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<p>Great, thanks.</p><p>That schematic from .org was what I was pointed to earlier. It gets me pretty far and makes some sense. But as you can see, that picture shows <em>two</em> DPDT switches, each wired a bit differently. Am I suppossed to have one DPDT switch on the whole main line of my railroad and another DPDT switch on the turn-around loop? When the train is on the turn around loop, I'll flip the DPDT switch that controls the entire lay-out so it's ready for the train to come back on line going the other way. Once it's on the main line (running the opposite way) I'll throw the DPDT switch on the turn around loop so it's ready for the train to come into it when I want to go back the other direction. IS that how it works? Two DPDT switches?</p><p>Or</p><p>Main railroad on standard controller hook up and just the turn around loop on one of these DPDT switches?</p><p>Thanks for taking a minute of your day to help me here.</p><p>CooHead</p>
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