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I finished up some of the other projects I had going now it time to finish up Georgetown north's building and track work. I have the street and building all arranged the next step is street and building lights. George

I posted this thread a while ago but recently learned some problems with the installation. I bought a 2 Scale Trains loco with Lok Sound decoders. I love the locos but the factory installed Keep Alive doesn't seem too adequate. It may keep everything powered for maybe a 1/2 second if the loco...

More progress on my 3D caboose project. More railing and grab irons to install plus the coupler and air hose. George

Other than some detailing on the coaling, sanding towers and adding some fueling stations for the freight engines my engine servicing facility is almost complete. I also need to buy some end of track bumpers or make some. I did not what to commit a large area of the layout for this purpose, so I...

I tried to create a method of joining code 100 to code 83 before that didn't work out very well but after watching a video on the subject this time it works. I just changed a few things in the video. The video says file down the code 100 track until just a small portion is left. Then he says to...

I decided the twin deck girders from my build back better project should be placed here in the structures and building forum. There's a few more items that need to be added, that is railing, lights for the concrete car bridge, swampy water, cattails, concrete weathering, more chain link fencing...

Not to be associated with other build back plans. There's no borrowing money with this plan. Over the years I transformed my double main upper and lower deck layout to a signal track railroad. It's a long story how this came about but last month I tried to change it back. It wasn't working out...

These are the NH C425 engines I changed over to Lok Sound decoders. Their coming out of the engine house yard and on to their awaiting train. If you notice the split in the round house benchwork section it comes apart in case I move some day. George

So a while back I was working on some wiring under my layout and my screw driver hit my Logic Rail grade crossing pro module shorting it out ruining both boards. I learned my lesson don't have the power on when working on live wiring. With all my other projects finished I decided to call Logic...

The other day I installed a 21 pin Lok Sound decoder on a 21 pin TCS WOW mother board. A friend of mine decided to do the same but had some problems with the installation. He called Lok Sound and they told him the mating will work but do not try to download a new sound into the decoder while...

I finally finished up my 21 pin Lok Sound decoder installation mated up with a TCS WOW AK_MB1 mother board. Nothing is in the shell. I tried to be as neat as possible. The loco is one of 3 in a consist so I didn't bother with a rear headlight. It never get used. It sounds great. I swapped out...

I was wandering has anyone bought one of these boards? They seem to adopt a 8 pin decoder to a 21 pin mother board. I have some TCS 21 pin mother boards and would like to plug in a Lok Sound 8 pin decoder into it. George

Now that my bridge & control panel projects are finished I turned to finishing my back drop. Most of it is all ready done but there's still lots to do. I start with a posted board I bought at the dollar store. There only 0.50 cent per board there. Then I buy the paint at Michaels 0.88 cent per...

If you don't have software to create a layout plan and wish to show others your work. You can use the paint program that comes with Windows to do this. I used it to create the plan for my control panel. It takes a little thinking but it's easy once you get the hang of it. George

So after my bridge projects got done and new switches and switch control motors were added it was time to add toggle switches. That meant getting under the layout sitting on the floor and added them to my control panel. Then I thought there's more switches coming in the future so maybe I should...

I was looking at some prototype bridge walkways when I found this video of bridge after bridge after bridge across the Mississippi river. Your on the back of the train great view. If you like bridges click on the link below. George

I've been stalling on adding a reverse loop to my lower deck for some time. I needed one that reverses at least a 80 car train. These are the trains that come down from the helix and need to be reverse so they can head back to the upper deck if needed. Since the spot I picked was one of my old...

I just found this out tonight. I was testing out my reverse loop with a few engines. That is running them through the neutral area then removing them form the track when I noticed the locos with a Lok Sound decoders didn't run as long TCS locos when removed. I thought maybe the installed TCS...

I'm finally getting around to installing a AR unit so I can reverse my trains after coming off my signal track helix. My old helix had double tracks so there was no need for a AR unit, but because of the NY hurricane that flooded my basement about 7 years I needed to move my helix and when I did...