It has been an interesting couple of weeks with very little progress being made on connecting the Humpyard cables to the turnouts.  Superficially it looked pretty simple but due to a combination of the benchwork height and a slowly healing knee injury it has proved to be pretty challenging. The documentation provided by the Humpyard folks quite decent, in my opinion.

Here's another idea for the super-foamers out there.  You know who you are...

Along with working air brakes, having a locomotive that is able to roll freely is an important part of being able to realistically model the way a real train is run.  The difference between that and a worm-driven model is fundamental, and affects a good deal of how we control and operate our layouts.

As I mentioned in another post, I have an idea for working train brakes on a model railroad.  To be really effective, it would be good to have an engine that can free-wheel and a DCC system that can handle dynamic braking and other such things, but that's another topic..

I'm moving my blogging from Blogger at http://garagerr.blogspot.com/ to here, as MRH has a built-in community of helpful readers. In short, I'm building a sectional shelf layout in N scale depicting the Boston and Maine in the transition era. 

Here are links to past posts on the old blog: