Layout design
Newbie Question on DCC
Hi there, I'm scratching my head here trying to figure how to wire my layout. I'm building a DCC layout and am trying to figure how to wire up the red track. See attached pic... It is sort of a loop I guess and the polarity does not match on both ends.
Can anyone shed some light? Thanks for any help you can provide...
Denis.
"Derra North" - An improbable ultimate layout
Hi all,
This blog is about "Derra North" - the Unanderra North Junction on the South Coast Line of NSW Australia, It is perhaps my "ultimate layout" that will almost certainly never be built.
Previously I'd written on another thread
Liftgate for modules at shows
I would to hear from you that have been involved with the construction of lift-gate modules for shows. We display at the Champlain Valley Fair, Essex Jct. VT for 10 days the week before Labor Day. This a combined effort of the Northwestern Vermont Model RR and the Green MT div of the NMRA. Would like to hear about your experience and a possible and photo of your lift-gate or ones you have seen. The loop is the NWV and the stub on the end is Bellows Falls, VT module of the Greenmountain Division of the NMRA. My goal is to build a lift-gate for this year.
A&C Layout Update
Doing the article for MRH put some more motivation in me to get some work done on the layout. I've been spending a lot of time lately on getting cars and locomotives built, detailed and weathered. I'll be at the N Scale Convention in Salt Lake City in a few weeks displaying models and entering them in the contest. When I need a break from that, I've been working on backdrops and getting the Blythe Branch operational.
Fess up: what is the worst planning mistake you have actually built?
There's an active thread lamenting the tendency of beginners to over stuff layouts. There are also discussions about the evils of helices, double deck layouts, tight aisles and a plethora of other sins.
Most of this is theoretical though, criticisms of proposed layouts. I am interested in hard facts-- what planing decision did you make, build and regret later? It's OK to confess to common pitfalls, as duplicate disasters show how prevalent a problem is.
So is the Tymesaver really all that hard to work on?
Layout Planning and common sense
Has common sense left the layout planning process?
All too often I see layouts being planned and built that are way too grandiose for the size of the room. Staging for hundreds of cars and rolling stock that could never be run in any reasonable operating session. Poor access to rear areas of the bench work, tight bottlenecks between layout boards.
Does anyone have an electric liftup that is simple
Has anyone made or done a electric lift up. Can you show a pic and tell us how this is possible. Is it reasonably cheap? Is there already a product out there etc. Solving he doorway entrance to the train room.
Regards James
Eastern California V2.0 Update #6
Progress on version 2.0 of our Eastern California layout has continued and we are now on to the second phase, or the middle portion of the run from San Diego to Seattle. Geographically this is northern California and southern Oregon. I was particularly excited to get to the Feather River portion which includes a compressed Keddie Wye:
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