Comments on: TRACK TALK LIVE: May 2018

By: daveineden

daveineden — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 23:54:39 +0000

In reply to Rich. Hi Rich, I,m 75 years old and have been playing with trains for as long as I can remember. My suggestion is to go with what ever you like the best. Just get started. The rest will just happen.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 24 May 2018 20:40:54 +0000

Probably too late, but clarification: 190 feet of track, the layout is 17 ft x 20 ft, and – based on advice from Tony’s Trains – I used two-conductor speaker wire to avoid the impedance loss of separate main bus wires.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 24 May 2018 20:34:25 +0000

Doug,
I’m recycling my old HO layout to On30 and am planning on ripping up my peco switches and track to relay them to a new track plan. The have been ballasted and painted. Suggestions.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 24 May 2018 20:29:30 +0000

Considering COSTS … what is the least expansive way to do automated crossing grade gates via Optical sensor or Infared sensors ???

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 24 May 2018 20:20:01 +0000

I am building an HO layout powered with NCE’s PowerPro DCC system. I have 7 power districts, but one has about half of the 190′ of track in the entire layout. To route power to the whole district, I will have 6 leads that branch out such that no one branch is a run more than 30 ft of 14AWG wire as the main bus. Track wires drop 12” – 18 ” from every piece of NiS track (mostly FlexTrack) to connect to the main bus. According to all the literature I can find, this should be an acceptable wiring plan as long as no run from the 5 amp DCC power source is longer than 30′. Do you agree?

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 24 May 2018 20:09:11 +0000

Anyone have experience using MRC’s new light genie product and can it be used to power track side signals ?

By: WILLIAM

WILLIAM — Thu, 24 May 2018 19:50:56 +0000

Is it OK to solder HO Kato track together if you leave some gaps along the way?

By: George

George — Thu, 24 May 2018 19:13:00 +0000

I’m looking for a traction motor for a older Bachmann 4-6-4 locomotive. Looks almost round and stands upright.

By: JOHN

JOHN — Mon, 14 May 2018 15:31:58 +0000

I am Building HO model railroad buildings from Styrene and I like to have some plans to go by not copy them. Is there a Web Site that you know of where i can get some free plans to build HO scale Buildings

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 14 May 2018 11:38:33 +0000

Thinking about getting my first train set. What size track/train should I go with? I’m 75 years old but have always since a child wanted to build a train layout.