this is soo good it should be a sticky

well in ft myers they have www.scalerails.org & its a double deck layout with a helix & they model the joint line on the lower & santa fe on the upper , i have been thinking of joining them  but time will tell

THANKS KEN  but i sold the house & tore down the layout  & moved to florida & there are no basements so i have all this articulated steam & they al sit in my apt closet 

another of the yard

a little mishap 

that my cheyenne yard in the house i had in new hampshire
then my son took it over in 2007 so it got made into guilford/ pan am railway

no steam in sight  

here a local guys layout & thats my MTH 757 B4 i moved to fla,man i miss basements

johathan, thank you so much for the advice here & the prompt reply to the private message 

 im going with tsu-1000 heavy steam decoder 

i know im necroposting but this is valuable info for us guys that got an EM-1 for christmas