Manufacturers & Suppliers

Aztec Manufacturing Co.
2701 Conestoga Drive, #113
Carson City, NV 89706

Phone: (775) 883-3327
Fax: (775) 883-3357

Web-site: http://www.aztectrains.com
E-mail: aztecmfg@usa.net

Manufacturer of track cleaning cars from Z to G scales and Track Master DCC ready frames.

Charleston Digital Trains
1352 White House Boulevard
Charleston, SC 29412

Phone: 843-795-3082 or 843-209-0262

Web-site: http://www.charlestondigitaltrains.com
E-mail: sales@charlestondigitaltrains.com

Authorized Digital, NCE, SoundTraxx and RR-Cirkits dealer. Items stocked include Tower Master, Tortoise, CMX, Throttle Pockets, RRampMeter, LocoNuffer, Power Supplies, The Hare

Digitrax, Inc.
P.O. Box 1424
Norcross, GA 30091-1424

Street address: 450 Cemetery Street #206
Norcross, GA 30071

Phone: (770) 441-7992
Fax: (770) 441-0759

Web-site: http://www.digitrax.com
E-mail: sales@digitrax.com

Designer and manufacturer of complete portfolio of DCC systems (Genesis, Empire Builder, Chief) and components (Command Stations, Power Boosters, Throttles, Decoders, Detectors).

DigiToys Systems
1645 Cheshire Court
Lawrenceville, GA 30043

Phone/Fax: (770) 277-0454

Web-site: http://www.digitoys-systems.com

Designer of WinLok DCC computer control software and PR1 decoder programming software.

Litchfield Station
P.O. Box 17133
Munds Park, AZ 86017-7133

Phone: (623) 640-4060

Web-site: http://www.litchfieldstation.com
E-mail: BPetrarca@SpamCop.net

Handles all brands of DCC equipment. Also does decoder installation.

Logic Rail Technologies
21175 Tomball Parkway
Suite 287
Houston, TX 77070

Phone/Fax: (281) 251-5813

Web-site: http://www.logicrailtech.com
E-mail: info@logicrailtech.com

Manufacturer of LocoNet Fast Clock (LNFC) and other DCC accessories.

Southern Digital Railroad Hobbies
5295 Highway 78, Suite D-322
Stone Mountain, GA 30087

Phone: (770) 929-1888
Fax: (770) 918-1780

Web-site: http://www.sodigi.com
Email: sodigi@atl.mindspring.com

Digitrax and SoundTraxx dealer. Manufactures DigiFrames retrfofit frames for HO and N scale locomotives. Other DCC accessories. Decoder installation service. Peco track.

Throttle Up! Corp. — SoundTraxx
210 Rockpoint Drive
Durango, CO 81301

Phone: (970) 259-0690
Fax: (970) 259-0691

Web-site: www.soundtraxx.com
E-mail: sales@soundtraxx.com

Designer/manufacturer of DCC sound decoders for steam and diesel locomotives, along with accessories such as miniature speakers.

Tony's Train Exchange
57 River Road
Box 1023
Essex Junction, VT 05452

Orders: (800) 978-3472
Fax: (802) 878-5550

Web-site: http://www.tonystrains.com
Email: info@tonystrains.com

Dealer for all DCC manufacturers. Manufactures and ditributes several DCC accessories including transformers, power supplies, circuit breakers. Good source of technical information. Decoder installation service. Other model RR products.

Other Sources of Information

Allan Gartner's "Wiring for DCC"

Web-site: www.WiringForDCC.com

This is one of the most useful web-sites on the Internet for DCC. If you have questions about wiring your layout for DCC — track switches, throttle network, booster network, track, commons — this is the place to go. Also information on decoder installation, sound and block detection.

Allan Gartner is an electrical and computer enigneer with experience in computers, radio, industrial wiring, troubleshooting, and the electrical knowledge and wiring problems of model railroaders. This is Allan's way of giving something back to the hobby.

Don Crano's Model Railroading with DCC

Web-site: www.mrwithdcc.com
E-mail: dcrano@neo.rr.com

This web-site has several projects (battery saver, Tortoise mods, detectors, decoder installations) and lots of hints and tips. Don also has an excellent page on "What's New in the World of DCC!", which he keeps up-to-date.

Don is a major contributor to the various Internet mailing lists related to DCC, especically the Digitrax and NMRA DCC-SIG lists.

Dick Bronson's Page

Web-site: www.rr-cirkits.com
E-mail: dick_bronson@sil.org

Dick has important information on Safety Grounding for DCC (i.e. how to protect yourself and your DCC equipment). He also has do-it-yourself articles on a Block Occupancy Detector and Remote Controlled Couplers. Dick is the manufacturer of the LocoBuffer interface between a computer and the Digitrax LocoNet.

Rutger Friberg's Model Railroad Electronics

Web-site: www.hobby.se/Rutger/Rutger.html
E-mail: rutger.friberg@hobby.se

Rutger is a prodigious designer and model railroad author. His "Model Railroad Electronics" books now number 6 volumes. He is also co-author with Stan Ames and Ed Loizeaux of "Digital Command Control", the recently published first book devoted to DCC (see below).

Stan Ames, Rutger Friberg & Ed Loizeaux, Digital Command Control, The Comprehensive Guide to DCC, Published by Allt om Hobby AB, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998, ISBN 91-85496-49-9. Available from amazon.com

Stefano Curtarolo's AuroTrains

Web-site: www.aurotrains.com
E-mail: aurotrains@iname.com

Stefano's web-site contains several interesting items on DCC plus many links to DCC-related sites. His total site contains many links to web-sites with photographs of prototype and model railroads, as well as other links to railroad-related web-sites.

Stefano is also moderator of the N Scale with DCC (ndcc) mailing list.

DCCWiki

Web-site: wiki.dccforall.com

DCCWiki is an encyclopedia (DCCWikipedia) for DCC written collaboratively by many of its readers, meaning articles can be added or changed by nearly anyone. Lots of people are constantly improving DCCWiki, all of which are recorded.

Almost all visitors may create new articles or edit DCCWikipedia's articles and have their changes instantly displayed. DCCWikipedia is built on the belief that collaboration among users will improve articles over time, in much the same way that Open source software develops. Further, this real-time, collaborative model allows rapid updating of existing topics and introduction of new topics. Its authors need not have any expertise or formal qualifications in the subjects which they edit, and users are warned that their contributions may be "edited mercilessly and redistributed at will" by anyone who so wishes. Its articles are not controlled by any particular user or editorial group, and decision-making on the content and editorial policies of DCCWikipedia is instead done by consensus and occasionally vote.

Editing is very easy:

1. Click "edit" this page at the top of the page.

2. Type a message.

3. Click "Submit" at the bottom of the page to save your writing... or "Preview" to test your changes.