Finally bought and installed a RailPro from Don Sweet at rcsofne.com was a pretty easy install after he walked me through turning it into a PNP. Sound, battery power R/C. It sounds and runs great. Here’s a link to a short video https://youtu.be/k6pPqgBAVfU Thanks Jason  

Anyone have any suggestions for a decoder to put into an LGB 2063?  It's an older model, motor block is stamped 1998, so I'm assuming I'll need to do the usual disassemble-and-separate between the motor block and pickups, that seems to be common in the older LGB locos.     I'm looking for a decent decoder with sound, and the ability to control a couple of servos for uncouplers.  I know next to nothing about DCC decoders (except some plug-n-play ones in N-scale I've pla...

I added a "whistle" module to my Accucraft live steam Countess. It's a little electronic device from RCS that plugs in to a spare channel on the receiver. You just add a speaker. I used a $4 Radio Shack 1" speaker with the bottom of a pill bottle as an enclosure. The first part of the video shows the drag/inertia car in use. Results are inconclusive.     I am conversing with Tony at RCS about a US version with a big 3-chime whistle sound. My PRR K4 needs it! One aspect is the "ec...

My grandson likes to disassemble computers and salvage parts. He had a couple of LEDs and wanted to know if we could use them on my railroad. We got together and put them on a Hartland Mighty Mack as marker lights on the roof. We wired them so forward was the front headlight (which we had converted to an LED) and green LED; reverse is the rear white light (LED) and red LED. Test: The problem is that whichever LED is supposed to be off blinks. In the video below, note that the green LED in on ...