by DSMRadmin
February 27, 2012 in General
The Colorado Midland Railroad is now closed to the public for the duration of the Union Station Hotel renovation.
We want to thank all of you that have attended our monthly open houses.
The Colorado Midland Railroad’s open houses will resume after the Spring of 2014
Please stop by our website for updates on the status of the DUS renovation and our layout.
We look forward to seeing you in 2014!
by DSMRadmin
by DSMRadmin
March 1, 2011 in General
Saturday February 12th, Skip Waugh and I powered up the Grays/No Name DCC power district on the narrow gauge for its initial start up and programmed all the stationary switch machine decoders for Grays. Once we finished with the stationary decoder programming we started to test the track with RGS 455 with a short string of cars in tow. As usual we had a few missing track drop leads which is common when doing a conversion like we are doing and are fixing them as we find them.
What causes missing drops when converting from DC to DCC? Mostly it is you missed noticing a rail gap that was part of a DC block, our rail gaps are filled with styrene and once the rail is weathered sometimes you miss one or two.
So we will continue to test for the next few weeks looking for trouble spots such as proper switch throw, no engine stalls, and track infrastructure before we connect the command bus to the Junction DCC power district so we can run between the 2 districts.
Why independently test each DCC power district prior to connecting them? It’s a basic troubleshooting statement which is divide and conquer. We will know any issue we see is related to the DCC power district we are testing in and not being caused by something going on in another DCC power district. Also when you connect the command bus from on district to another if you have a issue you also know it is just related to the command bus cable connection.
I will cover our locomotive testing practices for a DCC power district in my next update.
Eric Bacchi Narrow Gauge Operations Team
by DSMRadmin
by DSMRadmin
by DSMRadmin
November 9, 2010 in General
Welcome to the Denver Society of Model Railroaders web site. Since our Club’s first debut online on October 18th, 2004 we’ve always tried to make our web experience almost as enjoyable as a visit to our location. We realize that not everyone is able to visit us in person therefore our photo and video galleries help bring some of the model railroading excitement into your home.
With our latest site the plan is to expand upon the offerings of our first site while adding additional features. We’ll be outlining many of the new web site features here in the near future as we continue with our build. For now, we encourage you to register for a user ID and password as they will be your ticket to some of the member only areas of the site in the future.
We thank you for visiting us and hope you’ll visit us often as we continue to expand our online presence via this new web site.
The Denver Society of Model Railroaders is not affiliated with the Platte Valley and Western Model Railroad. If you need information regarding the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad, please visit their website: http://www.pvwrr.org/
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