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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by sschaer[/i] [br]not really too much done in the last two weeks. lots of other things going on. at least i could start work on the bridge on the other side of the house. first few feet will be deck bridges going around a curve. i will post pictures as soon as there's enough to see. i also fixed an issue on my n-scale layout. after a short my digitrax booster was not able to turn on again. took me a while to figure that one out. as some of you might know i use tam valley servo decoder and frog juicer. seems like it is important which way around the servo turns. changing rotation by 180 degrees by programming is a really bad idea. why ? because of the default position of the servo the turnout might have opposite polarization then the frog juicer. resulting in an immediate shutdown again. so i had to turn two servos by 180 degrees and reset their endpoints. short fixed. to test the whole thing i ran some trains up and down the hill. should have cleaned the track first. after derailing because of some debris on the track 4 cars took a nose dive from 5ft down to the floor. damaged, but i was able to fix them again. i really should start with the landscape. this should prevent cars from fallig "off the earth". stay tuned. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.