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You forgot woodworking, miniture painting, electronics, drafting, scetching, surveying, tinkering, and fending off rabid flamingos!

Well, to be more specific, the couplers on the trucks they came with are incompatable, and molded to the trucks. I've got spare trucks, but the rolling stock itself is incompatable with those.

AMEN! I'm modeling a purely fictional railroad, so whether any one actual railroad ever had all the gear I'm running doesn't matter. But staying in period does, and has resulted in only one 'unusable' locomotive, bought for me as a gift before I'd managed to really get myself entrenched in my...

My original suggestion pretty much went out the window as unneccisary somewhere around the bottom of page one. :lol: From there, it's been mostly a matter of trying to solve an (unneccisary) engineering problem. Big Jim: I wouldn't think I'd need a dead track more than perhaps a quarter of an...

Okay, there's now a large, screened over hole in my layout, and several white bands where I've put plastercloth and waterputty over the old plywood seams. In other words, it currently looks pretty bad, but I should be able to do most of the neccisary work by this weekend. Unfortunately, in my...

I've got two DCC equipped mainline engines, and one DC equiped switcher. Not to worry, my controller has DC capability for one engine! Anyhow, that one DC engine can be a bit 'noisy' sometimes, and one of my mainline engines will occasionally take off at full speed if the switcher is on the...

Not at all! :D I'm a firm believer in keeping things as simple as practical, although I do on occasion over-engineer certain projects. Sometimes though, the simplest solution isn't the best. In other cases, while the simplest solution may work, something else involving a bit more effort may...

I suppose anyone with a walkaround controller could follow thier train from one setup to the next, provided there are connection points available one both sides of the track. Of course, then you get three people trying to drive trains in a set-up that really does seem kind of silly, so unless...

One thing I've never really cared much for on my layout has been the far end in the top picture. The double mainline takes a 90' turn, goes about three feet, then does another 90' turn, allowing that toylike looping appearance. At the far end of the layout, it isn't much of a problem, since...

I think you just inspired me to add a lake, though there's no allowance for one on my current layout. unless...

actually, I think you just inspired a much better idea of how to do this. A double pull, double throw relay to select the decoder, and a set of sensors fed into an automatic reverse loop mechanism to drive the relay. with that, the only thing you have to worry about is whether each loco's...

okay, just so I don't leave everyone with the impression I'm either being stubborn or trying to pick a fight, here's what I had in mind for the isolation section... *note* if you're using a very high quality DC supply, you'll want inductors on both DC feeds. (big ones!) The isolation section...

I wouldn't want to feed DC into a DCC system, because the filtering on the DC side would act as a short to the DCC, thus endangering the DCC side. However, that problem is easily overcome with an inductor. I wouldn't want to link one DCC system directly across from another, because I know...

Experimentation is complete. My first loco handled it fine, but needed more current to keep it moving at decent speed. My second loco took the sudden lack of an input signal as an order to stop, and began slowing. My third loco handeled everything just fine, although I'm concerned it may...

Well, I just did some expierimenting to test my own theory, and the answer appears to be YES! Although it's possible that not all decoders will play nice. I want to run all DCC, but I may wish to run two or more independant DCC systems. The idea of a DC section is just to isolate the signals...

DCC works great for my layout as is, and this question doesn't even apply, unless... I've given previous consideration to the idea of expanding my layout into one or two new sections. More accurately, one or two entirely new layouts, with just enough interconnecting track to really make things...

hmm... I'm running steam power, so I guess I'm pre-Amtrac, which means any passenger service I run is owned by my own railroad. Let's see, I guess I can run my passenger trains at whatever priority I want!

Also note, sometimes different railroads order the same locomotive with different 'options'. Probrably one of the more visable differences will be in cab designs.

I'll admit I have NO expieriance with detachable sections in N-scale, as I have enough problems with the permanant stuff lining up. However, I might advise you against anything with potentially catostrophic consequences from an unexpected visitor. "Hey Honey, did you..." *CRASH*

Well, if we're going for precision, then I guess I can put taller buildings on my N-scale layout, so it's more like 6.22 times as much. But that's still only about twice as much track. :rolleyes: