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NEW!  A Rotating Conductor for Mr. Baldwin's Trolley
NEW!  Build an Inexpensive Model Train Power Controller
NEW!  Adapting an O-Scale Layout for Push-Button Operation
NEW!  160 LEDs Chasing After Each Other
NEW!  Supplying DC Power to a Rotating Object
NEW!  Smoke Animation using an E-Cigarette's Heating Element
NEW!  Servo Animation with Multiple Sounds
NEW!  Another Inexpensive Radio Control Experiment
NEW!  Updated Lighthouse with 24 LED Module
NEW!  7 Foot Long Aluminum Bridge
NEW!  3D Printed Bridge
NEW!  3D Printed / Flash Camera Gizmo for Children's Hospital
NEW!  Inexpensive 8 Amp Radio Control
NEW!  Quick review of Neverwet from Rustoleum
NEW!  Connectors for Garden Railway Applications
NEW!  Bug Eyed Eggliner Animation
NEW!  LED Lights for Coaches
NEW!  Laser Train Detection
NEW!  PICAXE Speed Controller with MP3 Sound Option
NEW!  PICAXE Model Railroad Speed Controller
NEW!  PICAXE Model Railroad Recorder
NEW!  PICAXE Model Railroad Controller - high amperage modification

PICAXE USB Programming Cable Modification
PICAXE on a Mac with AXE Pad (really!)
PICAXE or PIC?  Which to Use?
Aristo Craft's Revolution Radio Control System
PCC Trolley Notes
Mr. Rogers Trolley

 
Reverse Loops & Wyes
Animation
Layout Animation
Robot Trains in the Garden - A PICAXE controlled Train

Robot Train Cruise Control
 
Automatic Block Switch Controller
Your Trains can Accelerate and Decelerate Smoothly

Give Your Engines the Capacity to Ignore Dirty Track

 Thermistors, the Magic Behind Smooth Acceleration
 
LED Related Articles:

Multi-Function Crossing Controller (NEW!)

A Lighting System for Mr. Rogers Trolley (drilling LEDs)

Ditch Lights Article

Mars Light Article

Lighthouse Beacon

Morse Code Flasher

LED Lighting with Larger Solar Panels

LED Signal Lights for LGB Switch Motors
 
DCC

Automatic DCC Controller Project
Timers & Auto-Reversing

BARC - Excellent Auto-Reverse Unit
LED Display Timer
 Timers for Model Railroad Applications
Part I
 Timers for Model Railroad Applications
Part II

Christmas Display Control / Timer
 Dual Timer - Dual Relay
Sensors
Sound

A Four Sound USB Sound Card & the PCC Trolley (NEW!)

A Very Capable, Inexpensive MP3 Sound System

 MP3 Sound System - Flexible high, quality sound

Synthesized Train Sound Boards

Give Your Railroad a Voice Part II
 
Electronics (Miscellaneous)

DC to DC Step Down Converters
Using Voltage Regulators to Supply 5 volts
 Adding a "Crowbar" to Your Power Supply
Harbor Freight Volt Meter Modification
Using a Multimeter to Troubleshoot and Test Trains
Buildings & Miscellaneous

Foam for Buildings
Color Signs with a Monochrome Laser Printer!
 Train Toter
A New Incline in Pittsburgh
NEW!  Working Model of Pittsburgh's Duquesne Incline Made With Laser Cutter
NEW!  Incline Power Controller (Arduino)
An Unexamined Railroad Is Not Worth Running - Using an inexpensive pedometer to count "events" on your railroad
A Most Unusual Layout!

Lazy Susan Train