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How to wire this return/reverse loop?

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How to wire this return/reverse loop?
Posted by Onewolf on Monday, January 26, 2015 1:45 PM

On my new layout I am going to have a return/reverse loop with staging tracks inside the loop. It's going to be a double track 'mainline' (dogbone) entering the the return loop with two crossovers.  Each of the crossovers creates a reverse loop. I was wondering where the reversing section(s) should be and how this should be wired (for DCC) assuming I will be using DCC reversing module(s) like a PSX-AR or similar.  Thanks. 

Here's a simplified version of the track layout with the double track mainline heading off to the left :

ReturnLoop

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Posted by carl425 on Monday, January 26, 2015 4:36 PM

All you need to do is to gap both rails of both tracks just to the right of the crossover closest to the loop.  That is the only one that creates the reverse loop.

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Posted by Onewolf on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 5:46 AM
Thanks. That's easy enough. :)

Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.

- Photo album of layout construction -

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