Can this be used with any usb wall wart? Like say the ones that come with cell phones? I have a couple of those kicking around.

BEEN THERE! DONE THAT!!!

My bad for not carefully reading the manual!!

Tim--thanks for the correction.

Ken

I picked up an LGB install project and am thinking I got in over my head. While the concept of Railpro is universal, application is not. The gentleman has a Lake George & Boulder steam loco that I've figured out the basics with. Getting the wires to the motor and light is a different story. I managed to get the tender open (easy) but getting into the front end not so much. Would anybody here care to offer guidance to help me get out of the jam I got myself into?

Much appreciated,
Bryan

Well I don't blame you Jacob.  Tim is slow at getting updates and products out, as well as new sounds.  The lack of sounds is probably the biggest thing for me.  We do have enough of a library to cover the basic things but I would love to see so much more.  There is a ton of potential in Railpro that isn't being tapped as it should be.  That's been the story all along.

But I'll continue using Railpro since it fills my needs.  DCC just doesn't do it for me.  I'm building my own layout now and so can use it without the pressures of running in a Freemo group or on someone else's layout.  As long as the hardware continues to work and updates are available, I don't see me changing anything anytime soon.

-Kevin

I was an early adopter of RailPro due largely in part to KPack's youtube videos and I was the founder of the RPUG on the old yahoo! groups site. I was readily impressed with RP's ease of use and the auto load sharing. I put up with a lot of shortcomings in anticipation of some advancement to the hardware. It's been what, 10 years, and the LM hasn't shrunk at all? I still can't put an LM in any of my SW's and frankly I'm tired of ripping parts out to replace them with substandard sound. Another issue is the massive size of the throttle. I love my Digitrax UT-6 as it fits perfectly in my XL hand. I loathe having to manhandle the RP brick that's swinging from my neck.

I think Tim had a far superior protocol and was sitting on something revolutionary. Unfortunately, all he's done is sit on it. The hobby has moved on and RP is stuck with Atari era hardware. I loved the concept at one time but the implementation has failed, in my opinion, and is nothing more than a niche. I'm officially done with RailPro having ordered new Overland and Rapido locomotives with ESU and installing the same in existing locomotives.

I think in another 10 years what members here are left will be hoping for some other new hardware that DCC has long ago implemented. I don't know why Tim refuses to bring RailPro up to modern standards but I'm done sticking around waiting to find out. If I get around to listing my RP equipment I'll do it here but most of it is a generation out of date.

The crew here has been the most outstanding that I've ever seen in a forum. The knowledge and willingness to help is second to none and I'm still amazed at the intelligence of those here and I always left smarter than when I logged in. There were four of us in Free-mo that ran RP. Two preceded me in going back to DCC and now there will only be one and I know he's already ordered ESU equipped power as well. It was a fun experiment but not a viable competitor to DCC. It could be, if Tim would get out of his own way.