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Rail:
Model Railroad Clubs in the New
York
Queens County Model Railroad Association / Empire Valley
Main Page @ empirevalleyrr.org Our official
page
Flickr: Queens County Model Railroad Association and Empire Valley RR As of 2008/04/02, this one has 36 photos, all of which are mine and are different from the pictures on the other pages.
Queens County Model Railroad Association
1-718-392-1124
E-mail: JTunnel@aol.com
Phone 1-718-392-1124
Contact: John McCluskey
The HO Scale club has a 35' x 65' layout area and wireless DCC train control.
Everything from Steam to Diesel to Traction has a place here. Beginner to
advanced model railroaders are welcomed, as a visitor or future member. We have
been in the same location since the late 1940's and are continuing to build our
fifth layout.
For more information,
send email to JTunnel@aol.com and CC:AYusko@delphiforums.com so I know that
we're reaching anyone through here. Try not to use a "quote source"
option, there's no need to send a copy of the whole web page with your message.
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Picture "EV_RR_1.jpg":
Empire Valley FP45 4053 and F45 4003 pull a train past Walden Pond.
Picture "NorthRiverFloat.jpg":
Model of the
Picture "FintansCorner.jpg":
Such a fine place to have a passing meet. I'll meet you at Fintan's Corner. The first pint is on you!
Picture "EV_RR_CP_River.jpg":
EV RR CP River
Updated:
I have to fix some of the Division names.
A text map of the EV:
* Mechanicville
|
* AY *
| |
*.........*----------*------------------------------ |
trackage rights BI Ulster Division \|
*
\North KI *
North even
\| even |
West odd + East even
West + East *-<| Empire
Division
South odd odd |\ |
South\ /
SH * Schneider yard,
-------*----------------------------
/
|
*
This schematic map of the
Note about trains:
The
The
railroad is electrified from
The visible portion of the layout is from Schneider yard in
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Association
Do not copy without permission.
RailNutterNews, including Empire Valley, Qns Cy Model RR Assn [at RailNutterNews]
Other Model Railroad Clubs in the New
York
New York Society of Model Engineers, including New York Society of Model Engineers [Exhibition Information] was Community Connection: NYSME New York Society of Model Engineers
Garden State Model Railway Club, Inc. Garden State Northern Railroad in HO Scale. Next door is: Model Engineers RR Club of North Jersey O Scale
TMRCI - The Model Railroad Club, Inc. Union NJ.
The West Island Model Railroad Club, The West Island Model Railroad Club in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, The Allegheny & Western Railroad
Long Island Live Steamers Front Page
N.Y.City Model Transit "EL" & Trolley System in "O" Scale, Work (Non Revenue) Equipment - NY City Model Transit System
North West Jersey
Hi-Railers located in
Index
of /clubs, http://www.modelrailroadshopper.com/clubs/Model Railroad
Shopper--New York.
Grand Central Railway Station of Cyberspace,
(Con-Cor's Grand Central Railway Station of Cyberspace.), Model Railroad Clubs.
The NJ, NY and CT Railroad Page.
Railroads in the New York
Penny
Bridge., including NYC Car
Floats
NYO&W M.S.I.G. FRONT
DOOR.
“New Page 2” or New Page 2 [
Webshots Community - Newtown Railroad
“Page 1”
[
Hell Gate Bridge, Hell Gate Bridge, Greater Astoria Historical Society
HELL GATE—THE LARGEST ARCH BRIDGE IN THE WORLD
Petition Spot - The Transit Fan's Plea
Trainworld and Trainland on the Web 718-436-7072
All~Gauge Hobby Supply Company [Manhattan Train & Hobby Inc], All~Gauge Hobby Supply Company
DCC:
The first thing to know about the Digital Command Control standard is that it only specifies the track signal, so any system can still only use one or a few brands and models of throttles or cabs. But any DCC system should control any DCC decoder properly, at least for basic features, such as locomotive speed and direction. Certain other features are optional. They are compatible between different brands, but can only be used if the system, decoder, and throttle or other input device all support them. Some brands also have features that are not part of the standard, and are not compatible with different brands of equipment.
National Model Railroad Association, including NMRA St&RPs Introduction
Calculation of CV settings for 4-digit (long) address
CVP EasyDCC:
CVP Products
Yahoo! Groups : easydcc
The club has a CVP Products’ EasyDCC system, now working on most of the main
tracks.
F0-F8 can be turned on and off from the command station or the newer throttles
(e.g. RF1300-4), F0-F4 from the older throttles (e.g. TX904-E). That’s usually
not a problem, but sound decoders might need more. For example, SoundTraxx mute
requires F7 or F8. This can be partially overcome by setting certain CV’s
correctly. See my comments under “SoundTraxx” below.
