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Jim_N:
Hi All,
I'm Jim and I live in Reno, Nevada. My folks gave me an American Flyer set that I and my younger brothers expanded to a flat, no scenic plywood sheet. When I saw the classic Boys' Life HO scale layout in the late-50s I told myself that someday I would have something better and then promptly got sidetracked (heh, heh) about model trains for 40 years. A spinal operation in 1999 gave me time to reacquaint. Altho I bought tons of stuff and put together a 6'x10' table, I couldn't get motivated beyond laying track and running a few consists; but I did keep everything.
I am retired now so have once again turned to the hobby. I am building a bi-level 5'x9' table layout rather than a preferred around the room layout since I only have garage space. The RR is freelanced to include bridges, tunnels and a mostly yard setting on the upper level. So far I'm making more headway, albeit very sporadically, than my previous attempt - I have never been a serious modeler such as most of you. When I assembled gear in 1999 I bought a MRC DCC Command 2000 controller so that's what I'm using. I want something more sophisticated now but my current experience with MRC and the literature I've read by DCC vendors such as Digitrax and NCE just doesn't have much appeal. I discovered the Ring Engineering approach on the Model Railroad Hobbyist website and it makes the most sense to me intuitively.
I recently found this users' group by fortuitous accident and have joined in the hopes of expanding my understanding of Rail Pro - especially what it's like to operate as described by real users instead of unfounded opinions of non-users that I have seen on the internet.
I have just finished reading literally every post in all the forums on this site and the information has been beyond great. Although I am not a participating type person, I am hoping that once I commit to Rail Pro that I will have some worthwhile observations to contribute.
William Brillinger:
Welcome here Jim, and all the other recent new members!
trailrider:
Hello! I'm Jim from Colorado. I received my first model train set around 8 years old, an American Flyer set, but switched to HO around 12 years old, or around 62 years ago! I'm semi-retired, but keep very busy. Because I've been modeling so long, I have a fairly big collection of HO locomotives, both steam and diesel. Most of those are in DC, and I've only recently acquired DCC with sound in a few of my diesels. Obviously, I have far too many locomotives to convert them all to DCC. The main reason I went to DCC at all was to get sound. (There is nothing that stirs me as much as the sound of a diesel horn in the night! As a kid, I rode the original Burlington Zephyrs with my folks going to see my grandparents in downstate Illinois.) I'd like to have some of my steam locomotives rigged for sound and consisting, but the ones I would convert to DCC or RailPro have Canon coreless motors, and I don't know how they would react to the higher voltages of DCC. RailPro sounds interesting, especially for consisting/double-heading. Since I mainly run trains by myself, I'm not too concerned with running more than one train at a time, and my layout is a folded dogbone around a 14' x 14' room.
So any comments on how RailPro works, and tips about converting some of my engines would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, in advance! :)
Dean:
Hi, I am a retired electrician with some electronics experience. I have a 13'x20' layout that I have been working on for 20+ years. My layout is DCC controlled using an NCE Power Pro system. I recently purchased a RailPro HC-2 and 4 LM-2 decoders for consisting. Hoping to learn more about RailPro here in these forums.
Tuscarora
yvesmary:
Welcome to Terry, the 100th member of our group.
Looking forward to #200. It's nice to see this group growing.
Yves in Alberta
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