Sierra sound board batteries

The Athearn HO Turbine Locomotive

• No need to plug in to select or drop a loco
• Full programming in all modes wirelessly
• Group Name functions, allowing different layouts to function side by side, such as at train shows
• Reduced interference by moving from the 900 MHz band to the 2.4 GHz band
• Increased range - about 300 feet from the transceiver to the throttle
• Support for dozens of throttles on one UR-92 transceiver.
  

• DT402
• UR92
• Super Chief
• Super Empire Builder

We have almost enough 828040 to fill back orders and enough of the rest to fill back orders and have a few in stock! We are shipping according to our normal "first paid, first shipped" policy.

If you've asked Santa Claus for one, you MIGHT get it. If not, there are a few left for immediate shipment. We are NOT keeping inventory status up to date on the web site. eMail Nancy@LitchfieldStation.com or call for EXACT status.

CLICK HERE to order!

Happy Holidays to your and yours from the entire Litchfield Station team.

Bruce  

You can follow the developments just CLICK HERE!

We will use Saturday clinics to accomplish much of the work. If you are in the Phoenix area and want to learn DCC hands-on with personal coaching, check out our clinic schedule - CLICK HERE!

Our first clinic covers basic layout wiring - blocks, SurroundTraxx districts, buses, throttle networks, etc. It is coming soon - December 6. RESERVE NOW!

When the layout is done, we will be able to demonstrate the various DCC systems in a realistic environment to help you decide what system is right for you!  

• V16 ALCO 251
• GE FDL-16
• Fairbanks-Morse

• Tradittional TSU-1000
• Atlas Light board style TSU-AT1000

The TSU-AT1000 includes a 1.5 volt regulator, making installations in Athearn Genesis and similar locos a breeze!

Now here is the GREAT news. Our price at Litchfield Station is the minimum advertised price allowed by SoundTraxx,  just $79.96 for the TSU-AT1000!

Web Site Challenges:
Some users have been noticing some quirks in the shopping cart recently:

• Not being able to log in
• Shopping cart being empty when they get in, etc.

• $4 for First Class Mail
• $6 for Priority Mail

• Full support for all 29 NMRA functions

• Improved programming support - no need for external PTB

• Black Box Programmer $44.29, save an extra $3.60
• LH100 Throttle $155.89, save an extra $36
• LH90 Throttle $77.89, save an extra $18
• LZV100 System Box $143.89, save an extra $36
• Set 100 $283.89, save an extra $36
• Set 100-10 $387.89, save an extra $72

Diesel Tsunami
1 Amp version - The EMD first generation (678-827101) is shipping. We currently have a (VERY) few in stock with more on the way. It looks as if the additional released sounds will roll out in numerical order from now on at the rate of one or two a week:

3/4 Amp version - long awaited for N-Scale and switchers - It was announced on SoundTraxx web site today in three versions:

QSI Revolution
QSI Revolution A
This decoder got lots of early orders - enough that we and our supplier have run out of product. More are on the way. There have been some questions about lighting operations with this decoder. I'll be putting together my thoughts on this soon.
QSI Revolution U
These will be coming soon, but we don't have any release data. When we do, they will be on the web site and a newsletter will be sent.

SurroundTraxx
We are expecting our first production units soon. This exciting product continues to generate a lot of interest amongst those in the small scales or those module groups who exhibit at noisy shows.  

There was a bit of number confusion. They have been corrected on our web site now. CLICK HERE to order! Not all voices listed on our web site are available yet. CLICK HERE to check out the QSI Solutions web site! Those with an red number in the SOUND NUMBER column are available. Here you can also see future plans.  

You can view the install, just CLICK HERE!

We also have hand-crafted sound files for the AeroTrain and the Zephyr available, just CLICK HERE!

In order to serve our customers better, we are offering a cooperative sound installation service. When a new loco is coming out, contact us! We will let you know if we can get one of them for you. If you are the first to ask for a specific model and we can acquire it for you, we will sell it to you at the kind of price you have come to expect from Litchfield Station and install the sound for the cost of parts only! We all win!

Thanks for your continued loyal support,
Bruce  

The recent interest in these fine speakers is expanding into larger sizes. The first speakers were just over an inch in diameter. Now we have sizes all the way to 4 inches so that all scales from HO on up can benefit. AND, they make wonderful layout sound speakers.

CLICK HERE for HIGH BASS up to 52 mm (2.07 inches)!

CLICK HERE for HIGH PERFORMANCE from 57 mm (2.25 inches) to 99 mm (4 inches)!

NCE USB
A side note - NCE has not yet shipped the USB adapters promised earlier this year. When we get them in, you'll get yours, in the order you paid for them. Thanks for your patience.  

