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DCC Control

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 28, 2005 9:51 AM
Make a big RED arrow out of label/sticker material and stick it on the console pointing to the Emergrency Stop button.

Who said MRR is boring? [:D]
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Posted by dano99a on Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:33 PM
Digitrax needs to make that emergency stop button a little bigger, I find myself panicing for it on occasion. [:)]

Reasons not to start running 2+ trains and then sit down and start modeling something at the work bench !!! hee hee

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Posted by NZRMac on Thursday, January 27, 2005 8:17 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by simon1966

........and while you are concentrating on train B, you notice that train A is heading for something it should'nt and there is a mad panic to switch back to A! DCC adds so much fun to MRR running.


Man been there!! It's quiet exciting.
when you do push emergency stop you have to think what am I going to do now take train A off the track or quickly reverse direction of train B when I restart them.

you gotta be quick!!

Ken.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:31 PM
Ha Ha luckily the tracks are just loops and the switches are rarely open[:)]
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Posted by simon1966 on Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:12 PM
........and while you are concentrating on train B, you notice that train A is heading for something it should'nt and there is a mad panic to switch back to A! DCC adds so much fun to MRR running.

Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:59 PM
THANK YOU DIGITAL GRIFFIN i have been wondering this for a long time!!![:)]
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Posted by DigitalGriffin on Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:24 PM
Train A will keep going when you switch to B.

Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions

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DCC Control
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:24 PM
Ok, im thinking of getting a Digitrax DCC system but was wondering for instance if i start controlling Train A and the switch to Train B will Train A just stop, or will it just keep on going until i select it again and tell it to stop?

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