power transformers

[Anonymous]

Iam looking for some help in picking out a power pack for my nscale track.my table is30"x78" with two trains running at the same time. thanks gary

[Anonymous]

We need a little more information. Are both trains going to be on the same track? or different track?
ennout

[ezielinski]

It's not the size of the...table[;)], as long as you have feeder wires about every 3 feet. If your running DC, an MRC Tech4 260 easily power 7 locomotives. If your running DCC, that's a whole other story which someone else will have to chime in on.

[Anonymous]

one large track but about 12 2700 atlas Lh remote switches and 2 #6rh remote switches and 2 rh #2700 remote switch . as you can se iam not very good on the computer thanks for your help. please could you send some websites for power transformers thanks gary

[ezielinski]

http://www.modelrectifier.com/products/trainSound/tech4.asp

You will want one power pack to power your trains, and a simple "introductory-type" power pack to power your turnouts.

[Anonymous]

If you try and run two train on one track, one of them will end up being faster than the other, which will cause one to run into the tail end of the other sooner or later.
You can go DCC. Then you can run as many trains as you have room for. DCC is a lot easier to wire up than DC in the first place. You do have to have decoders in your engines or be able to put them in. Its a little more spendy in the begining but sooo much more fun.
But let's get back to your question in the first place. Have you tried talking with the people at your local hobby shop? I have heard "Tony's " mentioned here on this site alot. Heres another "http://store.standardhobby.com/"
If you want to run two trains on DC. You will have to put in blocks and run two different controlers (power packs) or one power pack that has dual controls. Even then, you stand a good chance to run the trains in to each other).
ennout

[Anonymous]

thankyou for your time and information very helpfull. gary

[Anonymous]

I would have to agree with ezielinski on the MRC. I have a MRC Tech II Railpower 1400 to power my train. I have had it for almost 20 years. (off and on....I'm back to on now) I just started back into model railroading and took my stuff out of the boxes, boxed up for 9 years :( The power pack still works great !

[Texas Zepher]

I agree, it is hard to go wrong with and MRC Tech series power supply. I've still got an original AMP-PACK (pre tech) from 1969 that works great.