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Welcome aboard The Gauge! Nice to have you here! You say you are building a small layout, but mention having 5 - 4x8 boards? That isn't small!:mrgreen:

I'm located south of Houston out Highway 288 near Highway 6, just south of the town of Manvel.

Exactly! Kurt is giving me low self-esteem.:cool:

Welcome to The Gauge, DoctorG. Great to see that you have a plan and are making progress. Thank you for sharing! Keep us posted on your work.

I held my first open house in conjunction with the San Jacinto Model Railroad Club Fall Layout tour over the weekend. There were about 85 different layouts on tour in the Houston area. I wasn't sure how many people would visit me, due to my location south of Houston, plus the weather had turned...

Dang it, Kurt, you do such fantastic work. That is gorgeous!

Even jumping from the train seems deadly, in that you would have rolling stock coming from both directions with possible derailments and the cars could end up even with the engine if not past it.

I like the second photo with the building in the back. Glad to see more progress, Loren. Keep up the good work.

The force behind a collision like this just boggles my mind. Thousands of tons of metal at speed = astonishing kinetic energy. At least it wasn't a direct head-on. Still, what a disaster. Do all most locos have a camera onboard these days?

Good to hear you joined a club. Keep us posted about the club's operating scheme and how everything goes. Also, please post some pics if you get the chance, and let the other members know about The Gauge.

Doh!! :eek: Guess I should pay more attention.:rolleyes:

If you are talking about "Paint" that comes with MicroSoft Windows, can't you save the file as a bitmap or a .jpg file?

Errr..... kevin..... I'm kinda worried about ya. The hobby of model railroading is typically beset with minor problems on a day to day basis. There is always something to go wrong or require adjustment or cleaning. And if you have a temper, and like to throw things, I just hope it isn't a...

According to the Digitrax Decoder Manual, Configuration Variable 29 controls the direction of the loco. The factory default for CV29 is 006. If you change this to 007, the loco should run in the other direction. CV29 also controls several other things. Go to the Digitrax website and you...

Exactly. The reverse loop and the rest of the track will need seperate buses. One is fed by the reverse loop module, one is fed normally.

:mrgreen:Very nice, DocWayne!:mrgreen:

kooter, concerning your use of DC, how many trains do you plan to run at the same time? Just one? Or more than one? This will affect the way you wire your layout for DC. Once we know this, we can give you some pointers for wiring.

Hey Kevin, so how is the track laying going? You get those curves done?

I don't see any reason not to do what you are describing.:thumb:

You are talking about programming the CV for starting voltage? I can't speak for the actual decoder that you have, but on the digitrax decoders I use, the start voltage CV can be set between 0 and 255 where 0 equals 0 volts and 255 equals maximum volts. To figure the actual voltage, you would...