Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroad Hobbyist 2019-07
Articles Listing

Publisher's Musings

The author shares his progress of dismantling his current layout.

What's Neat

Using roots from bushes as tree roots on the layout. A visit to Gulliver's Gate museum in New York. How to do advanced consisting with Soundtraxx' decoders.

Simple Block Detector

A simple circuit that connects to an Arduino or other device to detect block-occupancy on a DCC-powered layout. Has a sidebar on other block-occupancy detectors.

Rob Spangler's Western Pacific 8th Sub

Done in an interview style. The article includes a track plan, many photos, and the author's commentary sprinkle in as sidebars.

Wireless Video from an RDC-2

The author describes how he selected and installed a transmitter/receiver pair and a tiny CMOS color video camera to show the engineer's view of the locomotive running on their club layout to visitors.

First Look

The author reviews the East Coast Circuits' Crossing Signal Circuit #501. Also reviewed is the ScaleTrains.com SD40T-2 tunnel motor.