Looking for comments on your success in installing resistors on rolling stock. The "system" we are using at our club involves a lot of steps prone to ending up with useless or damaged resistors.

On our club layout at times we get a lot of static shocks from touching the track the UP5 when plugging in the controller even off eachother. Not sure what the problem is, could it be our digitrax system , our flooring (interlocking rubber matting) which we have run wires to a good earth. All to no availe. Last Sunday we had our bimonthly operating session when you kept hearing loud cracks and someone going yow!  I am looking for ideas on what we could do to try to stop it. 

Thanks in advance Neil 

Hi guys,

now that several of my engines are finally converted to DCC, I want to try the consisting. Step one should be having all engines of one type with the same behaviour at the throttle and capped at their prototypical max. speed. In order to achieve this, I needed a speedometer.

After trying several webpages on this matter, I finally came across this one:

https://www.lokschuppen-dominik.de/Spur%20H0/Bastelanleitungen/Geschwind...

I’ve been impressed with the value of the Proto2000 (P2K) GP-7/9/18/20 series since they began coming out in the late 1990’s.  For between $40-70, you can get a great running diesel locomotive with just a little bit of elbow grease.  I recently looked on eBay and found over 40 GP9s for sale, and even more GP7s.  These are readily available at train shows as well.