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Bye Bye to the Northern California Consolidated

Well, this is the beginning of the blog to track my progress of an N-scale endeavor.

Three road names of Western Pacific, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe.

As you can see the pics show the layout as a round the room...the duck under was low enough that my dear wife whacked her head three times in a row in less than a 5 minute time span, no joke.  So I, yes I, decided to move it, because it was built to move, to the garage for a while.

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ATLAS selector

I know this sounds basic but how do i wire an atlas selector? a schemeatic would be nice, thanks in advance

What's Inside a Bachmann Power Pack?

We've all seen them, we've all used them, and many still use them all around the layout, even after going DCC.  

It's the ubiquitous Brick the power pack we all know but rarely mention as anything more than a bench tester, power for a bus line, or simply a good chuck against the wall!

So just WHAT IS the Bachmann Wallwart?

Benny takes you inside...

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Singlet Servo DCC Accessory Decoder and Fast Tracks three way turn out

Ok here is a question I am not sure how to do.  I have a Fast tracks 3 way turnout that I plan to Tam Valley Depots Singlet servo to control.  This product has LED that help with route ID but in a three way turn out you use 2 Singlet to control the turnout.  Is there any way to have the LEDs light up or turn green for the route that both set of points are aligned for.  I am sure this can be done I am just at a blank on how to do this.

Mike Deverell

Colorado & Coyote Creek

Locomotive buzzing

I've just finished installing PSX circuit breakers on my layout and have noticed that my locos are now buzzing when the system is on and the locos are sitting idle. I ran a few locos for testing purposes before I installed the breakers and this problem did not exist - the locos were silent in an idle position. Has anyone experienced this?

Location of resistor with LED's

Quick question.  When using a resistor with an LED, can the resistor go on the cathode side or the anode side?  I've got some 3 lead bi-color led's and it could save me some resistors if the resistor can go on the common cathode.

Thanks,

John


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