We are cleaning out closets and came across a bunch of Airbrush items from Badger that we are closing out. CLICK HERE to view the products.

This pricing is limited to stock on hand, so let us know when you order what you want us to do if we are sold out:

Currently LokSound decoders are in short supply, but more are expected from Europe later this month.

We still have not seen one of the units, so are not sure which speaker will fit best - more on that later.  

The JMRI guys have blessed the USB interface. I've released the drawing package to production and expect the first boards to ship in the next two to three weeks!

Jim Scorse
NCE Corporation

The price was finalized at $49.95, making the Litchfield Station price $38.96.

If you don't have one on order, and want one, CLICK HERE!

Over the next few days, we will be contacting those of you who have orders on file with us to confirm payment and shipping information.  

DCC Decoder for your classic N diesels
TCS has announced a Class N split board decoder for the "classic" Atlas diesels and similar locos ($30.89). Now, you can save the hassle and expense of sending your frame out for machining! While I still expect this to be an "advanced" install, this new decoder should help. It will have the TCS BEMF! Our part number is TCS-CN and we expect stock at Litchfield Station later this month.

Fast Clock Displays
Fast clock displays for your NCE Power House sets have joined the existing Digitrax displays in the Logic Rail Technology product line. We have both types in stock, each in two display sizes.

Blackstone HOn3 cars - release 4
If you ACT NOW, you can GUARANTEE delivery on any of the cars in the next release, due this summer.

Sound for all large scale users!
The plug-in Aristocraft (DC or DCC) sound board for DIESEL or STEAM has been available from QSI for several months. Folks have reported 20 minute installations. One customer has his loco on YOU TUBE! Now we have the Magnum board. This addition gives you the platform to plug the Aristo decoder into and connect it with screw terminals in your O or G loco!

We now stock: Walther's GOO
Faller Expert StyreneCement
 

They have joined a few other items on the DEPARTURE TRACK!

Get them while they last!  

To check them out, CLICK HERE!

We've ordered a bunch here at Litchfield Station, but, based on prior cars, place your order quickly to avoid disappointment!  

We've reduced our already low prices on Bachmann E-Z DCC sets and Set / Loco combinations. We now offer DCC set with a loco for under $100! We believe this is the lowest price you'll ever find! And the Bachmann set by itself is under $70!

Perfect for that model railroader starting out. They can have a loco to run on their own pike and can take to friends or clubs with DCC and run there, too! CLICK HERE for the set - links to the loco combos are in the RELATED PRODUCTS section - just scroll down to find them.  

With that information, we checked with NCE and found that they had the USB interface boards built and expect to have them shipping later in November. Guess we all get a Christmas present!

We don't yet have firm pricing, but will try to hold the $38.96 quoted on our web site.
CLICK HERE to order!  

AIR BRUSH
We now have in stock (or on the way) a line of products from Badger Air Brush, including selected air brushes, compressors, etc. Check out the line up by CLICKING HERE!

TRAIN THEMED CARDS
If you want just the right card for someone who loves trains or to reflect your interest in trains, they can be hard to find. We have collected several lines from Heritage Art Editions and the ever-popular Leanin' Tree.
Blank Inside Note Cards in packages of six.
Birthday Cards available individually.
Christmas Cards in boxes of ten.
Winter Holiday Cards in boxes of ten.
We want to keep all the Christmas and Winter Holiday cards in stock, but our supplier cannot guarantee availability to us of any particular design after November 1. SO ORDER SOON!
While you are there, you may want to look around in the Gift Shop for items to give to that special someone and for ideas to drop as hints to your family and friends.

BACKDROPS
We now stock the entire line of Walthers Instant Horizons backdrop sections. Piece together what you want for your pike with these inexpensive sections. Add depth and realism with Instant Buildings, too!  

Well, they have their new production machine in place and are running small batches to "feel their oats" as they come up to speed.

It now seems to Bruce that they will have the pipeline full sometime in October. Yes 2007!

We have planned for this downtime and have a lot of their line in stock. If you have something in Coming In status we hope to fill your order in the next few weeks.

If you want the total story, you can view the data from SoundTraxx, including a FINE photo of their production area - ! Just CLICK HERE - BEWARE it is a large Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file.  

Read about it on our web site!

There will be more news from Litchfield Station tomorrow, as I had several subjects to discuss before the NMRA convention next week. BUT NEWS THIS BIG couldn't wait!  

Current details of the planned events can be seen by CLICKING HERE

The first clinic will be this Saturday June 23, when Bruce will be covering "DCC is FUN!" In a one hour period he will build a DCC layout and have it operating for you to see. DCC friendly locos will be discussed.

SEATING IS LIMITED, so please reserve your seat by Friday 6/23.

