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.Locos & Rolling Stock

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posted by Joe Fugate
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Locos & Rolling Stock

Your locos and rolling stock add the all-essential element of action to your layout - but if your model railroad equipment does not look realistic and it runs poorly, your dreams of a satisfying action-packed layout could be frustratingly elusive. Our videos in this section show you expert techniques for getting the absolute very best realism and top notch performance out of your equipment.

It's the locos and rolling stock you put on the track that tend to take the time and expense on a model railroad. Why not make the effort to learn how the "modeling masters" get their equipment to look like the real thing in miniature and to perform to its maximum potential?

The video shorts in this section not only discuss and demonstrate how to improve the realism and performance of your equipment, we ask the expert to also point out the "gotchas" and pitfalls to avoid. If you can take a few minutes and avoid such beginner traps, we think it's important to call those out so you can keep the hobby satisfaction high and the frustration factor low, low, low!

Locos & rolling stock video short topics

Working loco headlights in DCC, part 1 (Chapter 6a - DVD 3)


Working headlights and gyralights add drama and realism to your trains, and adding these sorts of lighting effects to your locos can be done with relative ease if you're using DCC. In this video segment, we show you step-by-step, how to add dazzling lighting effects to your diesel locos. (1-2-3)

Working loco headlights in DCC, part 2 (Chapter 6b - DVD 3)


In part 2 of this video, we build on part 1 and do an actual headlight installation in a Kato diesel, carefully demonstrating the install process and then show how we program the decoder to get the exactly the lighting effects we want using the free program DecoderPro. (1-2-3)

Installing a SoundTraxx diesel decoder, part 1 (Chapter 7a - DVD 3)


Adding sound to your locos can really bring your layout alive, and with DCC adding sound has never been easier. In part 1 of this video, we install a DCC sound decoder into a Kato diesel, showing you many tricks you can use to easily install a sound decoder into any loco in your roster. (1-2-3)

Installing a SoundTraxx diesel decoder, part 2 (Chapter 7b - DVD 3)


In part 2, we show you how to program the many options typically available in a sound decoder using the free program DecoderPro, and we give you many expert best-practices for picking optimum settings to use in any sound decoder-equipped loco on your roster. (1-2-3)



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