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I build my first layout when I was 13 in 1976 using the Atlas layout book. Learned alot, but never built another layout again. In the mid 90s though the early 2000 built up a nice collection, but had know space for a layout. The nearest club is around 50 miles away in Point Richmond California.

Just ordered three of these from scale trains site with the father's day sale. Thanks.

Who makes the n scale road paving equipment

Looking good 👍🏻

Thanks for the update the layout is looking great as always .

We just got our power and internet net back up. Seems a tornado came around 5 miles from us. Like the update and the idea you have on the lighting in the container area. About structures I like to mount mine on bases I can swap out so I can change out industrial buildings and change out rolling stock on op night

Hi C Mastracci , yea life does get in the way of your layouts from time to time. I probably have only worked about 10 hours on mine the last few months. Been busy with lawn and garden work and other projects. I do enjoy your videos and how to projects you do. But if you just do a video on running trains i would enjoy it also. I have slow down on my purchases,because I have some per orders coming in soon. Thanks for sharing. Have a good week. 😎😎 👍

Awesome progress! Can’t wait to meet in Altoona it’s coming fast!

I just want to say because of your channel, I finally bit the bullet on N scale. I got myself an Atlas GP7 and some boxcars and plan on getting some track soon. Thanks for being an inspiration

Music is too load hard too hear narration

Im 55 years old and would LOVE to try and build a layout.... if i wasn't ripped off by a real estate deal of my own house for 22 years sale back in 2022 and now that entity is coming for me now, Friday the 24th was 30 days into a 60 day seizure of property by wayne county Michigan (Detroit). Long story short i lose everything ive ever owned cone 30 more days approximately, as i sold my house of 22 years and currently living (not for long) in the house i grew up in. Growing up, since about 1974 was just dad and me, my best friend. Dad died march 15 2016 and since then i lost my best friend and father but deciced to live in his house instead. Its been ib the family over 50 years and seemed like the best move. My wife since 2020 has grown to love the place too. We are both on disability, just been hanging on. We are now about 30 days max from being thrown out on the streets with nothing not even our stuff we collected and owned over our 50+ years. I know, sob story and nobody cares. I dont either anymore and almost certain ill be dead in about 30 days plus one. Not a soul on this planet could care about how much a car guy i am or how much ive always wanted to build a serious model train layout. Dont worry about it y'all, ill be dead by June 25 of this year...hust in time to beat my birthday on the 28th

15:42 I think you have a stowaway dinosaur

I also bought two Atlas books!

I would like to know your recommended locomotive company. I watched another video and the guy claimed to have issues with other companies locomotives running well is now buying only Kato.

Is it possible to just reverse one leg of that triangle instead of the entire downstream circuit?

I found lots of good info in this series. Very well done. I think any new modeler will benefit by following you.

Hi C Mastracci , very good information on DCC. There’s a lot of questions I still have . But I trun to my Zephyr manual and if I can’t find the answer I’ll make a call. Thanks for the information. Have a good weekend. 😎😎 👍

Very useful, especially for newbies. One added bit of advice...when I switched to DCC a lot of people sang the praises of "suitcase" connectors. My layout uses 16awg stranded for the bus and 20awg solid for the feeder drops. During the first few months of operation 95% of the problems I encountered turned out to be caused by these connectors. I then switched to the blue "Posi-Tap" brand pieces (part # PT16-18) and operations have been bullet-proof since (at least electrically! Lol).

good info, One thing you did not touch on was the ground wire from the command station to the booster. I was surprised to see or maybe you just did not mention about power districts. You can get by with a small layout. this is a basic DCC video packed with great advise. Question do you use a power districts on your large layout? Liked the series.

Nice Looking and Nice Info !!!!

I wish I can hear an N scale DCC/Sound loco in person, but everyone I know does O and HO scale. Do you know how it sounds compared to an HO loco? I'm assuming HO is louder but is N scale sound like "it's almost there but not quite as loud" or is it a " night and day difference" , in volume levels ?

This was a very entertaining and informative video. I've never understood much about DCC operations, but this video has pushed that knowledge along. Your speed matching reminds me of playing with Arduino and sensors. The numbers 255 and 128 were prominent in that application too. Thank you for your efforts, I feel your frustration and pain with the number games.

