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good to know a phillips works better for uncoupling in Z, than a flat head. I have been using a small dagger shaped piece of brass on the end of a swizzle stick which was better than a flat head screw driver. My cars have some additional weight with body mount couplers and metal wheel sets Thanks for this

Perfect for children

If those are DC how are they running together?

Great video. Couldn’t help but notice the Cubs shirt. I was born in Burlington Iowa. We had the Burlington Bees farm club for Chicago Cubs. I saw Billy Williams play his last game at Burlington. My dad was transferred with the CB&Q to Chicago. We lived in Aurora to avoid the Chicago congestion. My dad took me to see the opening day in 1959 at Wriggly and saw Billy play his first game as a Cubbie. Great memories.

great lil layout and making it into a game of thought is very interesting.

I have an N scale model locomotive!

Overpriced

been trying to get into this hobby but lack the space, was originally considering N-scale but now i'm starting to see how z-scale might actually fit quite well for my current situation.

That is a really sweet little control panel. Looks really cool too. I need to pick one up for sure!! Thanks for the video!

I have the same setup except I used one of those old school DPDT switches with the big silver baseball bat handle. And as was mentioned below, I had to use a DYMO labeler to make a label as to which system was which. One warning from my HO scale DCC/DC days - we don't want to have DC locomotives in powered sections of track when turning on the DCC systems. Bad things can happen.

That price is so unrealistic it’s not even funny. I’ll stick the Kato pack.

How would you compare the smoothness to a kato powerpack? I always find them to be really smooth but I’d be keen if there was better

what scale ?

I have a marklin train set with rails and engines from 1965 till 1975 with an inverter for 110. Now I haven't run the set since 1980 and was wondering what kind of maintenance I should preform before running the engines. I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me. I live in northwest Tennessee.

Love this!

I was about to say make sure those gp 40's are dcc ready. The older n scale chasis for these are a mess and hard to get decoders in. I have both in my collection.

So groovy! ❤🎉

At 4:16 you show the connectors for your two power supplies. Two questions: Are these simply 12V DC adapters that plug into a wall socket? Is it possible to use only one 12V power supply for both DC and DCC wiring by inserting the DPDT switch at the point where the single power supply comes in and then wire the two controllers to the switch?

Got plenty of hot glue. So I'll go easy on that. Great way to spend the 4th😂

Steve, Where did you obtain the Apollo controllers. Have a link? Thanks.

do your dcc switches still work in DC Mode?

Add ground foam and textures was my fav park 🤣🤣🤣

There is no reason any layout cannot be both Dcc and Dc.One switch will do the job.

not the best image

I use a DPDT switch on my layout. I was always forgetting which way was DC and which way was DCC. I bought a Dymo label maker to make little labels for ease of identification.

Huh, too funny... The Apollo controller has a design similar to a certain PC train sim... Auran Trainz.... Both are from Australia... Coincidence I think not!

*Before* you apply DC power to your DCC bus, *please* carefully review your layout for DCC compatible electronics which might be connected to your DCC track bus. Do you have any stationary decoders (e.g. NCE Switch-It or Switch-8, or NCE Light-It) installed? Do you have any Frog Juicers installed? Do you have any block occupancy detectors installed? Do you have any power management circuits installed? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, proceed *very* carefully. At best, your DCC add-ons will not work. At worst, you may fry one or more of these components.

Super 👍👍👍

Thanks for the behind the scenes video.. not many people show what goes on in the background and how they do it.. I am looking for some lights and I will check out the brand you mention in your info.. Thanks very much for this. For my videos, I use my Samsung S6 and S22 phones to make my videos and I do my editing on my PC using OpenShot video editor which is open-source and Free and has no watermarks so it suits me just great. And Yes I totally agree with you on the editing time... more time for playing trains I would love.. lol.

I love this video

I love this video

so when you switch from DCC to DC do you leave the DCC equipped locomotives on the layout. what happens if DC current is applied to a DCC decoder?

Amazing....creativity

Good deal. I recently purchased some Kato DC locomotives and added DC control to my layout in addition to the existing DCC. I am using an old PC power supply for all my power needs except DCC. These new new DC locos run so well out of the box I may never add a decoder to them. I just dont see the need.

Even better, set up DCC-EX and you can control the layout in DC mode using DCC controllers!

Hi Steve - What company did you use for shipping??

That's nice but I can't just watch it go in circles

Ups, forgot, 🤔 what size would that be in N? thanks tons!! 🤙🏻👍🏼👏👏👏

Showoff video is fine, though I would appreciate if you could do it at a slower speed, maybe at the end. Sorry I've got accustomed to slower -more real- pace, and this rushing around for you-t-be squeeze timinig bothers. Great video, though 🤙🏻👍🏼👏👏👏 cheers

So Steve, what is wrong with a SD40-2? They are one of my favorite locomotives.

Awesome 👍🏻

200th like right here

Hi Steve. Great design. I am using this as the basis for my first model (modified a bit--I am adding a little station at the front on the lower level, and not including the third layer). But I hope it will look decent when it is done.

So awesome

so steve just wondering I notice you are always on n scale I guess you have no room for any other scale what is it about n scale that attracts people to that particular scale other than space

Interesting layouts and some likely ideas that can be used.

america doesn't have sets you can buy and operate even if you have to buy it from a forien country

Awesome 👍👍👍!!!

What manufacturer locomotive is this? I’m very interested in this scale, but clueless about locomotives available!

Wow!!! Great project!!! Good job!.