John

Went to Arnie’s trains in Westminster, CA yesterday. The detailer in me was happy since I was able to find SP light package details.  The father in me was happy to see my 8 year old daughter pick out her first freight car.  This Lehigh Valley 40 footer is a […]

Hobby shop finds

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I went to Michael’s today and bought a 2b pencil, and “drew” on about 8 inches of rail. I ran my loco over it a few times, repeated the application, ran down a siding, and kept repeating until all rails were ran down at least twice. With DCC, and the […]

Tried something different

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Last week I sent in my TCS CN-GP decoder for warranty after letting out the factory smoke. They are not only replacing the decoder with a new one, they also informed me that the issue was a short that fried the speed controller.

Got to love TCS…

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I have been trying to figure out different CV’s. Today I got the Mars light effect to work! but it was for the rear light, and I set it per TCS for front only. I put the decoder in backwards! the other issue is that the loco runs in reverse, […]

more DCC lessons

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