In need of help with new layout!!!!!!!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hey All,

<> I am semi new to model railroading and had a couple of questions for you.

I had been introduced to the O scale model railroading hobby 1 year ago and I am in pretty deep already. I have collected many old as well as new trains in both Lionel and MTH. My layout is going to be started in the next few weeks and I am a little confused. I presently have four different Transformers, the newest the Lionel CW-80, and I feel I am not getting everything that was paid for out of the newer trains. I don’t have $400 bucks to spend on the Lionel command control and I don’t know if the MTH DCS will allow the Lionel Railsounds to work. I would like to run One transformer for the acc. and one for the track layout for starters. Is there a Transformer or control, that is under $200.00, that will give me the Protosounds and the Railsounds of the newer trains and still run the older ones? These would only be run one at a Time of course to start off. The track will be small to start but I intend to expand as much as my Wife will allow. She is as into this as I am (I think)!!! Any Responce would be helpful at this point as I have read the forums for 3 weeks and have not come up with a reasonable $ option.

Thanks again and I love reading the forums and learning about this awsome new hobby.

Bill D

NJ

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Bill, welcome to the forum. There is sure to be someone reading over the next few hours who can answer your questions knowledgeably here, but we tend to get many more HO and N scalers, plus the narrow and S gauge. I am quite certain that you will get a far stronger response rate, by an order of magnitude, in the Classic Toy Trains forum next door if you would care to try posing your question there.

I wish you success with your return to trains, regardless of your scale. [:)]

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Thanks for the info. I belong to another forum for Snowmobiling and like all new hobbys and sports, there is allways someone that knows where you need to be when you take the plunge!!! Thanks again I will send my post eastward.