I've been making pretty good progress in gettting my train room finished.  So good, in fact, that I think I can start laying track within a week to ten days.  Construction will be pretty conventional with sectional open grid benchwork hung from the wall, flex track, DCC, and some decisions still to be made.  Total size is about 64 sq ft arranged as a shelf around the room.  The track plan is based on a published plan by Iain Rice, but with a little more room for scenery.  If there is any interest, I'd be glad to post pics of the layout as construction rolls along.  Perhaps some of our younger members could pick up a tip or two, and some of our armchair members might get the idea that building a layout isn't that hard, but sure is a lot of fun.  Let me know if you're interested.
Old Timer

Does anyone who owns a Bachmann 2-8-4 feel like commenting on how you think it runs.  I'm more interested in DCC performance, but DC performance is important, too.  If you are running DCC, are you using a factory decoder install or did you put in a decoder from another source?  Thanks much.

Does anyone have any experience with the (sort of) new Bachmann geeps?  I'm particularly interested in slow speed performance on DCC.  Thanks.
Old Timer