Joe Fugate Modeling the 1980s SP Siskiyou Line in southern Oregon
QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate Randy: As usual, a very helpful informative post. Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------------- To everyone: I'm going to be out from tomorrow through Sunday doing train stuff ... the local SP fans are holding a mini-meet including an excursion train behind SD9s down the Tillamook coast branch. As part of this meet, I'm hosting an op session tomorrow evening and opening for layout tours on Sunday. Saturday is the excursion (got my ticket!) and Friday is an all day session with clinics, swap meet, and other fun goodies. I plan to take photos of the op session to post for one of my regular op session reports, and I'll be taking photos of the excursion as well! So the earliest you'll see the next post on this clinic is next Monday or Tuesday. But at least I have a good excuse! [:D]
Owner and superintendant of the N scale Texas Colorado & Western Railway, a protolanced representaion of the BNSF from Fort Worth, TX through Wichita Falls TX and into Colorado.
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Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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QUOTE: Originally posted by jrbernier MisterBeasley, The 'RRampMeter' from Tony's Trains should do the trick. There may be others. Here is the URL: http://www.tonystrains.com/technews/rrampmeter.htm Jim Bernier
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Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
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QUOTE: Originally posted by knewsom Joe, I have the Prodigy Advanced system, and it says in the manual that it will support up to 99 cabs. On the PA there are 3 ports for plugging in throttles on the command station and one that is for factory use only. You can purchase the extension plates to expand and it says that the command station can support up to 6 throttles. After those 6 you will need to buy a special powered extension plate (available through MRC only of course) for every additional 5 throttles. It does not have a lot of detail in the PA manual, but it appears that you can create a throttle bus by splitting the ethernet type connectors. I have two throttles for my layout and I am in the process of setting up the throttle bus. I am awaiting the y-harness for the extension plates that I ordered. When I get them I will test to make sure that you can run multiple throttles from one of the ports on the command station. I should also add that the MRC manual says that the base unit can only communicate with one throttle at a time. So for optimum performance you should set the last cab# so that it will not try to communicate with throttles above that id. In addition there is a switch on the command station to limit the # of throttle cabs to #1-#8 to increase performance as well. I don't know if other systems work the same as this but I just wanted to give some more detail on the Prodigy Advanced. Thanks, Kevin PS. I am really enjoying this thread.
QUOTE: Originally posted by jfugate How we doing so far ... are we covering things you find useful? Any questions on what we've covered so far?
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