From Urban Streets to Country Parks

Fred Miller’s HO Trolley Models

Where historical accuracy meets artistic
craftsmanship in HO scale.

About Us

From Model Rails to Museum Displays

This site was developed to share photos and information about my HO Traction modeling as represented in four Town & Country Traction Company modules of Gotham City as well as other traction dioramas, layouts and modeling projects. (See LAYOUT DETAILS]

Over a dozen Project Articles have been included for download.  Topics range from special effect lighting circuits to various DCC related projects.  A full description, project code and sample sounds are available for several traction sounds projects developed for the Digitrax sound decoders.

From Model Rails to Museum Displays

This site was developed to share photos and information about my HO Traction modeling as represented in four Town & Country Traction Company modules of Gotham City as well as other traction dioramas, layouts and modeling projects. (See LAYOUT DETAILS]

Over a dozen Project Articles have been included for download.  Topics range from special effect lighting circuits to various DCC related projects.  A full description, project code and sample sounds are available for several traction sounds projects developed for the Digitrax sound decoders.

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Biography of Fred Miller

From Model Rails to Museum Displays

Fred Miller is the man behind Challenge Products and the several personal computer railroad oriented game simulations. Until Fred’s  retirement from the corporate world, he focused his daytime energies on directing large IBM computer data centers, most recently for Citibank.  His 35 years of participation in the world of large scale business computers started after graduating from Princeton University in 1958 with an Electrical Engineering degree.  Early career activity, however, found Fred as a programmer with a large insurance company, moving on into various data processing management positions in the financial industry centered in the New York and New Jersey area.

From Model Rails to Museum Displays

Generic Traction Sounds

This article describes the use of the Digitrax DCC SFX sound decoders to provide custom sounds...

Peter Witt Streetcar Sounds

This article describes a new Digitrax DCC SFX Sound Project support of sounds for the Bachmann HO Peter...

Birney Streetcar Sounds

DCC SFX Sound Project for the Birney Streetcar as described in my Sounds for a Birney Streetcar article...

A combination 

DCC SFX Sound Project PCCSET.SPJ is available in one project. The user can select which sound set with a CV...

Air PCC Streetcar Sounds

This DCC SFX Sound Project PCC-I.SPJ supports sounds for an Air PCC Streetcar such as the Con-Cor HO PCC..

All-Electric PCC Streetcar Sounds

This Digitrax DCC SFX Sound Project is available in two versions, both supporting sounds...

SFX Sound Decoder to Amplifier...

his article describes a circuit to enable playing Digitrax SFX Sound Decoders through an external amplifier...

SFX Sound Decoder CAM Debouce Circuit

The CAM input to a Digitrax SFX Sound Decoders can be more useful...

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Trolley Ville

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NMRA

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(MER) of the NMRA

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Model Railroads

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East Penn Traction Club

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Fred & Barbara Creations

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