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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, August 3, 2021 6:20 AM

What happened with our OP?

Rich

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Posted by CARLAO on Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:00 AM

In my case, I have an Helix, my doubt , and that if Helix, causes polarity inversion in DCC?
Another question, and that AR-1 Digitrax, has capacity for more than one LOOP?I have 02 loops and a Helix.
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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:43 PM

ndbprr

Dogbone staging yard probably 6 tracks to a two track main.  T here will be several locations where swtchers will need to crossover to industries so it makes sense to have both mains with the same polarity and switch the loops. Simplest way I can come up with is either at the ends or split the loops into halves because it might be possible to have a train entering and another leaving at the same time causing circuit switching problems.  How should I do this the correct way? 

On my layout, a double mainline dogbone with both mainlines running parallel to themselves (per diagram) with a series of four double slips, between the end loops, I treated the sections of track immediately adjacent to the "4-track mainline" as reversing sections. So, I had four reversing sections, each long enough to accomodate the longest train.

The diagram that follows illustrates this arrangement with the reversing sections in red. All of the track in blue is part of the non-reversing section of the layout.

Rich

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Alton Junction

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Reverser questions
Posted by ndbprr on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 6:41 PM

Dogbone staging yard probably 6 tracks to a two track main.  T here will be several locations where swtchers will need to crossover to industries so it makes sense to have both mains with the same polarity and switch the loops. Simplest way I can come up with is either at the ends or split the loops into halves because it might be possible to have a train entering and another leaving at the same time causing circuit switching problems.  How should I do this the correct way?

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