Most of these clinics are free. The occasional workshop will have a charge. Click the link above for more information. ALL REQUIRE RESERVATIONS.  

For those who insist on DC operation, we will be stocking the MRC "Black Box" to provide additional control for your MRC and LokSound decoders.

To visit the new offerings, CLICK HERE. The response to these new N-Scale decoders will help determine how much of the remainder of the line we stock. Let us know!  

So, as long as the current stock lasts, or June 30, 2007, we are selling them for $10 off our normal price of US$ 79.89.

That's right, just US$ 69.89 for an LH090! CLICK HERE to order.

If you are happy as a Litchfield Station Newsletter subscriber, do NOT click on the link below!

The transition to the new server is complete and all seems okay for now. If you have any web issues, please let us know. We MAY have lost some eMail in the transition. If you don't hear from us in a timely manner, please contact us again!

Now it is time to work on the next issue: USPS is changing rates and the way they handle Priority and International mail SIGNIFICANTLY on Monday 5/14. We cannot get enough data yet to figure out what this will mean for Litchfield Station. We will continue with our current shipping policies as much as we can for the near future and see what shakes out.  

To make this less abrupt than what happened a month ago when GoDaddy killed our web site for 48 hours without notice, we have a PLAN!

Sometime in the next few days (target Monday 5/7) the store will be closed for 24 to 48 hours. The goal of this exercise is to capture all the orders up to the relocation and then reopen on the new server without loosing any orders.

We cannot guarantee that some eMail won't get lost in the transition. If you eMail us and don't get an answer in a timely manner, please try again or phone us.

By mid week we should be back up and functional in our new cyber-digs!

Normal phone hours will continue during the transition (9-5 M-F; 9-12 Sat - West Coast Time) and you can always order by phone!  

The remainder will be shipping soon from China and will probably not make their way to customers until June.

If you were an early purchaser from Litchfield Station, you MAY have already seen an eMail that we were shipping to you. If you ordered since 1/1/07, I don't believe you will be receiving your loco with this bunch. We didn't receive all the different models we ordered for our customers, so the coverage is very sporadic. Bruce ordered a Post-Wreck #455 for himself in September and we haven't gotten that. Patience is rewarded in this venture!

We are searching our records to confirm this, but we MAY have gotten two locos that we have no customer demand for. We have one each #461 in Rio Grand Southern ( B310125) and D&RG ( B310124) decoration. If you are interested in either of these locos, eMail Sales@LitchfieldStation.com Once we determine these to be excess, they will be available to the first person to request them.  

GoDaddy is our hosting provider. They decided that twice in March we exceeded our Instantaneous Bandwidth limits and PULLED THE PLUG on our site. They cannot prove that we did or did not do anything wrong.

We are back on GoDaddy, for now. We are looking for another provider and may be moving the site in the future. If we move it, there may be a period where our site is unavailable again. We hope to PLAN this outage and let folks know in advance!

We have been getting eMail during the outage, but may not have gotten all. If you don't get an answer to an eMail you sent, please resend it!

Ah, growing pains! Now, back to the FUN . . .  

They've shipped from China and are feet dry here. SoundTraxx is doing the sound boards (GENUINE TSUNAMI) and they are expected at Litchfield Station in about three or four weeks.

The long wait may soon be over for many of us!

For those of you who have been dragging your feet, now is the time to jump in! The Post-Wreck version (both weathered and not weathered) is SOLD OUT!  

I prefer to call these Programming Track Interface units, as they are not REALLY boosters. What they do is temper the load of sound equipped locos so as to not overload the programming track output of DCC sets and add some intelligence to the short detection logic of the command station. In other words, they work the agreement between the command station and the decoder to keep both happy.

They may be left in line for all decoders, although they are necessary for proper operation with many sound decoders (QSI and Tsunami and DSX with "keep alive" capacitors) when used with most command stations.

The most popular at Litchfield Station is the PTB-100 (part number 829002) from SoundTraxx. They have had some production challenges with this unit and it has been back ordered since last fall. GOOD NEWS - they all came in yesterday. The back orders have been shipped and the shelf is stocked!

An other solution is the PowerPax from DCC Specialties. This unit is normally in stock at Litchfield Station. A run on them, absent the PTB-100, has us currently in a back-order status, but I expect that to end soon.  

Now for the bad news - continuing parts challenges have led SoundTraxx to discontinue these parts. What we have in stock at Litchfield Station is all we are going to get. There are no available replacements from SoundTraxx.

If you have a project planned using one of these decoders, you best order now to avoid disapointment - stock currently ranges from 4 pieces to 1 piece!  

Premium Tsunami Sound for your SP Cab Forward loco. Order now for first deliveries!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!  

We believe that Monday night 12/18 is the latest that you can order and still get something delivered before Christmas.

