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Senior Editor Dana Kawala hosts this insightful demo of the Digikeijs DR5000 Digital Command Control (DCC) station. In this video, you'll see how easy it is to interface the component with your PC. Dana also shows how the DR5000 is readily compatible with a wide array of throttles!
Host David Popp invites MR Contributing Editor Tony Koester to take a closer look at the collection of historic photos and maps. The two consider how to select and shape these references into Layout Design Elements (LDEs), which can be used to form an entire layout.
To continue this informative series of videos from Classic Toy Trains magazine, David shares info and insights on the wide array of O gauge track systems, sizes, and styles you can use to build a toy train layout!
MR's Eric White returns to the N scale Thompson River Canyon scene to install the structures and scenery that shape our representation of a large plywood plant. Eric shows how capturing key signature elements of a scene sure beats attempting to add each and every detail.
In this all-new MRVP series, you'll get to explore the many intricacies found in John "Truck" Truckenbrod's extensive collection of vintage toy trains. Truck's collection is housed in a setting that replicates a hobby shop from a bygone era, so you'll get to browse shelves, counters, and display cases packed with boxed Lionel Trains (1945-1969) of nearly every variety and variation!
In this episode of MRVP Tech, David Popp and Ben Lake team up to install a Train Control System (TCS) WOWSound DCC sound decoder into an HO scale diesel locomotive used on a familiar MRVP project railroad. You'll also get to see how Ben uses his laptop to test and program the installation from the comforts of his workbench.