Hello From a New Member to the OGR Forum

Welcome to the forum. Really like the pictures of your layout.

Please post often.

Yes welcome, very nice winter theme layout you have there

Great layout, welcome aboard!

Bill, Ray, and Jonathan,

Thank you all for the kind welcomes! Bill, I plan to start what will hopfully be a very fun and engaging thread in the near future.

Bryce 

Bryce- welcome to the Forum.  That is a great looking layout. Looking forward to what's next. 

I'm the son of an electrical engineer and a licensed master electrician. I work at a private University on Long Island, hope you are able to continue your studies and are finding "distance learning" enjoyable.

Bob

Looks good Bryce and welcome to the group!

Charlie

Bryce, the OGR Forum is the fun place to be these days. 

Glad that you came out of the shadows Bryce, thanks for sharing

Bryce, welcome to the OGR forum.

That's a real nice setup you got going with a nice feel to it.

Bryce

Your photo that included the lighted Country Church building with "stained glass" windows nudged my mind toward finishing a temporarily postponed project on my home layout; i.e., cutting and installing acetate "stained glass" panels for the now-plain windows of my MTH Country Church. I'm toying with the idea of placing a mini-CD player inside the church; with the touch of a remote button it would play recorded pipe organ music of popular hymns -- "Rock of Ages," "A Mighty Fortress," and so on.

Your post to this forum will have ripple effects -- all to the good!
Mike Mottler   LCCA 12394

Hello and welcome, Bryce. That's a cool layout!

Welcome to the forum Bryce. Very nice layout. Paul 2

Where in the world have you been Bryce. Great layout. Look forward to more posts. 

Bryce,

Very nice layout!

Welcome aboard, Bryce!

Bryce happy you decided to no longer be stranger welcome and enjoy the great folks here on this great forum, By the way beautiful layout well done.

Welcome to the forum, Bryce! I promise you'll like it here!

Welcome Bryce.  A lot of great information here and very helpful people.

Welcome Bryce!!!

That's hi-rail alright "rookie"    (like calling a fat man "Tiny" eh?  

 Thanks for the pictures. It seems you could post vignettes all day and solve a few electric issues in between those if you choose to

Welcome Bryce,

Nice layout!  Know that you find quite a few EE's around here.  And even a professor or two  .

Enjoy!

Lou N

Welcome aboard Bryce.

All, 

Thank you for the very warm welcome! I hope to get some more photos and videos up soon. 

Bob,

Thank you! This remote learning is interesting to say the least. My lecture classes are very easy to make the switch to online learning. My laboratory sessions? Not so much...  But the show must go on! 

Mike,

Great minds think alike! I actually have a lot planned for that MTH church. Stained glass windows, fully detailed interior, and a sound system to boot! I do not know if you have heard of the EZ Sound Box/EZ Sound Modules, but they are a recordable devices with playback features. I ordered a few and will let you know how they work when they come in (delivery is expected April 22ish). I plan on using them around the layout as fun/easy interactions with guests. I plan to have visitors hear everything from my church to Gerry Anderson's UFO flying saucer sounds (I may have some extraterrestrials on the layout ).

Adriatic,

I'm more than happy to help anyone with any possible electrical issues, but you don't want me posting vignettes all day long. I think everyone would be bored stiff!

Bryce

A warm welcome to you - the site will become your second home - with many amenities to boot -  you will find yourself here more than a few times per week.  Question - what took you so long fo you to join us here?

Thanks Surfliner! That is a good question, I honestly don't know what took me so long.

I lurked for a few years too. So did many others.

I wanted to confirm things I thought I knew from childhood mostly, tweaking smoke output too (GRJ, DaleH, DaleM threads) and maybe contribute too as thanks for what I had learned or recalled while lurking. (great gramps and gramps collected big and ran big since prewar; I just liked playing with mine electronics was work for me too, so I'm post war lazy with tech when I can be )

Welcome to the forum!  I'm glad you decided to join in the fun.  You have a very nice layout.  Thanks for sharing.

-Greg

Nice layout. Welcome!

Welcome Bryce. I studied your layout photos so long, I had to put a sweater on.

Nice layout!  Welcome aboard!

Mitch

Adriatic, 

That sounds exactly like what I plan on doing. 

Greg, Dale & Mitch,

Thank you for the welcome and comments on the layout! 

Dave,

Some hot cocoa should warm you up! Haha

All, 

I have attached a video of some action on the layout. My Premier K4 leads some K-line cars around the layout. I am uploading this directly from my cell phone so let’s hope I did this correctly haha. 

Bryce

Bryce,

Welcome. Before I joined here in 2000, I was interested in trains and my young boys were too. However, none of my friends or wife cared at all about trains. This forum plugged my into a group of people that were as fired up as me. I made friends. I joined TCA and have attended the York meet twice a year since, started my own local group of guys with layouts we host each other monthly, and joined two modular clubs. None of that would have happened without this forum.

