Last week my 8 year old daughter bought her first N scale freight car with her own money. This week, my friend Joe D’Amato sent her TEN Micro Trains cars as a present. She has been looking at these cars wanting to switch them, but with the heat being over […]
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
Don’t know where these bolts came from, but they look good on the NCE plate
Finally finished the install
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
As you may have read, it appears that I messed up installing my first DCC decoder, by not insulating it properly from the frame. Dave at TCS was kind enough to inform me that the speed controller was burnt out due to a short. Not only did they send me […]
Wow, TCS is even better than I thought
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.