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Hi, just back from the Springfield train show. Bachmann was there with a C-19 running on rollers with sound emanating from it. I asked the Bachmann guys what unit they were using and he said it was the new Soundtraxx Tsunami Plug & play decoder and ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 27 Jan 2013 03:23 PM RE: Bachmann Brass Track I was making a minor change to my layout this year and purchased 3 of the 3-foot section, it being slightly cheaper than Aristo and the other alternative, I thought I'd give it a try. Totally compatible with Aristo track and I like the dark brown ti ... by Peter Osborne in Product Reviews on 03 Jun 2012 04:11 PM RE: 38210 Piko Mogul ?????? I agree with the comments above. It looks a lot better in person than the photos suggest. Disappointing that the tender has plastic wheels but I would have swapped at least one truck to power pickup anyway and for this price, they had to cut s ... by Peter Osborne in Product Reviews on 16 Feb 2012 11:15 AM RE: Sound, Smoke and DCC Control One other observation. You list some 2 axle locomotives in your rooster. My experience is that running them under DCC over switches can be a problem. The momentary interruption of the power feed tends to initiate the sound start up sequence. There ... by Peter Osborne in Beginner's Forum on 03 Feb 2012 02:13 PM RE: Sound, Smoke and DCC Control I'm going to disagree on the MRC comment. The MRC wireless is a great solution for a garden railway, especially if you get a base unit and then place the wireless adapter in an optimal position for coverage. I run a Prodigy Advance with an 8 amp boo ... by Peter Osborne in Beginner's Forum on 03 Feb 2012 08:39 AM PRODIGY PRO-ELITE Item # 0001417 - First Look I had the opportunity to see and discuss the new unit at the Springfield Train show this weekend. MRC had a working production sample there which looked very similar in size to the sketch on the MRC site except it has a digital readout panel on the ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 03 Feb 2012 07:32 AM RE: 38210 Piko Mogul ?????? I placed an order with Wholesale Trains yesterday. It's listed at $153 which is hardly a big gamble. DCC ready, which means installing my spare MRC 1819 sound decoder ($70) should be fairly easy. I'm hoping that the tender has power pickup also, ... by Peter Osborne in Product Reviews on 03 Feb 2012 07:24 AM RE: Re-trucking a MDC/Piko D&RGW shorty wood caboose It's actually fairly easy to take the axels from the Hartland plastic wheels and use them with the Bachmann metal wheels. Just takes a few minutes and a little patience to use a spare axel as a driver to remove the wheels and swap them. Done it seve ... by Peter Osborne in Rolling Stock on 08 Sep 2011 07:57 PM RE: Bachmann 2-4-2T which decoder sound card I'm hoping to use the Loksound Select in ths engine. I've not seen any reports on amperage, but based upon the interface they are providing, I'm hoping that the 1.2 amp rating of the Select will suffice. There's a Select with a 2-6-2T sound option w ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 01 Aug 2011 06:17 AM RE: Good basic dcc decoders? I think the MRC 1819 5 amp sound decoder which can be had for around $70   (http://www.jimsmodeltrains.com/-strse-172/MRC-1819-O-G/Detail.bok ) is a great option. The only drawback vs. the more expensive solutions is that auto=chuff is the only ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 13 Feb 2011 04:06 PM RE: Duh .... LGB Mogul DCC Question..... HELP. So Dan, could the locomotive be programmed and run without the tender? I'm trying to minimize the cost of shipping the complete engine back for reprogramming. by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 16 Dec 2010 07:13 PM RE: Duh .... LGB Mogul DCC Question..... HELP. OK. Wrong coast. The new owner is on the East Coast, but 300 miles north of me in Rome ME. Anyone in the area want to run an errand? by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 13 Dec 2010 06:56 PM RE: Duh .... LGB Mogul DCC Question..... HELP. OK. So I missed a vital piece of information. I'm on the East Coast and the locomotive is NOW with it's