupler shanks to hold the locos solid. Unfortunately, they were so tight that the rear platforms are now...

Firefox is the BEST! I have been on it for about five years. You will get far fewer if any viruses using Firefox versus IE also. Eric

Rob, The festival is well worth the drive. Activities are at the rail museum as well as at the CP/VIA station itself. CP is supposed to have a loco there (AC4400??) for folks to walk through. Plus there will be operating layouts at a nearby hall and the usual dealers selling stuff related to...

DCC sound shut-down Deano, Great stuff. I tried the F8 function and alls nice and quiet again. I have an older Digitrax that only supports up to 8 functions. You are bang on correct in that the sound is fabulous. Never heard it before yesterday and am absolutely stunned by it. It has...

Fellas, I have just acquired a Proto 2000 GP7 with DCC and sound on board. Fabulous looking unit and GREAT sound. The problem I have is how do I shut down, to quiet mode, the loco when I am done operating for a bit? With my Digitrax DCC I can easily stop running it but with the sound unit...

digitrax throttle question Both good bits of info. I suspect I have reprogrammed the throttle to 28 speed steps instead of the original 128??!! Thanks for the help and info. Eric

The bristol board covered in masking tape and then painted 'grimy black' worked great for slight (<1/4") transitions. However, I now have transition to feed elevated track from roadbed to the coal track leading to the coaling tower. This transition is about a 1" rise. I shall use the rigid...

Dt 300 throttle Okay, I think I get it. I shall recheck to see what speed step is programed as well as the balastic setting, etc. Both of these checks will be somewhat difficult for me as a novice but shall check. When I stated about turning the throttle, in both cases it was a slow steady...

track elevation change thanks fellas. Good ideas all. I appreciate the input as always. Eric

Fellas, I am in the process of building my layout. I have several sections of track on elevated main line roadbed that will run into an engine service area as well as a small mine site that are not on roadbed. I have made several graduated ramps out of what we call bristol board in Canada (it...

Fellas, Some months ago when I first started using my Dt300, I thought that every click on the throttle adjusted the speed by about 1-2%. Now I notice that each click varies by 3-6% and sometimes more. Can you explain to me why this is or what has happened? Is it something to do with the...

2-8-0 sound problem Andrew, Thanks so much but I went to Cornwall the other night for the Mohawk meeting (great group of guys) and Jacques T told me my problem was likely that I had not put the speaker in any kind of sound box. He says that without this box, the speaker will NOT provide any...

Fellas, As per my earlier description of the short problem with the Spectrum 2-8-0, it has been a long haul but the solution was eventually solved, I think. I returned it to the retailer to get his opinion on what was wrong. They found nothing and said it ran fine on both DC and DCC (with...

double xover Looks like a great idea and we need something for the Algoma and Rideaus 2xx. But what are you using for the four pivot end pieces? They look like some kind of porcelain device? Eric

There really was no fix other then reading the manuals better, and operating the throttle more and more until I could figure it out. It was an operator problem and not an equipment issue (did I mention I also had a polarity issue due to a crossed wire). The good news is the DCC is up and...

Thanks Roger, I think we are on to something here!

Today, I placed the loco back on DC track and it runs great. However, when replaced onto DCC track it immediately indicates a short !! I then disconnected the DCC plug from loco to tender with the same results! Before taking it appart, I have just written Bachmann for their opinion on this...

great info. I shall check it out. Many thanks

Gary, The loco shorts the DCC section(s) where ever it is placed including the reverse loops!! This loco has not even had its DCC decoders installed yet, even though I have connected the wires and plugs from the loco to the tender. Since it ran great on DC why the sudden change when we...

Fellas, I hope you don't mind me posting regular (daily) questions in this forum but I am trying to get our new layout up and running on Digitrax DCC and we are having problems. Todays question is this. Before we hooked up the DCC we made sure the layout ran ok on DC except for the reverse...