Radio throttles are available.
Accessory decoders 1-2048 “<2045” can be controlled from the command
station, 1-99 from any other throttle.
The range for a short address or advanced consist is 1-99, long address
100-9999, standard consist is lead locomotive number 1-9999 [new EPROM]. The
DCC standard allows both short and long addresses from 1-127, which are
distinct from each other even when they have the same numerical value. It
should be easy to reset any decoder’s address at any time, so don’t worry if
you need to do so.
The command station has 127 active address slots. If more than that number of
locomotive addresses is used, some things will be reset, such as the default of
the command station sending 14 speed steps. At that point you might have to
re-enter the Setup Loco command to make the command station and decoder
agree on the number of speed steps.
The range for a throttle ID is 1-99. The default is 63. All throttles in use at
the same time need different ID’s. They’re easy to set; the only job is keeping
track of what numbers are free.
The command station uses 2 AAA, the RF1300-4 and older TX904-E wireless/radio
throttles use 4 AAA.
They don’t currently offer decoders, so use any brand of DCC compatible
decoders.
NCE Corporation:
NCE Corporation
ProCab includes all the features that other systems only have at the command
station, including a display, but it also costs more. Radio cabs were available
from Tony's Train Exchange starting February 23, 2002. NCE radio supports 15
ProCabs (Cab Addresses 3-17) and 31 Engineer's Cabs or ProCabs without the
display working (19-49).
Decoder does not support headlight control in 14-speed mode. It will
operate the motor and F1-F8 correctly with all systems, however the headlight
may not operate correctly with older systems. Use Setup Loco for CVP
EasyDCC to transmit 28 or 128 speed steps for that address.
Decoders have CV5 (Vmax) and CV6 (Vmid), and CV21 and CV22 (Functions active in
consist mode).
SoundTraxx:
Welcome
to SOUNDTRAXXTM Throttle Up! Corp. Throttle Up!/SoundTraxx
Mute requires F7 or F8. If it is difficult or impossible to control these
functions with your system, this can be partially overcome by setting certain
CV’s correctly. For steam DSD, CV 53 is the "sound configuration byte
#3". For diesel DSD, use CV 56. For the LC Series Digital Sound Decoders,
use CV 113. If you set the "quiet" bit (bit 0) to 1, then "sound
turns on only when the DSD receives a packet with a matching address". If
the locomotive is decommissioned (no throttles selected to it) it will cause
the sound to be turned off after a period of time as set by CV 11 (Packet Time
Out Value). Time Out Period = CV11 X 10 seconds A CV value of 0 disables the
time out period and the locomotive will run indefinitely without receiving
another packet. This is based on .pdf files from: Welcome to SOUNDTRAXXTM
©1998 Throttle Up! Corp. ©2001 Throttle Up! Corp. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.railwayeng.com/dsx_cvs.htm
??
http://www.railway-eng.com/dsx_cvs.htm
[Conflicts between Soundtraxx DSX and Motor Decoders], part of Railway Engineering.
Not for use with track voltages above 16 volts. Be careful setting power
station output.
Decoders have CV 66 (Forward Trim) and CV 95 (Reverse Trim), and CV21 and CV22
(Functions active in consist mode).
Lenz Elektronik, GmbH:
Digital Plus by Lenz,
including Configuration
Variables for Version 4.3 XF Lenz NMRA DCC Decoders, LENZ GmbH XPA XpressNet
Phone Adapter
Decoders don’t seem to support CV5 (Vmax), use CV67-94 to set an entire speed
table instead. Don’t have CV21 and CV22 (Functions active in consist mode).
Atlas Model Railroad Co., Inc.:
Atlas Model Railroad Co. -
HO & N Scale Model Trains, including Atlas Railroad Company, Inc.
[Welcome To Atlas Master Dcc]
The Atlas HO Dual-Mode Decoder - Item #340 is made by Lenz (Lenz =99). The
Atlas documentation even says: Manufacturers Identification (Atlas=127).
Factory Setting 99.
Digitrax, Inc.:
Digitrax, Inc. Home Page
The Digitrax system seems more complicated than most of the others and they
seem to have a high rate of returns.
Digitrax .pdf doesn’t look as good as it could. It’s too small and page numbers
don’t match the way Adobe Acrobat Reader shows them.
CV5 (Vmax) and CV6 (Vmid) are in “Gen 4+” decoders, but not CV21 and CV22
(Functions active in consist mode).
