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Furniture Railroads is about designing and building small model railroads that can be displayed in living space, or taken to exhibitions. It’s about making the presentation as good as the modelling work. It’s about bringing the hobby upstairs, and out to the public.

I talk a lot about woodworking here, but I engage in all aspects of the hobby of model railroading. Most of my work is in N scale these days, but I still have the American Flyer S scale I grew up with, and I work in other scales as well.

I’ve been a professional woodworker since 1996. I’ve been a model railroader all my life.

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  1. Really a great website. It is a big help to find such to-the-point descriptions by someone who actually knows what they are doing. For not having ‘formal’ electronics training, you have a pretty sophisticated inventory. And the information on woodworking is *very* valuable to us electronicists who build ‘potato chip’ plywood layouts. Many thanks.

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  2. Thank You for the info on installing DigiTrax Decoder into the KATO E7A. I followed your procedure and all works great with the exception of the lights. They do not operate on both KATO set of E7As. I use JMRI Decoder Pro to program but I cannot determine if there is a specific setting in lighting that I need to do. Any Ideas?

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    1. It’s hard to say what the problem is without more info. It could be a matter of setting CVs, but it’s also possible that the LED got reversed during re-installation.

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      1. I did not think about that and I’ll bet that is what the problem is. I have tested other LEDs that I have installed and learned that the polarity is critical, but I paid no attention when I re-installed the leds into the units. I let you know what i find. Thank You.

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