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In lugnet.town, Andreas Stabno writes:
> I've been adding some MOCs to my city over the last couple of years and
> decided to take a few pictures before Minizilla took down the house.
<snip really great pics of really great MOCs!!>
>
> Train Control Tower
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/astabno/Plasticity3/dcp_2624.jpg
Wow! This is impressive! Six train controllers and eighteen (coun't 'em!)
polarity switches! Golly!
I'd love to get some more details on what's going on here. Are there six
separate loops, or have you used insulated connections to create six control
blocks? If the latter, how does that work out? Are you able to run multiple
trains at different speeds and directions?
Can you provide a track layout plan (with electrical blocks indicated, if
appropriate)?
Also, are all those polarity switches for remote turnouts? Or do they control
other stuff as well?
Thanks!
Rick Clark
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| (...) You're giving me some great ideas, Rick, but really my setup was quite simple. As you can see at (URL) were three separate train loops, each with one controller. Another controller served the switching yard. The fifth one provided power to 6 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)
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