Dumb DCC question

jkeaton

Member since
January 2002
From: Ottawa, Canada
234 posts

Posted by jkeaton on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 12:08 PM

Using DCC, one can easily recreate some of the great train crashes of old - didn't some guy deliberately recreate a head-on collision from the war-time Santa Fe and post photos onto the web somewhere?

Jim
Ottawa

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johncolley

Member since
February 2002
From: PtTownsendWA
1,445 posts

Posted by johncolley on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 10:42 AM

Ah, Yessss, Cornfield meets! Those were the days!

jc5729

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Anonymous

Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 4:32 AM

I "test" mine on a regular basis. So far.........no panic.

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davekelly

Member since
December 2003
From: Rhode Island
2,216 posts

Posted by davekelly on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 3:26 AM

Gotta love the panic button!!

If you ain't having fun, you're not doing it right and if you are having fun, don't let anyone tell you you're doing it wrong.

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pcarrell

Member since
February 2005
From: In the State of insanity!
7,982 posts

Posted by pcarrell on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:22 PM

Ahh the joys of prototypical running!

(seems like theres an echo in here?)

Philip

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wrumbel

Member since
December 2004
From: Grand Blanc, Mi
151 posts

Posted by wrumbel on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:32 PM

I've already done that with my DCC. Don't pay attention, throw a switch too soon and hit the panic button.
Wayne

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rrinker

Member since
February 2002
From: Reading, PA
30,002 posts

Posted by rrinker on Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:39 AM

With regular DC, the NMRA standard says with the right rail positive, the loco should move forward. So if you take two DC locos and simple turn one to face the other - it will move backwards, away from the other and they won't crash (unless the one runs slower than the other). If you flip the trucks in one (with Athearn - other brands that use wires throughout instead of the clips and the frame will need the wires flipped on the motor), it will now run opposite the NMRA standard and you can cra***he two head-on.

No such thing is neede with DCC, all locos run independently of all others (as long as the addresses are different). So you can play Gomez all you want. Under DCC with multiple operators you need some sort of traffic control - signals or train orders, to prevent accidents much like the real thing.

--Randy

Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

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