Product News, Announcements and How-To Videos

Hello everyone and welcome new subscribers!

Even if you are not a G Scaler, this is a fun product to see.  BIG!  

We also have two new products for all other scales.  The first is a DCC Relay Controller.  This was on our product list but we bumped it up due to a customer request and it was something we wanted for our layout.

The second new product is called SMART Switch.   A lot of modelers have the old slide and push switches and although we made a coil detector for them, we thought we could do even better.  The SMART Switch allows you to chose almost any kind of switch to control your turnouts.  You don't need those expensive center spring toggles.  You can have fixed toggles or push buttons.  You can choose one push button that will alternate between two positions or two pushbuttons.  

You can use the SMART Switch with either coil or slow motor type machines. It has a signal OUT so you can connect it to our Signal or Dwarf controllers or a CTC panel indicator.  Lastly, you can use our Precision Detectors to activate turnouts via the SMART Switch.

A few months ago our family made the decision to move my 95 year old mother-in-law from Philadelphia to Orlando - better weather and closer to our growing family of "small ones".  We are blessed that she is in great shape and still sharp as a tack.  Why am I telling you this?

In our search for a new independent residence we toured many.  As we had made our decision and were walking along the first floor corridor I looked through the window of a door to see - a huge Lionel Train layout!!   Last Friday I met with the club and we agreed to team up to bring all the dormant animations to life.  Lionel made some amazing products and were incredibly inventive on how they made things move - without complex microprocessors, etc.

The plan is to remove all the under track pressure switches (they are using snap track which isn't friendly toward those) and replace them with Precision Sensors and relays.  We'll also use some of our building lights systems.  Some of the items need some renovation work and we'll show you those as we progress.

The whole point here is that we (me) now have a O Scale/ Lionel lab to deploy and show our products - and the club gets to bring their layout to life!