Train Control Systems (TCS):
tcsweb
Decoders have CV5 (Vmax) and CV6 (Vmid), and CV21 and CV22 (Functions active in
consist mode), CV56 CV57 (Dither parameters).
Life-Like Products:
Welcome to Life-Like Products They’re supposed to be coming up with a fix for a shorting problem with the S1.
MRC:
Model Rectifier
Corporation - Home
MRC decoders only support short addresses, so I don’t recommend them.
The address range of 1-127, or 1-99 for CVP EasyDCC, must also be used for
advanced consists, so there will be a problem if there are too many of these in
a club. Perhaps each member will only be allowed to use one or two numbers in
this range, and you’ll have to physically remove locomotives with MRC decoders
when you’re not running them. They’re not that much cheaper for this to be
worthwhile. I’ve had some problems getting them to work at all on a CVP EasyDCC
system.
M.T.H. Electric Trains:
MTH Electric Trains [HO], part of MTH Electric Trains
Broadway Limited Imports:
Broadway
Limited Imports HO Scale Locomotives, including Broadway Limited Imports
- Listen to the sounds
I couldn’t get the .mp3’s on this site to work. They turned into .htm’s that
displayed as garbage, rather than playing. The .wav’s
worked and sound good, though. I sent email about it, but they don’t know
what’s wrong. UPDATE: Now the .mp3’s work, but the .wav’s
are gone. Go figure.
B:
Tower 55 .
Other DCC:
Tony's Train Exchange,
Supporting More Command Control Systems Than Anyone., Tony's Train Exchange - Main Page.,
including SOUNDTRAXX
HEATS UP WITH ATLAS DCC
The product page for each manufacturer has a link to each manufacturer’s own
site.
Stormy Acres, Home of Storm Enterprises, including Storm Enterprises Product List
Allan Gartner's Wiring for DCC - Home (Index) Page, including Wiring for DCC by Allan Gartner - Turnouts, Wiring for DCC by Allan Gartner - Links to Manufacturers
DecoderPro Symbolic Programmer
Wayne Rodericks Teton Short Line, Staging, Digital Command Control (DCC) on the Teton Short Line An HO Scale Model Railroad featuring do-it-yourself electronics, computers, DCC and operations, Pocatello Model Railroad and historical Society
Burnt Hills and Big Flats Homepage
Non-DCC:
Aristo-Craft Trains: The Train Engineer Welcome to the Aristo-Craft Trains Internet Depot This allows radio throttles to control unmodified locomotives. You’d have to have and throw a cab selector switch for each electrical section in this case. One setting could be for all the DCC locomotives and/or ones with a radio receiver built in, I believe (this IS available for HO).
Other Railroad:
I subscribe to Model
Railroader from Kalmbach Publishing Co.
Alex A. Yusko's
Kalmbach notes page..
Walthers Model Railroad Mall --
main page
Atlas Model Railroad Company.
Kato USA: Precision Railroad Models
The KCS Historical
Society's Web Site
Kansas City Southern Industries Home Page -
class 1 railroad
Railroad
page. of Fred Ochs,
aka Dirk.
Z-World. Old
Z-World.
A Trolley Fan's
Page.
Official MTA Home Page.
Swedish
railways.
Classic Rail Cars, ... Calendar
of Railroadiana Events.
Railfans Only, part of Welcome to AAR - AAR News
Mike Palmieri's LOUISIANA·RAIL·SITE, LRMRG [Louisiana Railfan & Model Railroad Group], MEXICAN RAILWAYS
Home
[Silicon Valley Lines is an HO model railroad club located in
Model Train Graphics: Creative Details for your Train Layout
W&H MAIN YARDS: Quick State Railroad Map Links
Railroading in the North East, including Early EMD Diesel Railroad Locomotives - NE Rails
http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/index.asp [Rensselaer Model Railroad Society's Railroad Heritage Center, fictitious New England Berkshire & Western, NEB&W]
Fallen Flag Railroad Photos, including Donation
XCLent Design Model Railways Home Page
Railroad Industry Special Interest Group, including RRISIG News and Events
mdodd.com [Mike Dodd's Virginian Railway, HO scale, set in 1954]
http://home.att.net/~cycleriders/Mad_River_Waybill.htm Lee Solomon’s Waybill generator for model railroaders, a free Windows program.
Welcome to Operation Lifesaver
I was working on adding a link about the years certain milk
cars would’ve been around today (2005/10/22), and I started to think it would
be nice to have a Star Trek replicator that could make a whole set of models
that would be appropriate for a certain date, but then I realized it would be
better to have the model railroad layout on the holodeck, so it could be to
actual scale, where hundreds of miles in the prototype is represented by a
layout a few miles long. Most people can walk the speed of an HO scale train,
and I’m usually standing for a couple of hours for an operating session anyway.
