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I tried the old bulletin board this morning - old habits are hard to break - and it worked correctly! hmmmm Dale.

Putting insulated joiners at the frog rail ends of the turnout during the initial installation of does help to... 1) isolate electrofrogs without rail cutting. 2) isolate track into signal blocks 3) i

I have an existing layout. I'm getting ready to change over to DCC. I have Electrofrog Peco turnouts. I have heard that if you put insulators on the frog rails and the stock rails of the switch, I won

Paul, One of the statements I often heard about conversion from DC to DCC is that if everything works under DC, just hook up a DCC booster, and things will work. In my opinion, this has to be taken wi

Its time again to remind everyone it is your railroad. As long as it works, you can do what you want to. What I try to give in my website is bulletproof advice that will definitely work for everyone.

Hi Paul I agree with what Dale has said and all that Allan with his Wiring for DCC site suggests, Ulrich has stated what I have termed, "too many negatives to go to DCC" and has scared off many a pote

I did not want to scare anyone off DCC, but would actually encourage everyone to take this route. I would only recommend that everything is working fine under DC so that the conversion experience does

Can any one help here. I have several of this crossovers and understand that they can be a problem with shorting on DCC if the wiring is not corrected. Are there any artilces I can obtain or can anyon

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hello everyone, im new here and i have a question. i purchased a MRC AD520 auto reverse unit about 6 or 8 months ago. since then i have gotten my layout ready and need to install it. i am useing the n

Anyone out there ever wire a IHC Cab Forward for DCC? I am lost even figuring how to get it open.

I have a fairly ambitious layout a-building, and it's time I considered DCC power distribution. I have posted a PDF to the files section of this group, named "ACR 20040402b DCC.pdf", to give you an id

hello everyone, i was reading allans site and i noticed he says (Do not connect your main bus to your reversing section in any way. Your reversing section must only be connected to your reverse sectio

Hi! I'm new to the forum. I'm 59 year, and live in Norway, having an US type Model railroad. I have used Command control since the CTC16 in the 1980's. I use Command 2000 now, but have planned to chan

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I am building a model of Great Shefford, on of the stations on the Lambourn Valley Railway set in the mid 30's. One of the main features of this station was the scissor crossing which allowed access t

Don thanks very much for the time & effort you gave to my question. I feel i can now follow the example you provided & finish wiring to my Tortoise machines. Jim

Have not purchased a DCC system yet and have never wired a model railroad but have completed my benchwork and ready to start wiring. Do i wire both rails or just one? Is it clear on the back of the DC

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