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This, unfortunately, is an instance where you MUST mock it up and do trials. Trains trailing behave differently from trains shoving...

Wow, look at all them handlaid turnouts!! :p I use the same system and have used several of them on consecutive layouts. They are...

I prefer around-the-room because I'm always looking at scenery behind the tracks. I paint a backdrop, then build the benchwork to suit...

Any plaster will work, even wall patching compound if you have some lying around and you'd love to put it to use. Just make darned...

It depends on your girth, or butt size if that helps. Most older male adults would be happy with about 28", give or take a coupla...

This is an unanswerable question as it stands. We don't know the room you have for a layout, what track configuration you're using...

If there is a grade there, it is a typical gradual railway slope. Maybe 1.6%, but it's hard to tell since the video doesn't show much...

I don't have any. That's my self-imposed penalty for crappy track-laying. It forces me to contend practically with poor trackage. I...

In order to ensure better contact with the rails, I would make both the locomotive and the tender considerably heavier. Tenders...

Modern decoders since about 2005 have all been 'dual mode' so that they could claim that they comply with NMRA specifications for DCC...

Playground sand is not very costly, and you can always use the other 90% of what comes in the store-bought 40 pound bag for leveling...

We can't/shouldn't answer this for you. This hobby, like all hobbies, is intensely emotional and personal, and is intended to help YOU...

Honestly, every time I introduce a new locomotive to the layout, diesel or steam makes no difference, the newcomer finds a small section...

We need to know what 'loses power' means. Do the engines just stall, does the system beep and cut off track power...what? I think it...

The phase conflict is verbotten for all things electrical. It creates a short which allows full circuit amperage to course through the...