Don, not sure why you're addressing this to me, as I sent no drawings. Try addressing Vincent? Blair

Whoops, forgot one. Here's a very helpful site: https://sites.google.com/site/markgurries/ Blair

Tom - Join the yahoo group Digitrax@yahoo.com (you may already be a member; yahoo no longer allows users to see the membership list, as far as I can tell); it's run by users, not the company, so you'l

Vincent, As for the number of engines, what matters is how many you'll be running at any one time. With a basic oval 5x12, you'd have about 30' of track; assuming double track, you might, if you're am

Vincent I'd prefer some experienced NCE users to chip in here; my world is Digitrax. If no one does, I can try to sort the NCE manual for you; I'm sure it's not as bad as the Digitrax one, so there is

Vincent I'm not an NCE user, but here goes. If you have two devices, each of which can provide 5 Amps to power your trains, you may not merge the DCS and DB booster outputs before splitting off to the

Still can't post anything to files. Don has helped me determine the best solution, anyway, but it's impossible to provide the final version. Thanks, folks. Blair

Hi Don New sketch attached. Regards Blair [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Don't know what's with groups. Restarted my browser, entered groups via email link instead of neo, still nothing. Click on upload, select file, add comment, click save, window grays out and nothing ha

I'll try to post it later. Yahoo won't let me post it, for some reason. B

Don In my original email, I described traffic as follows: "A train from the junction will visit the sinter mill once daily, arriving by the lower track at right... Generally, all or a portion of the a

Thanks, Don. That was my thinking; since the A/D train will often be longer than the green, it makes sense to make the green plus red all one large autoreversing section. Consists will often be 4 SD40

Hi Folks I've placed "Wawa_Reversing.jpg" in the files section. The background is: The layout is HO, with Digitrax DCC. This is a sinter mill scene. A train from the junction will visit the sinter mil

All good points, Don, I'll keep that list in mind as we dig deeper. Many of the joints are crimp butt-splice connectors, good in theory but prone to weak-hand syndrome. Thanks Blair

Thanks, Mark. It's more a matter of "If it works, I'm not touching it. I might break it." He's change-wary. This solution will likely make sense to him, as it's not really disturbing what he has. We'l

Hi Debugging another friend's layout. His bus wiring is not up to snuff, as the coin test fails in many sectors. It's clear to me that his bus wires, 16 and 18 ga speaker wire with numerous butt-splic

Y'know, this is more than a yahoo group. It's also the portal to a great website, www.wiringfordcc.com, where all this information is available. We should be posting links, like: http://wiringfordcc.c

I agree with the philosophy, Dante, but when laying new switches, I do put a wire drop in from the frog to below the layout. That way, in future, juicing the frog isn't a painful task, should it becom

Ed, Apologies to all, but particularly you. Somehow (I've been messing with my sorting rules, or someone has) I had messages from both the Digitrax list and the WiringforDCC list cross-pollinating in

In case it matters to anyone, I believe the OP is using Digitrax, as he posted this question to that list as well, and is now receiving advice on both lists. Even this analogy is flawed, but it's usef