NCE: The PowerCab is probably the hottest item in DCC this season. We still have a few in stock and we have more being air lifted to us. We were sold out of PowerHouse Pro 5 amp radio sets, but got more stock on Friday.

All books and videos are in stock and available for immediate shipment - we just got the DCC Guide book back in stock!

The SLEEPER gift this season is the Fantasonics Scale Magic CD scenes. The anxiously awaited Four Corners CD sets the mood (dawn, day, dusk, night) for any layout set in the southwestern part of the USA. Dream Players are in stock.

We are fully stocked in Tsunami decoders for that steam fan. Alas, Programming Track Boosters will be in short supply for the rest of the year.  

Capable of controlling 8 stall (Tortoise or similar) turnout motors, the Switch8 does NOT provide feedback of turnout position, so it is equally at home on any manufacturer's system! All for less than $47 at Litchfield Station.

CLICK HERE for mor information!  

PRICE INCREASE
We knew that it was too good to be true - a model of this caliber for this sort of price! Well, it is changing. The current prices will hold for orders placed with Litchfield Station through Christmas (12/25). After that time the prices on the K-27 locos and the box and stock cars are going up about 25%! Place you orders now on these fine locos!

WEATHERED POST-WRECK RGS 455 SOLD OUT
The limited run of pre-weathered B310131W and B310131W-S locos has been sold out. The unweathered version is still available.  

They will be shipping to folks who have had them on order and are patiently waiting for them, in the sequence that they were ordered from us. I expect it will take a few weeks for the supply situation to stabilize.

With your PowerCab and a SmartBooster, you can unplug the PowerCab and move around the layout, just like any throttle!

The SmartBooster and PowerCab combination allows control of 29 functions up to F28!

There were several itterations of price on this unit from the time it was announced until now. The final price is US$ 99.95 MSRP. Litchfield Station's price is the minimum advertised price of US$ 77.96! If you ordered one at a lower price, we are sorry for the increase, but we have no choice!  

BY POPULAR DEMAND - the complete kit to install in your loco is avaialble for $125. CLICK HERE for more information.  

Since NCE introduced the PowerCab earlier this year, one of the major complaints is that it only has one track output. This means that your "layout" becomes the programming track when you go into "Use Program Trk" mode.

Now NCE has released the Automatic Programming Track Switch, AutoSW. CLICK HERE for more information. This simple board connects between your PowerCab and your layout and the isolated programming track. When you go into Programming Track mode, the main layout is disconnected and only the programming track is active. When Programming on the Main, the entire layout is active.

THIS IS REALLY GOOD NEWS for some Digitrax owners. NCE says that the AutoSW will work with DB100 and DB150 command station / boosters as used in the Super Empire Builder, Empire Builder, Big Boy or Challenger sets!  

Surface Mount LEDs with wires.

Through a special arrangement with Richmond Controls, we now have both Sunny White and Golden White LEDs in stock with 6 inch leads soldered to them - all for only $2.89 each, with quantity discounts!

From the shopping cart, enter LED-SMD in the search box and click GO!

We know that most (all?) of you are getting two copies of this newsletter. Since no trees are sacrificed in the printing of it, fixing that bug is VERY LOW on our wish list. Getting the Installation examples converted to the new web site is higher! VBG  

NEW DECODERS!
SoundTraxx just announced a new group of decoders in the DSD-LC series: the DSD-101LC.
Following in the footsteps of the DSD-100LC, this group of decoders offers a low cost 1 amp decoder with more choices:

On Page 26, we unveil our first custom loco: a HO Bachmann 2-6-6-2 undecorated with a custom Tsunami decoder and speaker system for $235!

Step-by-step instructions allow anybody with some modeling skills to have a FINE SOUNDING LOCO, even if they have never installed a decoder before.

Shipping will begin in mid October.

Search on T82601 in our xCart or check out the ARRIVAL TRACK!  

A6X decoders built before July 2006 may have a glitch.

Avoid disapointment with your N-scale Atlas VO1000 install, use Kapton Tape to assure motor isolation.

More information and links to TCS' notes can be found by searching on either VO1000 or A6X here on the Litchfield Station shopping cart.  

Litchfield Station has added a line of color cameras!

The budget-saving silent unit starts at $79.89.

The rechargeable unit makes for a quick install - put it on a flat car and plug the receiver into your TV's video and audio inputs!

Check them out at by clicking on LAYOUT and VIDEO!  

It can be as simple as adding a "boom box" and a CD, or as elaborate as you wish.

Model Railroader featured the concept in its August 2006 issue (pp 36 - 39). All but the items for Option 1 from that article are available at Litchfield Station - the ONLY dealer in the USA who can make that claim.

Move your pike forward this week by checking out the LAYOUT | SOUND category