Dave. My Kato Colors have kept me in trust; even If I begin to hand lay my track; which may cause me to loose my mind. White with a Blue Stripe And Blue with a White Stripe. I bought 250 feet of

The area I am modeling - Northern California - has built up Levees and Berms; often above the known flood planes at 2-4 feet or higher above the surrounding ground

Hello Dave: McMaster-Carr has a good selection of wire markers. Colored electrical tape is OK. I've used the write on markers to ID turnout controls.

Could also use a label maker

Hi Dave, I urge you to do this. It will make your life much easier, especially when you are under your layout with bad lighting. The easiest way is to use wires with a different

How about a different insulation color set for the DC (+ and -) bus wires?   Just document whatever you choose to prevent the "Senior Moment" from setting you back. Dave McBrayer -- Dave

I have some nice heavy (14 gauge) wire that I’m using for bus wires. The current plan is that the HO standard gauge will be DCC, while the HOn30 narrow gauge will, at least for now, be DC only.

Allan, Absolutely right for a novice like me. And the ability to get a layout functioning more quickly keeps the interest level high. Hopefully some day I’ll be proficient enough to follow your

For wiring your turnout controls yourself, see my website at: http://www.wiringfordcc.com/sw_ctl.htm Allan Gartner Wiring for DCC

Hi All: What I have found out building Fast Track turnout over time, is to cut a slot on the bottom of each PC tie after the turnout is made. So their is no possible way for the current to flow to

Another product that offers complete turnout control, including panel indicators, is the Walther's Layout Control System: https://www.walthers.com/products/walthers-control-system While systems like

I had same question. Although somewhat daunting at first, it doesn’t have to be. After researching, the biggest issues for me were potential compatability of components from multiple vendors and

A wire from an actuator (tortise, servo, etc.) through a hole in a throw bar made from PC board, could touch foils on both sides. I build my turnouts in place and only use PC tie material for the

How do i wire turnout switches and motors and add direction signal led lights

Gary All this will be true with the Fast Tracks system, but this discussion started about turnouts, and track, that were built long before Fast Tracks came along. Both situations I described did

I'll echo what Gary says. I don't see any way that current gets from top to bottom copper unless a bit of solder crossed the gap or something else (??). Then the resistance would be tiny and an easy

Richard Sutcliffe writes: Both cases there was a very high resistance short, just a tiny leak of current. I’m sure many can relate to the term resistance leak. Dick, For me, the term, resistance

Allen. I just looked at your link. Great. Very nicely done. The problem I see is that people are waiting for PECO to send Unifrogs to the U.S. and that the wait is taking a very long time. And if they

I have written up the Peco Unifrog on my website at: http://www.wiringfordcc.com/switches_peco.htm#a7 It appears that the Unifrog will replace the Insulfrog and Electrofrog turnouts. Allan

I did not know that Peco were going to produce a Unifrog turnout and I am not sure what it will do. I.m guessing that it will be a turnout that makes both legs live. You can do this very simply by