Q: I’m trying to decide on which turnout controller to use on my HO scale railroad. I’ve looked at the Tortoise by Circuitron and the Walthers Layout Control System. I like Walthers products, but it ...

News & Products for the week of April 13th 2026 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, tools, track, and more by reading ...

A hardware and software design to connect a Raspberry Pi to a NMRA compliant DCC system, decode the DCC signal and display the output on the screen. As-is it is a "DCC Sniffer", but with minor ...

Austin to install digital kiosks Austin council members approved new kiosks, and the company that's installing them will generate revenue through advertising, which will be shared with the city.

Road names: New paint schemes — Metra, CSX (ex-Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac), GATX Leasing, Grand Trunk Western, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Norfolk Southern, Soo Line ...

dcc-mcp-blender turns Blender into a first-class MCP server. Once the addon is enabled, any MCP client (Claude Desktop, custom agents, etc.) can call Blender tools over HTTP without any external ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin to lead Homeland Security, installing Trump ally at department grappling with shutdown.

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