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DCC Wiring

How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 3 – Adding a Smart Booster
Nov 15, 2016

How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 3 – Adding a Smart Booster

Enhancing our project layout’s Digital Command Control system to allow additional cabs requires the installation of a power booster. In…

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How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 2 – Adding a cab bus
Nov 12, 2016

How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 2 – Adding a cab bus

Ready for the next step to installing Digital Command Control on a large model railroad? In this episode, David keeps…

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How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 4 – Setting up power districts
Nov 11, 2016

How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 4 – Setting up power districts

Tired of hassling with an entire layout shutdown when a single train derails on your DCC layout? We certainly were!…

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How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 1 – Bus lines
Oct 20, 2016

How-to Library: DCC Installation for large layouts, Part 1 – Bus lines

In this all-new MRVP series, watch and learn as David Popp walks you through, step-by-step, the full sequence for installing…

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Video: Automate the sound on your LGB circus car
Apr 22, 2016

Video: Automate the sound on your LGB circus car

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VIDEO: Accucraft’s Southern Pacific 2-6-0
Apr 25, 2014

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DCC Programming: episode 4 – locomotive speed matching
Jan 20, 2014

DCC Programming: episode 4 – locomotive speed matching

Having trouble viewing this video?   Please visit our Video FAQ page   MR Senior Editor Dana Kawala walks you…

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How-To Library: Install an N scale drop-in decoder in a Kato MP36PH
Oct 15, 2013

How-To Library: Install an N scale drop-in decoder in a Kato MP36PH

Drop-in decoders make installing DCC in N scale locomotives about as easy as it gets. In this video David shows…

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Walthers HO scale Railtech Digital Command Control diesel train set
Apr 20, 2013

Walthers HO scale Railtech Digital Command Control diesel train set

Model Railroader’s Steven Otte looks at Walthers new HO scale Railtech train set with DCC. In this video, Steve shows…

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How to install a DCC decoder in a Stewart F-unit
Apr 9, 2013

How to install a DCC decoder in a Stewart F-unit

Terry Thompson shows you how to install a basic NCE Digital Command Control decoder in a Stewart HO scale F-unit.…

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Build a lighthouse beacon or Mars light
Feb 22, 2013

Build a lighthouse beacon or Mars light

In the April 2013 issue, David Bodnar presents three lighting projects using a Picaxe controller and an LED. In this…

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