One of the Classic releases from Atlas were the GP35's that were closely based on the mechanism made for them by Kato several years earl...

This old Kato mechanism is one of my favorites and I think I've done more of these types of installations than any other.  The same mech...

While the options for installing DCC decoders in N scale engines without the need to do major modifications to the frame are much better tha...

As I model the Southern Pacific, many of my engines have the nose lights modeled but not lighted.  It's easy to add this type of ...

It's been a couple of months since I've posted anything but I have been kept busy with installs.  They've mostly been routine on...

The Atlas SD7 and SD9 releases from the early 1990's that were made by Kato work very well with the TCS CN-GP decoder.  This example u...

Anyone who has followed this blog will notice that I am a fan of TCS decoders and use a lot of their Z2 model.  I have found it to be a grea...