Please don’t power electronics from your old “DC” power pack. It’s a rare day when I see a layout that doesn’t have a cheap train set power pack powering some accessory somewhere in a corner. It makes me shudder every time I see it, because if it’s powering any electronics, that’s just asking for trouble. […]
New from Iowa Scaled Engineering, the Motorman is an automatic reversing train shuttle controller for both DC and DCC locomotives. Using TrainSpotter infrared proximity detectors at each end, the Motorman will continuously drive the train back and forth, automatically stopping and reversing at the end of track. With control of the speed, locomotive address, delay […]
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Update (19 Jan 2021): Caboose has made good on their debts as of today. Checks arrived to both me personally and to ISE this afternoon, and they have been deposited. We want to thank Kevin and Caboose for repaying these long-outstanding debts. We consider the issue resolved and wish Kevin and Caboose success in future […]
Starting next Monday (September 28) we will be auctioning a custom painted and weathered EMD/Alco “tan” ProtoThottle on eBay. ALL proceeds benefit the Princess Margaret Cancer Hospital. Please consider a bid on this unique throttle and/or share with others who may be interested. Thank you!
Most of us consider ourselves serious model railroaders – very much into prototype modeling, or at least prototype-based freelance modeling. Michael and Scott are more in the former category, I’m more in the second. But sometimes you just want to see a train run while you’re working. A bit over four years ago, Michael put […]
One of my summer projects for 2020, while spending all day, every day at home, was to finally get my railroad signal restored and up in my back yard. It’s a hodge-podge that’s the end result of 18 months of collecting the necessary parts. The head is a Union Switch & Signal H-2 style searchlight […]
Our (very) limited edition olive green faceplate ProtoThrottles are back from final machining. We assembled them last night along with a number of regular throttles. Since it’s an experimental color and there’s such a small number of them, we’ll be releasing them in the ISE Store on 5/13 at 5:13pm MDT for $513. As a […]
James McNab posted a nice write-up on his ProtoThrottle setup using CVP’s EasyDCC system. See the post here.
