Login
or
Register
Subscriber & Member Login
Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!
Login
Register
Home
»
Model Railroader
»
Forums
»
General Discussion (Model Railroader)
»
I wanna play train! or Trouble is I don't know anything about model railroading.
Edit topic
Updated your discussion topic below.
Subject
Enter a subject for your topic. Maximum 150 characters.
Post Body
Enter your post below.
After what seems like months of waiting--in reality 2.5 weeks-- tomorrow I get to work on my train. It used to be a cooperative train (mine and our five-year-old son), but my obsession usurped his interest and now he tells me he'll be back when the wheels are rolling. Anyway my wife has been out of the hospital for over a week, our baby is doing very well, all things considered, and I have been sneaking into the garage after school and finishing up the benchwork and electrical stuff. So in my skewed perspective I believe it is now relatively safe to venture back into what my wife has curtly termed,"my little train world." <br />Trouble is I don't know anything about model railroading, and don't know what to do with myself. While she was hospitalized I ordered a few, okay seven freight car kits. I can put these together over the weekend. But I want to see the train run. Before everything went haywire in my life I bought an Athern F7 AB set. It has never been operated. I was thinking I could go buy the Digitrax Zephyr control deal at the Hobby Town near me and just set up a loop of the true track I have to watch it run. Trouble is I don't know anything about model railroading. <br /> I think from generalized observation that the engine, while being "DCC ready" doesn't need to possess a decoder to operate, nor does the Zephyr require a single engine to have the decoder. Is this true? Can I just plug the stuff into the outlet for now to see it run? <br />Furthermore, I am already tired of the loop the <i><i>train not traveled </i></i>is running on. I want turnouts. Trouble is I don't know anything about model railroading. Ideally something is available that will simply satiate my wants right now; quick and easy turnouts. However I do in the very near future, as my knowledge grows, want to have fully operational turnouts (I am not certain of the terminology, would this be a DCC turnout?) that are remote controlled. Is something like this available? A turnout that I can have fun with out of the box and later upgrade to remote control? Forgive my lexicon if it is incorrect. <br />So if any of you knowledgable veterans can shed some light on this I will be happily sneaking into the garage at 5:00 Saturday morning to play train before everyone wakes up. <br />Respectfully, <br />Jacob <br />
Tags (Optional)
Tags are keywords that get attached to your post. They are used to categorize your submission and make it easier to search for. To add tags to your post type a tag into the box below and click the "Add Tag" button.
Add Tag
E-mail Subscribe
Check the box below if you want to receive e-mail notifications when replies are made to this thread.
Receive notifications
Update Discussion Topic
Subscriber & Member Login
Login, or register today to interact in our online community, comment on articles, receive our newsletter, manage your account online and more!
Login
Register
Users Online
RailfanGXY
see all »
Search the Community
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Model Railroader Newsletter
See all
Sign up for our FREE e-newsletter
and get model railroad news in your inbox!
Sign up