My Atlas engines with QSI sound decoders arrived with a small booklet explaining how to program. There are long section about sound programming for DC only as well as DCC operation. Both booklets I have do not mention how to program the basics of DCC motor control and I assumed there are no CVs t be programmed for motor control. The engines had an awful jump start and a lightning top speed. I considered QSI decoders as barely useable and replaced them with other (none) sound DCC decoders.

This an example of Atlas documentation for those decoders
http://www.atlasrr.com/DCC/User%20Manual...0Titan.pdf

I stumbled last night over this very similar document
http://www.atlasrr.com/DCC/Revised%20%20...Manual.pdf

All of a sudden is there an appendix 2 (page 50) listing all the usual CV I am used to. Indeed the QSI decoders has most (my old version has no CV6) needed to setup a smooth and slow running switcher (MP15DC in my case). e.g. CV 2-5 set to 1,5,5,80 results makes an outstanding switcher on a small ISL

I post this just in case you are irritated like me by the little printed booklets shipped with the model not mentioning any CVs to control the motor.

My darling got it's voice back
IMG_4843 by faraway52, on Flickr

Well, it's official...for a eye popping price of hundreds of millions of dollars in right-of-way upgrades at our expense, AMTRAK has agreed to keep traveling through the State of Colorado without stopping at a single major city on its way from Southern Californian to Chicago. Yes, you read this correctly. AMTRAK will make its one and only stop as before, in the small community of La Junta in the far south, and then pass right through Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver without stopping on its was to Chicago.

How many people might board at or get off at La Junta? Barely a handful, if AMTRAK is lucky.

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Three generations Of CNJ Freight power meet in Allentown PA. This pic was common as for about six years all three classes ran side by side and sometimes as helpers on the same train.


   

By that I'm talking mainly about DCC, computer interfacing, Virtual modeling ect.

I got this pic from another Forum . I thought what a great addition to a layout , or maybe even a stand alone diorama or mini layout !

   

I learned that what I thought was a box cab in the foreground , is a covered " steam dummy " , used in the 1800's so as not to scare the horses

Raymond Storey's photo.

Just curious as to what folks think of hyper loops? I had never heard of them until I saw it on the news today.

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Sounds like Sci-Fi but they are actually developing them.

(Like self-driving cars, I'm not too keen on this.)

Rob

The Great British Train Show will be held this year, May 7 and 8, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
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Admission is $10 (Canadian) (That's about .25 American) Concessions for youngsters and families.

This is the biggest and best all-British train show in North America. *
Dealers. Layouts. Demonstrations. Used stuff.
Brampton is located at exit 348 of Hwy 401 -- approx 3.48 hours east of Detroit. Closer to Buffalo. Just the other side of the airport from Toronto.



*We wish it weren't, because we'd love to go to the other one.

Just checking to see if anyone will be attending the ECLSTS G scale train show in York , PA next Saturday March 26th. I'll be there in the morning.