Recent content by AyTrane

On my previous layout I used the champion meat packing plant as my part of my brewery and the DPM Terra Surplus Window Warehouse as the bottling plant. The cattle chutes that come with the packing plant were repurposed for moving product from one building to the other via conveyor (and piping...

FYI, USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, which is why you have to choose a Serial Port. Not like the serial ports from back in the day fortunately!

Everyone looks like they are having fun this week! All I have been doing is organizing and speed matching...

Wunderlands display is even more incredible in person! I have three faller vehicles so far, a truck, a pickup, and a van; I like them. I plan to get more in the future, but they are at least $100/ea. The novilty is fun, but I probably could have done without them. Designing roads that are...

I've never found programming CVs on the MRC system tedious. Once you're in CV mode, you can go to town, probably faster than it takes to boot up the computer (not that they don't each have their pluses and minuses). That being said, I don't know what benefit a stand alone programmer has if you...

Back when the E6's were made, it probably would have been delivered in the Halloween scheme, however Daylight probably would have been more appropriate. I like the Scarlet and Lark schemes, and felt like painting it along with the SD7s. As I was looking through the Proto box, I noticed this...

I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday experience. I don't expect too much from this thread over the next week, but I'll throw in what I've been working on. Over the last couple weeks I have been painting and decaling two SD7's and an E6 into the SP blood nose scheme. All three are Proto 2000...

Been working on the helix. This wasn't necessary for operation, but will give me the option to run continuous loops rather than point to point. I wasn't happy with how much room a helix took up, so never incorporated one in my plan two years ago when I started the layout, so it's sort of...

Yes, 128 is a standard value. For example, if you wanted to program two locomotives to a consist address of 10, but one running forward and the other reverse, you would set CV19 to a value of "10" on the first unit, and a value of "138" on the second unit. If both units were to run forward, they...

I've always had issues with hopper cars. It could have just been the perfect storm of events that caused the derailment. If it isn't repeatable, I wouldn't worry about it too much unless it happens again.

Mmmm, Boysenberry.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, and that you found some time to play with the trains. I did a little painting this week.

Nice work everyone! I'll keep this thread rolling. More work on the peninsula; this time focusing on the lumber camp.

Wow, that layout is huge. It's like a big bowl of spaghetti, but at least it is well built and the track seems to serve a purpose. It make for a fun operating session!

Hit them with a light coat of primer first and they should.