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0001516 Cable Computer Interface and tried the Prodigy DCC Computer interface. The MRC website currently offers the required drivers only for Windows 98, Windows XP and Win- dows Vista. Plugging the cable inter- face or the Nos. 0001510 or 0001515 Wireless Computer Interface into a USB port on your computer initiates the installation of the required drivers. Be patient and let the installation process repeat itself, as the drivers must be installed in two steps. Next, run the executable file, and the inter- face opens, making your PC into a very smart control and programming cab. The MRC Computer Interface is very useful even if you don’t have a comput- er you can use for walk-around control, as it allows the user to make a roster of locomotives for easy access when oper- ating, for easy programming of multi- ple CV’s, for loading CV settings shared from other sources, and for sim- ple and intuitive set-up of consists, routes and accessory functions. Hope- fully MRC will soon make available drivers for Apple and Windows 8 to al- low using the interface on touch screen tablets.
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DL&W relay cabinets: N scale Mfd., by NZT Products, 25 Rose Ct., NJ 08753;
Toms River,
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NZT Products is one of those compa- nies that always seems to have some- thing new coming out. Since the focus of NZT Products is primarily trackside items, this is great news for N scale modelers. Model railroad manufactur- ers, in general, seem to be focusing on the ready-to-run market and are shy- ing away from the kitbashers and scratchbuilders. NZT Products keeps putting outstanding products on the market geared specifically for those of us who want to build, detail and add scenery. The latest addition this ever-
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increasing line of details is their DL&W relay cabinet. The Lackawanna Railroad stretched 400 miles from Hoboken, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, and employed a fairly modern signal system for the time, which relied on wooden relay cab- inets to house the electronics. These cabinets were almost always located near grade crossings and signals. While most cabinets consisted of a single box with two concrete posts on each end, some locations had double and even triple cabinets. The cabinets lasted through the Erie Lackawanna, Conrail and even into the NJ Transit days over on the east end of the system. Some still stand although mother nature is re- claiming the wooden parts. Today, many are reduced to simply two concrete posts sticking out of the ground.
NZT Products used photos and measurements from an existing cabi- net to create laser-etched acrylic parts that were perfect replicas of the real thing. These parts were assembled into a master and then rubber molds were made from the master. NZT Products has proven that they have the know- how when it comes to producing high quality resin castings and these relay cabinets demonstrate that. The castings have a small block of resin at the base of the concrete posts and a thin membrane between the posts. This is all trimmed away easily by the modeler. What is left is a perfect relay cabinet with concrete posts. The cabinets have three doors on one side and these are all modeled perfectly. The angled hinges are also present. The wood grain of the cabinet is also nicely done, and the roof of the box is metal and has drip rails on each end. Those details are captured perfectly. It is amazing to see so much attention to detail in a resin model of something as mundane as a relay cabinet. Painting the resin is simple. I like to
wash the parts in warm soapy water in order to remove any chemical residue left over from the casting process. Once washed and trimmed, I painted the
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