Building My New Railroad Layout
About my First Train Layout
When I was young, in the house that was built by my grandfather. my father helped me build a layout in the basement of our house. I remember having many years of fun working on my layout and running my Ho locomotives around the track. At one point when I got a little older my dad went down in the basement and came back upstairs and told me a water pipe had broken above my layout, I went downstairs to take a look and everything I had was beyond repair. I was so sad and crying because I love the layout even watching the locomotives run around the track. Now that I am in the later years of my life I want to start to build other layouts.
where I start. here are some questions I asked myself below.
- Identify what railroad I will Be Modeling? A: Boston And Albany Railroad
- What Type Of Layout will be built: NMRA Modular Construction
- Where do I get track Plans from?: Boston & Albany Railroad Wikipedia
- How will I Control my Locomotives:: NCE Digital Command Control
- How did Will Railroad Volunteers talk to each other? Family Radio Service Two Way Radios
- My Start Planning Date: 9/21/2020
- What am I Doing Right Now: 9/22/2020- (Planning Stage at this time)
- My Start Build Date: Unknown at this time
DCC (Digital Command Control) Information and Links
- NCE Specific Links: Decoder Selector Tool – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!decoder-selector-tool/c1c03
- Decoder Spec Sheet – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!decoder-spec-sheet/cgli
- How to Video List – https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=NCE+dcc
- US Layout Registry – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!layout-registry/crqu
- International Layout registry – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!international-layout-registry/c1ksb
- US Dealer list – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!us-dealers/cfkh
- AU Dealer List – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!us-dealers/copb International
- Dealer List – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!international-dealer-listings/c1moz
- Distributors List – http://www.ncedcc.com/#!distributors/cud3
- NCE – http://www.ncedcc.com/
- NCE Information Station – https://ncedcc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
- NCE on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pages/NCE-Corporation/236593026381092
General Model Railroading Online Resources:
- Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine – http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/
- Internet Radio – http://www.modelrailradio.com/
- National Model Railroad Association – http://www.nmra.org/
- Modular N-scale – http://www.ntrak.org/
- Home page for JMRI – Java Model Railroad Interface – http://www.jmri.org/
- DCC Related Websites: Alan Gartner’s wiring for DCC – http://wiringfordcc.com/
- Mr. DCC’s University http://www.mrdccu.com/
- Mark Schutzers website – http://markschutzer.com/
- Arthur Houston’s NCE Youtube Channel – NCE DCC How to make it work. What is DCC – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Command_Control
- Mark Gurries’ DCC/NCE oriented page https://sites.google.com/site/markgurries/ Marcus
- Ammann’s DCC for Beginners: http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/nswmn2/DCC.htm
- Email forum groups NCE DCC Group: https://groups.io/g/NCE-DCC/
- Wiring for DCC Group: https://groups.io/g/w4dccqa/
- JMRI user group – https://groups.io/g/jmriusers/
Internet Resources
- Operations Special Interest Group(OpSIG) ─ membership open http://www.opsig.org
- OpSIG PRIMER(FAQ)http://www.opsig.org/reso/primer/OpSigResourcepagehttp://www.opsig.org/reso/
- Gateway Division Operations articles http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarCards/links
- Yahoo Car Cards group links ─ membership free http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarCards/links
- Freight Forwarding Operations (multipleresources)http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains/rrfrtops.htm
- Basic Guide to Design Model Train Operations http://knol.google.com/k/model‐railroad‐operations#
- Carcards–CarCards Operations Group (CCOG)@Yahoo http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarCards/Discussion,waystocreatecards,links–
- MrTrains http://mrtrains.com/rr/layout/operations.html– (Information, download templates–)
- Micro‐Mark http://www.micro mark.com/•CarcardsystemSoftware –
- Listsofproductsbycategory http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains/rrsoft.htm