from northern NJ.   Heard stories about the Mahanoy Plane from family that grew up there.

interested in most aspects of model railroading, but my technical background often draws me into electronic and software aspects of hobby.

• Building small (30 sq ft) DCC point to point layout, member of Pacific Southern RR
• hand-laid turnouts (Tony Koester method)
• vertical staging elevator (photo)
• NCE compatible Arduino cab
• networked Arduino signal system and graphical layout display on laptop
• Arduino turntable: optical position and friction drive
• helping others build layouts and changes to Pacific Southern Railway
• Developed custom PCB and Arduino code for west interlock on New Haven model RR
• Simple block detector
• Adding Encoder to Older Walthers Turntable to Support Indexing with PID Control
• helped make possible Remote Operating Sessions on Pacific Southern Railway
• working on modeling steam locomotive physics and braking
• developed NCE compatible USB Adapter using Arduino Mega