This material first appeared on my old web site in 2004. In the late 80's Kato introduced some nice models of the GP38-2 and the GP50 ...

Happy New Year and welcome to another year of N Scale DCC decoder installs.  During the past year DCC equipped engines have become the major...

This is going to be another one of those posts where I wander a bit from the installation of DCC decoders but  this is good stuff to know if...

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 ...