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Magazine Articles By Brian Scace
Easements for the Learning Curve
Magazine:
O Scale Trains 32 May 2007
Page:
11
Category:
Layout Design
The author had people over to his layout to review layout-presentation ideas he has implemented. He learned to just watch what his visitors did to help improve his layout. Operating may be a way to extend the owner's enjoyment of his layout when the layout's projects are complete.
Easements for the Learning Curve
Magazine:
O Scale Trains 33 July 2007
Page:
11
Category:
Layout Construction
The author discusses turnout placement, making sure to have enough electrical power (e.g. adding dedicated circuits for the layout room), filling rail gaps with something/anything, reverse curves (s-curves), and hidden trackage.
When is DCC Not DCC
Magazine:
O Scale Resource 2021-09/10
Page:
70
Category:
Electronics
The author doesn't want to upgrade all of his engines to DCC, but yet he wants the convenience of using a non-tethered hand-held controller. His solution is to use a very large DCC decoder that runs the entire layout.