This is really helpful. I’m only just beginning to explore the hobby, so this and your other videos are a great resource. I have done technical communication for decades. You mentioned being new to DCC yourself. That’s actually a great perspective for teaching like this, because you know what’s confusing and where the pitfalls are. (The worst people to try to teach basics are usually the engineers who designed things.) And yes, women are definitely in your audience.

Great video and cool layout. Also nice to have somebody else do some switching in N scale. Switching sessions on YT seem to be H0 scale 90% of the time. Would love to get an engine with sound myself at some point - maybe even a SD40-2. Keep up the good work!

Good info! Watched over 3 mornings. These were very hard selections to speed match for sure. I usually push 8 to silence my sound ones thisbin turn eliminates the start delay. Then i juat throttle to 1 and wait a bit when I have them hooked together and using in real time (to let the sound unit "spool up")

I also put fasted engine in back doing more pulling on train sometime helping them run together

cool

thank you for sharing your experience.

I’ll definitely have to take points from this now that I have a huge layout lol

Hi. All I just wanna say is *You have a very beautiful beautiful N scale layout* Congrats !. Greetings from the other side of the world, my friend. This is John from Santiago de Chile, South America. Cheers !.

Enjoyed every minute.

Hi C Mastracci , I don’t think I’ll be trying to speed matching two different companies locomotives together. That was a good example of trying to match to completely different style of locomotives. Thanks for sharing. Have a good week. 😎😎 👍

Looking great. Keep up the good work, before long your layout may evolve into a more grandeur spectacle 😉

So would a very low throttle start, as a operator procedure negate the sound-file lag with a long train?

If you setup consist locomotives to a consist address in LokProgrammer, is there a way to have the decoder also respond to the locomotives own address? Say, you have two locomotives which are 200 and 210 setup to consist address 20. So, when you use locomotive address 20 in the controller then both locomotives will respond since they're in that consist. Say you want to then run locomotive 200 by itself and leave 210 behind. Is there a way to set it up so that when you use locomotive address 200 in the controller then that locomotive will respond independently? Is that something that can be setup in LokProgrammer?

I used to have 7 digitrax sound decoders and ended up replacing 5 of those with ESU LockSound. The rest of my locomotives have LokSound except for a Bachman with Econami and another Bachmann with TCS WowSound and a BLI with Paragon 4. I speed matched them as best as I could but problem is to match them exactly with ESU is almost impossible so what I do is bring my throttle to 2% and wait for both to catch up to each other and then start speeding up. They all stop about the same. But even startup difference between Paragon 4 and ESU LokSound is very difficult to match because of the sound files used. I will only buy locomotives with ESU LokSound going forward. It was too much of a pain before and besides, the sound on Digitrax is pure junk anyways. I'll replace the other two (Kato P42 with Digitrax) at a later time with ESU LokSound. I also used to have some older Kato locomotives where I had to use TCS decoders which I sold on eBay. Again, my rule for DCC going forward is only to use ESU LokSound.

Interesting, even for DC users. I want to switch to DCC at the end of this year 👍🏻

Thank you for the detailed explanation. Looks like I made the right choice buying two of the same scale trains locos.

This video was awesome. I remember being a kid alwsys playing with the train at Christmas. Been looking at making one of my spare rooms into a train room. Trying to figure out how much debt I wanna go in for this hobby lol

6:40 what station platform is that?

Good info 👍🏻

Im surpriced I have applied it sparingly with wheels turning and no matter how smooth it seems the loco clumpety clumps along not smooth at all?

Hey I've got a question for you. I only have an fdm 3d printer (really for larger/engineering parts, not high detail models/miniatures like an sla printer), and have been trying to find someone who has a lot of experience 3d printing stuff, especially for N scale. I'm putting a mine on my layout and I'm having trouble finding mine-sized equipment (haven't found any that is appropriate size at all). I know you get a lot of your models 3d printed. Do you just find them randomly on ebay or do you have someone you specifically go to for commissions?

Athern Blue Box locomotives and rolling stock !!! My favorite!!

looks good except for the telephone wires sometimes less looks better

I really enjoy your UA-cam videos. Keep up the awesome and inspiring videos. Glad you’re here. Thanks