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I have a mix of Atlas and Kato locos. They are relatively new...bought my first one a couple of years ago and my newest ones 2 weeks ago. At what point should I put a little lubricant on those little gears at the bottom of the wheels? I run my locos fairly often...I operate them all at least 2...

I have the MRC Prodigy Express system for my layout and am contemplating getting a loco with a Digitrax decoder installed. Will that work?

Anybody have experience with the Bachmann N Scale Spectrum CHESAPEAKE & OHIO 2-6-6-2 Steam Locomotive? I'd like to have at least one steam loco for my layout just because and this one is available. Is it reliable? Does it run smoothly? Your thoughts please. Also.....what are your opinions...

What are the proper CV#'s for restoring factory settings on my Kato loco using MRC DCC ? Thanks in advance.

Will a DCC equipped loco run on standard DC power?

Will a locomotive with DCC on board run on a track powered by conventional DC power?

F I n a l l y got all of my track work done and everything runs perfectly on all parts of my layout. I can reliably run my trains with no derailments or other track related problems. Whew! Now I'm looking at starting to add some scenery to the whole thing and am wondering about the first step...

Got a new loco....a Kato AC4400CW unit and the matching MRC decoder. It does "drop in" as advertised. Easy enough. Took it to my layout, programmed the road number, works like a charm. Until.... i put the body back on, went to run it again, and...nothing. Removed the body and saw that the...

Which manufacturers besides Kato use steel wheels instead of plastic? I've very pleased with the steel wheels on the Kato rolling stock I've purchased so far and intend to only purchase that kind from now on. I'm just not sure which manufacturers sell them. Thanks for any advice.

Well... I'd been building my layout and had all the track in place and ready to go. I'd run some Atlas locos and they seemed to do fine without derailing. Then I bought my first Kato locos....the A-B-A Union Pacific locos that go with the City of Los Angeles 11-car passenger cars. The first...

I decided to try and operate 2 locomotives together this evening so I took my two newest Atlas with decoders, put 'em on the same track, gave 'em both the same code, and ran 'em. I was able to pull quite a long (for me) line of tankers, boxcars, intermodal units, and hopper cars up some grades...

Is it possible to add DCC to my old locomotives? They are by no means DCC ready as I've had them for at least 27 years. Is it worth it? How difficult is it? Anybody here ever do that? Does it take an electrical/mechanical expert to do this?

Wiring the layout, just finished installing the 14 gauge bus wires. I can either end the bus at a terminal (the one way trip) or I can end the bus back at the transformer (the round trip)...the Prodigy Express DCC transformer. Which works best? Any advantages one way or another?

Planning to use 18 gauge solid for my bus and track connectors. Going to have at least 10 track connections going on. Will run no more than 3 locos on layout. Layout is the Philly-Reading...13 foot x 6 foot layout using Prodigy Express DCC. Yea or Nay?

Is it a good idea to solder rail joiners to the track? Is this commonly done? What are the advantages/disadvantages? i just finished the wiring to my switches and soldering the wires together from the switch machines to the wire to the switch controllers and I'm on a soldering roll, so to...

Am I the only one who is happy with the bare-bones layout...no scenery, no nothing except a fully functional layout where everything works? Trains run smoothly, DCC system works great, etc. etc., but it's just the benchwork, trackwork, DCC, and not much more. It's the Philadelphia Reading...

I'm at the point where I'm going to be buying rolling stock for my new layout soon. I want to get quality merchandise and am wondering what brands should I look at and which to avoid. Any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.

Now that I'm finished (thanks to this forum!) wiring my layout, I'm looking to control my switches through my handheld wireless Prodigy. I'm looking at a Digitrax stationary decoder for Atlas snap switches. Are they compatible (the Digitrax and Prodigy)? Thanks in advance!

I posted this in the N scale section since that's what I'm working on...figured I might get more responses in this section so I posted this here as well... OK...I got the reverse loops all figured out and running very smoothly on my DCC wired system. Now, I'm trying to make sense of a reversing...

OK...I got the reverse loops all figured out and running very smoothly on my DCC wired system. Now, I'm trying to make sense of a reversing section within the section between those loops. My layout is a bit more complicated than my illustration below, but for all practical purposes it all...