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    What is your age?

    I am 38 and my son is 7 - as an adder my father is 66. The three of us use the information provided here to help my son into model railroading - he is the reason we got into it (my father was a switchman and later on a coal dock worker). His experiences and our railroading history in the...
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    DCC Learning Father

    No sound on other loco's and able to run 2-3 with a DC as well. True, the bug is there for me and my son would run 100 engines if he could (he loves the idea of consists). I have been looking at the MRC Prodigy Advanced 2 and the Digitrax Super Chief. Leaning toward the MRC, what does...
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    DCC Learning Father

    That is some great information from both of you. We will be upgrading at some point, but I think we are better off easing into this. I figure at some point, with everyone's help, I'll have just enough information to really screw things up. Until then I'll keep learning and trying things...
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    DCC Learning Father

    I'm having alot of thoughts and ideas all at once, bear with me. Can anyone help with what I need to buy and/or download in order to program our DCC units. I want to get everything and set up. I read about some sort of interface but can't seem to narrow down exactly what I need. Also, there...
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    DCC Learning Father

    By the way, looking at buying a Blue Line EMD F7 A/B with sound. Any suggestions on the best decoder to get? Again, price is the driver - Blue Line + good decoder is still cheaper than alot of DCC installed units out there. If anyone has any thoughts on this I would like to hear them.
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    DCC Learning Father

    For now, since we're just getting started and the main engineer is the 6 year old, I got a Bachmann EZCommand. Mainly ease of use and price were the drivers. We will be upgrading at some point as we start to build a more permanent layout, so any suggestions or tips are greatly appreciated from...
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    Blueline Paragon upgrade?

    Looking to buy a new Blue Line F7 - any suggestions on the best decoder?
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    DCC Learning Father

    I believe I figured it out - throughout the installation I followed the directions and tested the locomotive at each step. However, at about midnight at the last step, I looked at the wiring diagram and wired up the tender power pickups - failing to remember that underneath, the power was...
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    DCC Learning Father

    messed up Your description of how to get it apart worked great - I had found the wiring diagram on the web in my own research. After all of that, I still screwed it up and smoked the decoder (I watched as it puffed!). I am going to need to find someone around here to show me what I did wrong...
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    DCC Learning Father

    We are just getting into the hobby and my son is 6 years old - so I am doing most of the work. On that note, I am fairly mechanical but deathly afraid of breaking one of my sons new/used loco's. We have purchased an IHC Consolidation 2-8-0 and decoder. I have included a pic I found that looks...
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