National Model Railroad Association

• 3rd PlanIt Users Email List: For users of or persons interested in 3rd PlanIt, a CAD software package for track planning and designing model railroad layouts. Unofficial. (1/27/00)
  
  
• Allan Gartner's Wiring For DCC: My tips for wiring your trains for DCC plus other modeling interests. (4/10/00)
  
  
• DCC-MB Homepage: DCC-MB is a set of plans for using an MS-DOS computer as a DCC command station. This particular project is aimed at using an old low-end computer. (7/28/97)
  
  
• DCC - PC: Using that old PC for DCC. (2/6/99)
  
  
• DCCWorld: L'unico sito italiano dedicato interamente ai sistemi di controllo digitale per il modellismo ferroviario. (Italian)  (6-23-02)
  
  
• NMRA Convention DCC Presentations: 6 Presentations in PDF format covering many topics of DCC such as Basics, Decoders HW & SW, Wiring, etc. (8-15-04)
  
  
• Digital Command Control Special Interest Group: Encourages the collection, evolution, and dissemination of DCC knowledge. Offers periodic educational activities and publications to further the knowledge and understanding of DCC and related topics. Provides an unbiased forum for discussing issues concerning DCC. (2/15/98)
  
  
• Easy Reversing Loops: Want to us a Reverse Loop, but don't want to "Have To" go DCC? Check this technique... (1-27-04)
  
  
• Electronics On the Teton Short Line: 30+ years of experience. Schematics, hardware & software details on Automatic Cab Control, signaling, Seeking turntable, High Freg' Lighting, Computers, and Do-it-yourself DCC. (3/30/98)
  
  
• Getting Started With NMRA DCC In S Gauge: A getting started guide for NMRA DCC targeted primarily at S gauge modelers. (7/5/00)
  
  
• Halton Hills & Great Lake Railway: Garden Railway dealing specifically with DCC in large scale. (1-14-03)
  
  
• IO Commander: Controlling your conventional and DCC model railroad from a PC. Help consists of telling about my experience on my railroad, offering you hardware design plans, and downloadable software. (11/22/98)
  
  
• Jon's Mechanik Page: Welcome to my Mechanik page. Mechanik is a freeware train simulator with full graphics and sound capabilities. (3/22/00)
  
  
• Ken's Hobby Electronics Page: DIY throttles, block signals, assorted electronics gadgets. Plan to offer for sale circuit boards/kits in mid 1999. (12/6/98)
  
  
• Led Lighting Products: We supply discrete LEDs for the hobbyist and experimentor, for model railroad crossings, engine and passenger light replacement. (2-3-02)
  
  
• Mad River & Big Timber Waybills: Free Windows-based software that generates waybills for modular or permanent railroads. Very flexible and easy to use. (4/10/00)
  
  
• Mark Rollin's HO Model Railroad Page: Simple projects for the modelers, such as flashers, detectors, power supplies, and many more. (10/5/97)
  
  
• Model Electronic Railway Group: A UK based group promoting interest in the application of electronics (including computers) to all aspects of railway modeling. (2/6/98)
  
  
• Model Railroad Related Electronic Circuits: Good information on building throttles for model railroading. (7/28/97)
  
  
• Model Railroading - Continuous Brightness Lighting: Details an effective and easy method to add continuous brightness lighting to your locomotives, even N-Scale, using commonly available parts. With full instructions, diagrams, schematics and resulting photos. (4/8/00)
  
  
• Model Railroading With DCC: Electronic projects, hints & tips, decoder installs, how to, ideas, and more. (5/2/98)
  
  
• NMRA DCC Sig: The SIG mission is to encourage the collection, evolution and dissemination of DCC knowledge. The SIG offers periodic educational activities and publications to further the knowledge and understanding of DCC and related topics. The SIG provides an unbiased forum for discussing issues concerning DCC. (2/15/98)
  
  
• Railways For The World Of The Microsoft Flight Simulator: Do you want to build a software diorama? Here you find the tools needed to build a software model railroad. (11/22/98)
  
  
• Ray's RR, IR and General Interest Pages: Model Railroad related electronic circuits and a pictorial tour of the under construction HO scale Shark River & Western RR. (10/24/98)
  
  
• Tillorps Mekaniska: Download a complete NMRA compatible system, and other model railroad electronics projects. (2/15/98)
  
  
• TraiN'ternet - American Model Railroading In France: American model railroading in France. Prototypes, layouts, DCC, model photography, hints & tips and much more. (French/English) (8/31/00)
  
  
• TTTrains World of DCC: Providing you with a wealth of information on products that follow the National Model Railroad Association's Digital Command Control standards and Recommended Practices. (2/15/98)
  
  

This section maintained by martinoakes@charter.net updated: February 06, 2008