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