Thank you Alan Your page answered many questions I had not yet begun to know I had. :)) Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEdLzRL3u-w I am considering modeling these cars and whole trains in N scale; including the Red Genset Locomotive in NWP. I am wondering how they bury the Different Col

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 each

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 level. https://www.youtube.com/watch

To me.... This is the topic. I want a system that is easy to use and doesn't require a huge time sync earning process. :)) Mark Hence ....JMRI is off topic to such a reality.

Mark Gurries is correct in this but I am not sure I got his Other Meaning....In that it won't work all the time, under all conditions. Could be this is why or as I have learned to say WYE. A funny thi

Pete ... Americans can be relied upon to do the right thing... After they have tried everything else. - Winston Churchill If you truly do not want to do the upgrade path....and prefer 5 amps and a wir

Pete, Good Luck in being able to do it "right the first time." I did not.... Maybe. I have owned at least 8 different DCC Control Systems, before eventually landing on the ESU ECoS; as the chosen one.

Match So here is what I am doing now..... Cause I am not Steve Wozniak and can't put odd components together for Pong. https://www.modeltrainstuff.com/esu-50010-ecosboost-4-amp-ext-booster-mm-dcc-sx-m

As from a previous thread...(deleted by management) >>> I am a big proponent of a properly wired AND Grounded (with pound in ground 10' spikes) BEFORE Beginning any phase of DCC ... be it wiring the l

Thanks Don... I have never yet used a RC Filter/snubber https://sites.google.com/site/markgurries/home/dcc-general-best-practices/wiring-planing/snubbers-rc-filter and with a single ECoS eventually ta

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 01:21 PM, Don Vollrath wrote: Don, Thank you for responding.... Are the two bascule bridges joined together when closed at a center pier? No not yet > But I have considered it;

Hello all... I uploaded my Combination Layouts which together I have named the Betwixt And Between for I am also in an attempt to join them, using two Lionel Bascule Bridges, re-detailed to N Scale. T

Morgan and all.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyy2gQyNso Listen to this carefully about people going off in many directions. and NOT being Focused. ==== Apple was like this circa 1997 with Open

No Apparently however - it is the other way around, with the ESU ECoS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJDefT8Udck I discovered that some DCC Decoders will not fully function even on their own brand (

Thank you for both of your replies... Now combine them.... I have a very long reply which is in the Drafts... To save you all the tedious time of reading it... Here is the Gist: You need to get the wh

Scroll down to the Application 2 Example. https://dccwiki.com/Reverse_Sections I installed such a Wye with an Auto Reverser on my last modular layout with sections of Kato Unitrack, so it was easily s

With all of the above said.... I am at present on a new concept of limiting abuses in my life which include N Scale Turnouts and so called Auto Reversers...along with other aspects of model railroadin

Pat.... There is another whole/hole consideration with Big Boys and DCC with Sound. Example.... I own this N Scale Brass Model of the Big Boy http://spookshow.net/loco/keybigboy.html As well as few of

Pat, I actually can't take direct credit for willfully purchasing my first ECoS with 100% understanding in what I was doing....Mine actually showed up on eBay, with a sellers address from Pennsylvania