AristoCraft Wide Radius Turnout Notes, with fixes for troublesome turnouts, and notes on adapting LGB switch motors to AC turnouts; PDF format, 12 pages, 1.5mb, sized for full-size printing on US Letter or A4 printers.
Ikea Train Storage System, shows how to easily construct a large-capacity garden gauge model train storage system, using components from Ikea and economical aluminum track; PDF format, 12 pages, 1.4mb, sized for full-size printing on US Letter or A4 printers.
Eggliner Collision Avoidance System, shows how to install an infrared detection system to vary the speed of a locomotive and avoid a collision with another train on the same track; PDF format, 11 pages, 1.3mb, sized for full-size printing on US Letter or A4 printers; includes an embedded Quicktime video of the modified train in action, on page 11 (requires Adobe Reader 6 or later).
A Very Large Train Table describes the construction of my outdoor garden scale layout, which is a table with 4 concentric ovals of stainless steel track, measuring 29.5' by 18.5'; PDF format, 14 pages, 3.5mb with 18 illustrations, sized for full-size printing on US Letter or A4 printers.