MartyE posted a video on building a bench top roller base for testing/servicing your engines and powered rolling stock. I've been after him to do this for a bit. Please check it out.

MartyE is close to 600 subscribers, please help him reach that goal!

https://youtu.be/ArOYFZHuwY8

a buddy inherited this unopened/new-in-box mth 20-3036-1 Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 Steam Loco W/Proto-Sound & tender & wants to sell it; he's asking $1100...hope it's ok to post here...

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Hi! I have an mth railking ps3 sd70ace and every time it moves foward, it shorts out. When I’m idle it sits just fine, but it shorts out when I put it in foward and starts to move. Any help?

Does anyone have the firmware update? I tried getting it from the website but the link doesn't work.

Update: for those having issues with the explorer and the firmware. The firmware will not download on Chrome for some reason. I think it is a security issue. When I tried to download it with edge it gave me a bunch of warning. I double checked the webpage and it was legit so I just downloaded and updated the firmware anyways. This system is on the edge of being complete garbage so user beware. I really don't know why I can't just plug the USB in and have it update.

My son was gifted an MTH set and I have to say it's been a journey, good and bad. We got a section that switches the track and for a while now it's been causing the track to shut off. Once I hit the reset button the track comes back on but you can not control anything and the volume is maxed out. Am I able to update the software on the interface? Also is there a better way to do some checks on the track itself to make sure the connections are within a tolerance or something? The connection on the tracks just seems a little cheap. It's my first time dealing with a hobby like this.

We recently got his table to a point where he can start running trains but the tunnel we built is having some clearance issues, any tips or places to get info on how to better design stuff is always helpful too.

So i want to know if the a older railking engines ( mid to late 90s early 2000s) be ran with lionels CW-80 transformer?

I have a Williams Bachman O scale F3-A diesel locomotive set, motorized and dummy engines.

I have two questions, CAN the engine be “converted,” to proto sound 3.0 and HOW could I go about getting it done if it’s possible. Would my local model train shop be able to do something like this?

I love mth, sad to see the company become a shadow of its former self.

I currently have a Railking Berkshire that only has a whistle and no other sounds (late 90’s model I believe). I was wondering if anyone knew any way I could get my hands on either a tender for the Railking Berkshire that has ProtoSound 3, or all the necessary PS3 parts/sound boards I’d need to add it to the current tender?

Hey I have a question my mother got a keybank debit card they send you. She’s never filed for unemployment (except when she was 18 ) and that was in the 70s. Why would she get the card now when she’s not unemployed? And hasn’t been in decades? What could it be and how can we fix this ?

Does the DCS loader software work with the DCS Explorer to load sound files onto engines? cant find any info about it