Anyone looking for a DCC set up? This sounds like a good deal Chris ... _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 Dial-up...
We had a spammer join this group. He's been deleted as well as his file. I changed our membership so that all new members have to be approved, by me, before...
Dec 2 Planning Committee meeting Dec 4 Business meeting Dec 9 Work night Dec 11 Operating session Dec 16 Work night Dec 18 Operating session Dec 19 – Jan 2...
Jan 3-4 Greenberg Show, Virginia Beach Jan 6 Work night Jan 8 Business meeting - Nominations Jan 13 Work night Jan 15 Operating session Jan 21 Work night Jan...
Feb 3 Work night Feb 5 Business meeting - Elections Feb 10 Work night Feb 12 Operating session Feb 17 Work night Feb 19 Annual dinner @ ???? Feb 25 Work night...
Starting Thursday, the 11th, we'll be running with a dispatcher. We'll be doing this till the Open House on May 1st & 2nd. We need to get comfortable with...
June 3 Business meeting June 10 Regular dispatcher operations June 17 Regular dispatcher operations June 24 Regular dispatcher operations with waybill...
I've added a file folder (Files section) that has information for waybill switching. It has a list of the colors used on the waybill tabs for each town. I've...
I am trying to teach myself to solder. I have a pencil style iron and rosin core solder. My attempts so far involve trying to solder rail joints and has seen...
First piece of advice is to tin the rail first and thes wire before attempting the connection. Then place the tinned wire against the tinned section of rail...
Ralph, I've been out of town, so I'm slow in responding. Here's my rambling $.02 worth: First the items being soldered have to be clean. A Q-tip and alcohol...
I picked up a Walthers doodlebug a few months ago (at Paul's suggestion) with the idea of repainting and relettering it. Before painting, I took it all apart...
I installed an NCE decoder in my doodlebug today. I've added two more pictures to the doodlebug album. The first shows the bug with the decoder installed but...
Thank you to those who posted advice about soldering. I am now in the process of soldering all the rail joints in my 4X8 pike. Thanks for the help. Ralph...
Ralph, Don't solder all the rail joints, just those on the curves. You need to allow for track expansion and contraction. Soldering on the curves prevents...
Hello Gene, Harry, George,Eric and all. Going to be in Virginia the first weekend in August Any chance that anyone will be at the layout Friday or Saturday ...
Here's the operations schedule for the next four months: August - Running trains under dispatcher control. September - Transition era waybills operations. Any...
Hello Everyone, I added a new folder called Signals. The folder has pictures of our new operating signals. I will be adding more pictures of the signals as I...