Sad to hear
ill give him a seven horn salute     Dave

 salt lake city Utah
ogden Utah its on home turf now
the number board
from wheels with oiler
theres so much to picture on this huge loco  i do have some grease on my hands touching it  they blew the whistle several times why i was there.       

here's a simple way to figure your resistance for leds
Most LEDS  are 3 volt 10ma or RGB are about 20ma   knowing these are important . To find the current limiting resistor first you need a power source   lets say  13 volts dc can be anything over 3 volts  forward voltage .  OK  you need to take 3 volts  from 13 volts which gives you 10 volts  and 10ma =.01a     take your voltage  10 volts  and divide by .01a  and you should get 1000 ohms or 1k ohms minimum

example 2      now you are hooking to a 24 volt dc source         21 volts divided by .01a and you should have  2100 ohms . 
OK this is the minimum size resister you will need always add  more resistance  to dim and save the life  of the LED.

i found this on a led website  this is so easy to use  play with it  and have fun 

i add a tiny bit of conductalube also   it helps out big time .  i do all my lighted passenger cars with conductalube on contact surfaces  less friction more conductivity

i live within 100 ft of UP rails between Ogden and SLC ut .  i took off monday to go see him .  cant wait till it runs and comes by, I want to feel the earth move and shake.   welcome back 4014

Heres what  i did with those type of long type of passenger cars    i use couplers  that have a shelf on them   called shelf couplers  Kadee makes them  #118 and #119 .    what happens is a small hump in the tracks lift the cars high enough to uncouple  like a switch .   one package will do 2 cars .   so give this a try      DAve

Tryburn   very nice  I like the santa fe   

Ken when you have grandkids things seem to get put where ever  the chopter makes sounds so they fly it over the trains .  and my road is a mess at this time .  lol .   

i do this  so i don't have to put sound to every loco i have.  a sound boxcar solves alot of hard to install sound 

thanks everyone    i only payed a few bucks for this building with missing roof at a train auction .   im working on my water spray right now .  fiber(or fish string ) with alight blue led  try to match water a bit  and have it shooting into the fire from a fire truck .      i whished i could find a photo of a building that was local that almost looked the same when it burned down .       Yes everyone was lucky not to loose their lives in this tradagy.  fire insurance is looking to pay out large amounts to rebuild this structure ,    they found the cause was faulty electrical wiring or overloaded circuit ,        what my thoughts would be to put this on a table top lazy susan  one scene burnning building flip lazy around and have a nice building .     well the fire trucks will have blinking lights which is another project plus the water shooting out  and some real smoke on top of it and a lot of other props for it .    will save when i get the place to build my table top layout .      i spent like 2 hrs to make this and yes the store bought ones are not even close .     i have a short clip of how the flames flicker  and i t really does look good  just need to get a lazy susan to film better   one place on the back side really look like flames with the fiber i used, its  really bright .    i post more stuff if i have time to mess with it more       DAve 

I used cotton  little led flames you buy at the store, i used 4,   fiber optic  to give amber look and to hold cotton which in turn gave more color to look like the flames where higher.                                                                                                                                                                                 





Dave

i do have a catzilla  but she doesnt like the trains and avoids it if she gets in the home.  i live on a small farm  which has 2 homes on it . ill be moving to the bigger home in the future  which has a huge basement  then i redo this layout even bigger than what i have ..  right now is working on things to make a great looking one  so i can transfer things allready done.   in the meantime i do love running long trains 20 to 50 cars long with 4 running at the same time and still work in a yard moving cars.   my narrowest curve is 26  which is on my ez track section .
i also use ez track to help with my flex track curves  35.25 is most of  curves or even larger .  i run 100 car train no promblem  it circles the whole layout gets over my bridge with three locos  with the highest slope is 2 degrees  most is 1 1/2  just  4 ft of it gets to 2 degrees.  my down slope is 4 degree .   have no promblem backing  long trains  up my slopes.    i have 3 grandchildren  oldest is 4 now i do things on it to make them happy and get interested in the hobby.      all my pieces of plywood are  1/4 "  6 ft long  2 sections of flextrack .  i can pull apart  to move or store. and i even have it quartered so i can expand 4 directions .        plans are is when i go into the other home  i build my platform and set this on it  then take section by section out and replace with what a hobby system looks like.        or do you sit with a 4x8 and i had that  when i started  i out grew it quickly.       

yes its different  and boy does it work  harder to run wires because you cant just stick them through a deck to wire underneath hard to set up the 4-8-8-4  a little . can i get to every location  yes .    the dirt/dust is no different than on a table  i clean every month with a wet dry vac  layout and walking areas.   and my big promblem which i fixed racoons coming down the chimney  and knocking over stuff. 

im not just into trains i have a couple old tractors,  have horses ,rental homes and make time to relax is my railroad and alot of that time is running them.   i have some really nice steam  that i only bring out once in a while and seeing what others do to theirs makes me think of the day i can retire and give that a shot also.  ive been doing this for three years now and hopefully another 30 so i can show off some cool stuff in my head that needs to come out

Thanx Dave

Heres the Harley shop with solor powered turntable for the show room motorcycle . on the right is my first building i got back in the 60ties Bates motel  and on the left is a diner  everyone has to eat in a pass car .



now to my Farm





and now to disneyland with mater

missed a photo   my dinorsour park


looking the other way towards deere town



need a station to unload passangers



the town



got to go by New York



the christmas village



then the train museam  then it go backs to start



ill post the other room next    Dave

Well  here i go  showing my oak floor layout (yes i vacume alot its not that bad to do )

frist photo is looking towards the yard i call it the the start piont



now hitting the water tower and the outer loop first bridge


maintenance yard  John deere forest back (now you know where they get there deere from) second bridge



bridge 3


looking back at this area

Joe you are correct   Half bridge rectifier     have a red one one way a green one the other way  great track signals, the clear leds you can paint also .  HO is just to hard to do with big thumbs like mine.  I tryied.    heres another shot of my led button pole lamp and a sign with leds.
im going to upload more pics in my layout thread.