I have a lot of EZ track, my local hobby store buys used trains from people and most sets they originally got came with it so it is easy to get cheap EZ track. I probably have around 40 curves and 15-20 straight sections at this point which my boys and I arrange into a […]
I have moved and I haven’t built a new layout yet but I am still collecting Chessie gear when I can. My newest engine is a Bachmann GP7 Chessie 5606. This engine like my last 2 is also DCC and the detail is fairly exceptional giving that it is a low end brand. Over the […]
Today I purchased the second of 3 planned locomotives to run on my layout. The first being last April when I bought my DCC system was a Chessie GP40. As you may have noticed if you have for some bizarre reason been reading my blog I like the Chessie System. Chessie however is not my […]
I finally got all the switches on my layout wired. It took about 10min per switch and there are 9 on the layout over the course of a couple weeks when I could find a few min to spare but in the end it was worth it. Now it is possible with ease to do […]
It’s been some time since my last model railroad update but the quest is not over yet, far from it. I had spent the summer at my summer home and some house issues since returning had prevented me from resuming my hobby. I decided to final try out wiring one of my several switches to […]