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Well, I haven't wired anything yet... actually still building the benchwork, but I'm trying to get all my ducks in a row before I get to that point. I'm going to be the sole operator of a 16x21' layout (my wife gave me the bonus room for my b-day. lol). The branchline will have a continuous loop on it as well (4x8 mini-layout) but it won't cross the main, so running that will be no problem hands off, but the 'occassional mainline train' coming through during switching manuevers is what I'm really wanting to simulate. If there's no way to wire it without a PC, I'll have my computer up there once I've got the tables built, so that's not a problem, but if there's still no feasible way to do it, what I'll do is just run the mainline train on a continuous loop while I switch, and then pause my switching when it comes through, as though I called the dispatcher for clearance to cross the track. That's probably the easiest method anyway, and it'll be more mentally challenging to remember to realign all the switches before the mainline traffic passes through. If anybody can think of a way to do it, lemme know. And yes, I'm going 100% DCC from the start.
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