Look forward to talking with you more.

What part of the country are you in?

Welcome 

Welcome aboard. Great layout there - is that MTH catenary you're using?

Bryce,

Welcome future electrical engineer from a retired mechanical engineer, congradualtions on your career choice you will find it challenging at times but rewarding, I did it over 40 years. Now back to the Forum topic, welcome to the Forum and to the model railroading hobby.   

Craig,

That is awesome! Hopefully I can also create a local group after the social distancing/quarantine is over. I am from northern NJ. 

Firewood,

Actually no it is not! This catenary is a product from "The Train Station" in Mountain Lakes, NJ. They have double track and single track systems. I personally prefer the look of it over MTH version.

John & Chris,

Thank you for the welcomes! 

Bryce

Hi Bryce,

Glad you could join our family. As you can see, you are very welcome to be part of us.

Nice layout.

Ed Boyle

Bryce,

Good luck with the remote learning.  I was informed yesterday that the summer semester will also be delivered remotely.  You're right, lecture is do-able; labs not so much.  Out class 10,000 clean room is locked and even if we do get access all of our gloves and masks have been donated to local hospitals. 

Lou N 

Ed,

Thank you! I'm ecstatic to be part of the group!

Lou,

My school's engineering department has the professors either doing one of two things:

- They record themselves doing the lab and we use their data

- The students will do everything via simulation software

It is not ideal, but we can still learn information and generate reports.

Bryce

Welcome Bryce. Your layout is very nice. Like the winter season!

Mark

Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

 

Lou,

My school's engineering department has the professors either doing one of two things:

- They record themselves doing the lab and we use their data

- The students will do everything via simulation software

It is not ideal, but we can still learn information and generate reports.

 

Bryce

Our program is work based learning.  The degrees are in MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems).  The labs are all hands on (e.g. how to thread a gold wire bonder or soldering 0402 components under a microscope).  

Anyway, know that there are a number of engineers and educators here on the forum, including those who have small manufacturing businesses that supply us with needed components.  As a potential EE you should be following a fellow known as GUNRUNNERJOHN.  And there are manufacturers like Scott Mann from Sunset Third Rail and Steve Horvath from Atlas.

The resources here are vast.

Lou N

Bryce, welcome to the Jungle.

Chris S.

Welcome aboard Bryce. You have a great looking Layout and good luck with your studies.

Welcome, Bryce.  You joined a great group of folks here with a very wide range of toy and model train interests and knowledge.  Even better, they are very willing to share ideas and answer your questions...especially when you’re looking for help with something.

Bryce,

You may consider joining TCA now, then you check out the York meet in October and meet a bunch of us.

Welcome from a fellow O scaler, EE, and SUNY grad (Maritime College, class of 1992).

Love the CNJ water tower, and the bridge. 

Looks like a New York Central motif? 

As you progress through your EE training, you'll find that there are plenty of neat tricks you can use on the layout.

Do you have plans for a working signal system? That would be a great place to "study" LED's, rectifiers, and transistor logic.

Welcome, Bryce.

I've been on the forum since its earliest days (we used to be assigned member numbers when it was a small group, and I'm member no. 76). Since all I've got is a 4x8 board, I don't post much but I lurk as often as I can and I've learned a lot from this varied and talented group of train folks here. Any question you ask will probably get answered here.

BTW, we share SUNY connections. My daughter got her undergrad degree from Oneonta, my wife and I graduated from Buffalo State, and I got my first master's at Stony Brook. The state schools are still an amazing bargain in higher education in New York.

Be well and stay safe in these trying times.

Chris

Mark, Chris S , gg1man, Joe,

Thank you! 

Lou,

Sounds like a fun lab! I will certainly follow them as I plan to learn as much as I can! 

Craig,

Sounds like a great idea! I've never been to York so that would be a fun experience.

Trainman2,

Thank you! I am a huge fan on the NYCRR and all her subsidiaries. I only have a handful of engines that are not related to the NYCRR. I have had a plan for a signal system since last summer but there has been no time between school and work. As you know, NJ is under quarantine/curfew due to COVID so I am back home.  Now I might have time to finally have time to do this as well as ~12 projects that are on the backburner. 

Chris,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I would love to see your layout! Every time I see a new layout, I get inspiration. Even though I am from NJ, I believe that SUNY schools are top notch for education, cost, and ROI. Hope you and your family stay safe and healthy.

Bryce

Oscale_Trains_Lover_ posted:

Mark, Chris S , gg1man, Joe,

Thank you! 

Chris,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I would love to see your layout! Every time I see a new layout, I get inspiration. Even though I am from NJ, I believe that SUNY schools are top notch for education, cost, and ROI. Hope you and your family stay safe and healthy.

Bryce

Bryce, same to you, we are all safe in Las Vegas.  Here is my outdoor layout, older video, outer loop now complete.  My indoor layout is still under construction (you never really finish a layout).  Hopefully video copies into the post.

Chris S.