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May be what I am telling you here is common knowledge, but for me it was a very nice surprise. I am new to the railway modelling hobby. I have started with a digital kit from Roco, and now I added another R3 loop arround the initial R2 loop with turnouts between. At the begining I was thinking that I will need to buy the special PC interface in order to control my train from the PC. After some searching on the net, I have discovered that this was wrong. Everything that I needed was a cable with a DB-9 interface at one end to be connected to the computer's serial port, and with a RJ11 connector at the other end, to be connected instead of the Locomouse in the digital booster (10761) that controls the circuit. All the required software is free, and now I control my locomotives (and in the future the turnouts when I will buy DCC enabled turnout engines) from the PC. I am not writing more now, because if everybody already knows this, my message will be boring. But if you are interested to hear how you can do this, tell me and I will write a small howto. From what I have read, it is easy to do this with Lenz and Conrad also. For the rest, it seems that some electronics are involved. For the final, sorry for posting here if this is not the right place, but this is the only forum I am reading.
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