Daily Archives: June 11, 2014


This morning, I hardwired my first decoder, milled the Kato/Atlas GP35 frame, and wired the PowerCab into the layout (still have to cut the hole in the fascia to mount it). As soon as the Powercab came online, my Geep took off at Run 8. I did some research, discovered […]

DCC fun….


OK, let’s make it the $1000 layout. I picked up a NCE Powercab and a TCS CN-GP decoder. I knew that they were small, but holy snotballs, that decoder is tiny. I wound up today getting a new soldering station and will attempt my first DCC install soon (maybe later […]

There goes the budget…