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Do you listen to it? I think it is great and look forward to the show every week. But I realized tonight that I have never seen a thread about it on this forum since I started coming regularly in January. This is what I am talking about if you don't know... http://modelrailcast.com/

Just picked up a Kato EMD SD40-2 and it ran fine for about 20 minutes, then just stopped. The lights are still working in forward and backward, but the engine no longer moves. My track is a simple oval of Kato Unitrack with a Kato powerpack...so DC.

It is in Columbus this week. I will be going on Saturday, is it a good show?

How does it work? I have noticed that none of the operations videos I have watched in N scale ever show the uncoupling, usually the video is spliced at that point. Are the magnets not very useful in N? Do you just do it by hand?

I would like to subscribe to a few Train Modeling magazines and I am looking for recommendations if you subscribe to any. Model Railroader seems like an obvious choice, but I wanted to know what this forum thought.

The more I learn, the more questions I seem to have. The biggest one seemed to be, what kind of layout do I do. But I think the Locomotive should be picked first, then everything else comes from it. At least that is how I am thinking now. How do you decide on what to do? It seems that...

Internet? Local Hobby Shops? Mix of both? I am finding selection and pricing locally quite varied. I prefer Brick and Morter shops, but have found some pricing to be a little high compared to the internet, I mean I expect it to be higher, but not ridiculously higher (+30% and more).