new owner on the West Coast. So as someone figured out, I'm trying to avoid a UPS round trip for the whole loco. I have multiple DCC programing t ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 13 Dec 2010 05:20 PM Duh .... LGB Mogul DCC Question..... HELP. I sold one of my Moguls (26194) to someone on eBay and it seems that when I was using it on DCC, I changed CV29 to disable running on analog. So now I'm working with the new owner to change it back as he uses good old DC. So, do I need the whole loc ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 12 Dec 2010 01:35 PM RE: New Bachmann large scale Hopefully the Lyn will be a great improvement on the original. That clunker could have been the death of the Spectrum line, but Bachmann saved the day with the wonderful Shay, although that turned out to have a couple of archilles heels. I for one w ... by Peter Osborne in Public Forum on 18 Jul 2010 11:42 AM RE: Indoor 13 ft x 16 ft shelf in 'G', can it be done? Yes. I'm assuming 13 inches by 16 feet? You would be limited to a point to point line with perhaps a spring switch to send the train back on an alternate track. A trolley/traction line could be fun if you set it up with an automatic reversing unit l ... by Peter Osborne in Beginner's Forum on 04 Apr 2010 08:08 AM RE: Shay High Voltage Try this: http://www.modelrectifier.com/search/product-view.asp?ID=1261 Peter. by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 28 Mar 2010 06:30 PM RE: DCC Power Supply What MRC 8 amp booster do you have? The older ADxxx has a pot that lets you set the voltage for G scale. The new Prodigy series model has a 15 v transormer so I suspect you would not get more than 14 v on the track. I run trains with both that and u ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 10 Mar 2010 08:42 PM RE: Serria Battery problem I think you will find all the answers you need at George's amazing web side. Here's the link to the pertinant page. http://www.girr.org/girr/tips/tips6/sierra_tips.html#batt Good luck. by Peter Osborne in Beginner's Forum on 14 Feb 2010 06:56 AM RE: Which power units would you recommend. If you're going track with DC, then you can't go wrong with the Aristo Train Engineer setup and the Elite (5 or 10amp) power supply. The ablity to follow your trains with a wireless remote is essential in Garden Railways, whatever your source of pow ... by Peter Osborne in Beginner's Forum on 24 Jan 2010 09:24 AM RE: LGB MTS de-modification for LGB 2080D locomotive What exactly is your goal? The loco should run fine on DC if the MTS decoder was set up with analog mode enabled. I think that's the default. It would help greatly to know what the final goal is to give advice. One good thing is that you could proba ... by Peter Osborne in Beginner's Forum on 24 Jan 2010 09:18 AM RE: DCC - Speed Matching, Probably a dumb question but.. I downloaded the sound decoder CV list from the Bachmann site, but who knows if it matches the Q. When I use Decoder Pro and ask it to read the decoder type and match it to a defn file, it picked the Soundtraxx Bachmann OEM template without hesitati ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 18 Jan 2010 05:49 AM RE: DCC Quasami - Strange Problem..? OK. Time to confess. Greg was right on the money and when I cranked up Decoder Pro connected to my SPROG and opened up a throttle. Guess what? #4 was working fine again. So then a little light went off, and I recalled something about Old Type Con ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 17 Jan 2010 09:44 PM RE: LED install in Pro Drive DCC Switch Motor Oh, I forgot to ask, with the LED installed, I'm guessing that it satifies the need for the load on the decoder while programming? by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 16 Jan 2010 08:39 AM RE: DCC - Speed Matching, Probably a dumb question but.. Good observations. Thanks. I already found one glitch. The Quasami does not seem to support mid and max, but both support speed tables, so that would seem to be the way to go. Time to crank up Decoder Pro and start poking around in these decode ... by Peter Osborne in DCC in Large Scale on 16 Jan 2010 07:24 AM Page 1 of 4 1 2 3 4 > >> Active Forums 4.2