The biggest difference I'm aware of is the DB150 has no readback of CV ability. If it is used with a computer interface and a decoder programming...
You can use Digitrax hand held throttles with the Zephyr! You just need to purchase a UP5 throttle jack, and connect it to the loconet jack on...
Tony's does not use a relay. I've used both Tony's and MRC's and got rid of my MRC's they did not work reliably with my steam, tho they worked...
I leave track power on while wrapping the drops around the bus. This way the DCS100 will beep if I get one wrong. Gary
Alan, You did a really nice job on that tender! Yes the planks were wood. I guess the tender you have was taken from another loco as I don't...
Concerning reverse blocks and analog, I used two dpdt toggles. The first I labeled "digital/analog" and it is wired with the power leads coming...
I use the liquid and bought a small plastic bottle with a needle applicator, can place minute amounts easily. I recently bought soem of Micro...
I think perhaps rather than a polarity issue due to revese blocks you are concerned with polarity issues arising from turnouts placed frog to...
Actually the LO series decoders will eliminate the need to change bulbs or add resistors to at least the LifeLike locos, that is what they were...
Yeah Fitz, I'm glad they didn't pursue that! Gary
I'll second Fitz in that the stripes for both freight and diesel were the same. At least I've never read or heard otherwise. And I've read a...
I do the same as the others have stated, however I will often leave the cast on "spikes" on one side, the side which faces the aisle. Carve off...
Biggerhammer, I'm just finishing up such a bldg. I looked for commercial windows which matched and used their measurement to scale the rest of...
Thanks Darren, I had looked at RailImages "how to" but didn't see the option for full size and thumbnail it refered to as being above each image....
They're a piece of cake. Two wires in from your bus, and the two leads out to the block. Gary
On the left side I would use two reverse blocks. They would be the two parallel tracks which are loops and they would be the section on the...
Not sure why they came up as thumbnails. Here is one which shows the method I used for a "crown" [img]
Hi Alan, Here (hopefully) are shots of a concrete and an asphalt road. [img] [img]
I've used IR for several years and am happy with it. I do have two receivers to give me adaquate coverage. That's because I have a 19x25' layout...
Yes, it's all HO, that building is a Campbell Brewery. The loco in the 4th photo is an NYC L4 Mohawk, in photo 8, That loco belongs to a visitor...