If being that realistic means you can’t finish, just save it until next Friday.
A group of people could have some seeing the trains in scale, while others
could be running the trains from inside. Maybe that would take using all the holodecks on the
Ring Engineering Inc. End of Train Device
Railroad Games:
Microsoft Train Simulator:
I highly recommend Microsoft Train Simulator (MS TS) to anyone who wants an approximation of what it’s like to operate a real train. Keep in mind, though, that there are times you’ll spend a few minutes mostly watching the scenery go by, then have to do something so fast that the interface makes it harder than it should be. It would be easy to move a real control in your hand in a fraction of a second, but with my settings, key repeat takes a few seconds to operate continuous controls in TS, or you can spend time and effort pointing to the right place with your mouse, which also requires you to go to cab view first. Remember that you might be going a few hundred feet in those few seconds, and you might run past the end of the track, or have the program put the brakes into emergency and stop the train for you just because it doesn’t have an input like the real thing. I’ve also had some consists (sets of cars) that are programmed to be so sensitive that I’m told I’ve jostled the passengers or damaged the freight every 30 seconds by my roughness when I actually had the train at a dead stop for a few minutes, which I only did to find out it really wasn’t my fault at all, of course.
In Usa1 (NEC): “After the Storm”, there’s a point when you’re expected to reduce speed from a limit of 110 miles per hour to 45 with about 600 feet or 4 seconds warning. You’re pretty much guaranteed to get a penalty brake application unless you know what’s coming just from the fact that the simulation will be the same every time if your actions don’t change things. Later on, you’re supposed to take a crossover at up to 120 miles per hour, and there’s no signal within 7 miles approaching it. In real life, these would both be serious physical defects on the ground somewhere.
Did I remember to say that I like the program a lot? It is a lot more realistic than trying to use a joystick with a racing game or two, where I keep swerving left and right while just trying to go straight at modest speed. I had no trouble with that the first time I ever drove a real car.
Rf&RR 1988/12 pages 59-69 “Mountain Pass Marias” on the GN.
Usenet Discussion Newsgroups about Railroads and models:
FAQ from newsgroups:
(2 different sources):rec.models.railroad FAQ.
rec.models.railroad FAQ.
The newsgroups themselves:
rec.models.railroad
rec.railroad [This has been replaced by:]
misc.transport.rail.americas
misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
misc.transport.rail.europe
misc.transport.rail.misc
nyc.transit
misc.transport.urban-transit
alt.binaries.pictures.rail
alt.railroad
bit.listserv.railroad
aus.rail
fr.misc.transport.rail
de.rec.modelle
Railroad related stock quotes and news:
Remember that the selection
of securities for purchase or sale is well beyond the topic of my railroad
page. It is safest to consider this as only being interesting information.
Yahoo! Finance, including Yahoo!
Finance - (27) ^SPRAIL ... GTRN, quotes and news, Yahoo! Finance - Ticker Symbol
Lookup [rail].
Yahoo! Finance [-]
Company and Fund Index, including Yahoo / Market Guide -
Railroads.
Kansas City Southern Industries Home Page - class 1 railroad
... Railroads ...:
Milk Trains
Remembering the Rutland, including Remembering the Milk Trains, …: According to “Q&A p_4” [AAY: replace with the link] Q. #36, General American Car Company and the Pfaudler Company jointly formed the 'General American-Pfaudler Corporation' around 1930, and reporting marks would change from GARE to GPEX. Personally, I’m just mixing rolling stock from the 30’s through the 50’s, since the rest of my club will also have modern trains. Those who model a specific era might want to be more careful.
Milk Trains This one takes some time to load.
D.L.& W. Sussex Branch Memorial: Memories [Riding the Milk Train to Branchville], part of D.L.& W. Sussex Branch Memorial: Main Index.
...
milktrains : Milk Trains History and Modeling, Milk Train group on Yahoo! Finance Groups, part of Yahoo! Groups : Directory : Trains and Railroads
2005/08 issue of Railmodel Journal ...
Milk Cars, part of River Raisin Models [S scale brass railroad oriented models/Fine 3/16 ths Brass Model Trains]
...
Steel
...
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) : The Steel Works Web Site, including Steel Learning Center
Bethlehem Steel, including Bethlehem Steel: Subsidiary Railroads
...
Transportation other than Railroads:
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Off the topic of Railroads:
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