This article is about how I made a GoPro camera-car for my HO scale model railroad. With a camera mounted to the train, you can record a first-person-view of the train travelling through the model landscape, across bridges or through…
The NCE Power Cab is a popular DCC controller for model railroads. But one vulnerability it has, is the reliability of speed controller wheel (also called thumb wheel, or rotary encoder). For many people, after some time of use, the…
How I made my Lionel trains remote-controlled and battery-powered! This practice amongst model railroaders is also goes by the name Dead Rail. There is no power fed to the tracks at all. battery, installed on the train, supplies the power.…