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Layout #2, Video # 41, Kato Surfliner Cars and Broadway T-1 Steam Locomotive, featuring Ed Einhorn

This is our 111th video documenting our exploration of the model railroading hobby. It is the 41st video for our second (N Scale) layout. In this video, we introduce the Broadway Limited Imports model of the Reading T-1 steam locomotive in a fantasy Independence Day paint scheme, along with some additional passenger cars for the Kato Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train. I also get to introduce an old friend, Ed Einhorn, to modern DCC model railroading. Ed is a very good friend that I went to school with from 1st through 12th grades. After high school, we sort of lost touch, but thanks to modern social media we found each other and got back together. He has been a big fan of this channel and always asks clarification on why I did things a certain way or what I meant when I said something he did not understand. Fortunately for me, he decided to come in and visit me in San Antonio and see the trains in person. He got his first lesson in hos to control the trains using DCC as he tested the new locomotive and passenger cars shown in this video. I was at Dibble's Hobbies getting ready for the visit and they had some new things I was interested in. I picked up the expansion set of Kato Pacific Surfliner cars, which truly was meant for people who bought the smaller 4 cars set, not the full 8 car set I had. But I like longer trains and they fit in with no duplicate car numbers (a rule Chris made that I agreed with), so I picked them up. I also picked up some light kits to install in them, though that did not make it for this video. They also had one of the Broadway Limited Imports Reading T-1 locomotives that i had not seen before. It was their fantasy paint scheme for Independence Day, and I really thought it looked good in all blue with the red and white markings. I saw in the video that it has a smoke unit installed and I really liked that. My mistake was not knowing it was there when I already had two of these models, one in Chessie and one in RBMN livery. They had the smoke units too and I just forgot it was there. Sorry about that, BLI. After we got the trains unboxed and set up, we gave Ed some of the basic instructions and had him control the demonstration runs. Ed was used to the powerpacks used in the 60's for an HO layout, so the twin throttle and number pad that we use for DCC control baffled him for a little bit, but he quickly got it down. We got to show him how DCC can control two trains from one power supply, but it was almost cheating because we used two separate throttles first, then the two sides on the one dual throttle. Next time he comes to visit, we will give him even more lessons and show him how we can control several trains at once by switching which train the throttle is commanding and how the train will just continue with its setting when you switch to another one. Overall, it was a good visit with an old friend and we all enjoyed it. I look forward to his next visit.