How to install resistors on your wheelsets
Making your own
Throttle cord assembly
How to operate
hand ground throws
How to uncouple using a bamboo skewer
DCC Decoder Function
Resistor Calculator
CV 29 explained -
what this complicated CV does, and how NCE makes it easy
Car Inspection Standards
Original Operations Manual for Wangrow System One DCC Command
Station
Updated
pages for latest version of System One Command Station
How DCC works - a
simplified explanation by Loy Spurlock
Other Technical Ideas on the net that have potential
application on APN's layout
Dwarf Signals From Styrene
Manual Ground Throws: Power Routing Your Frogs Mounting
Tortoise Switch machine ideas:
Offset linkage for a Tortoise I
Offset linkage for a Tortoise II (towards bottom of the
page)
Alternate linkage
Adapter Plate Operating scale switch stands
This design linked
directly to Tortoise - 4 animations at this page showing one
in action
This design linked to throwbar Operating model railroad layout to put in the window of our
scale hobby shop at Burnito
See one
in action
How to build it
Homemade cable guides to keep layout wiring neat and tangle
free
Links to other technical tips of merit
Adding electrical pickup to axles I
Adding electrical pickup to axles II
Adding electrical pickup to axles III
Adding electrical pickup to axles VI
Adding electrical pickup to axles V |