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Hi Ed-- Thanks for the reply. An Inglenook is a cool switching puzzle I ran across which is simply a three-spur yard which can handle 5 cars on one spur and 3 each on the other two. The lead can handle the loco plus 3 cars. Eight cars are placed on the yard and 5 car cards are drawn at random. The goal is to make up the train of the 5 cars in the order drawn in the fewest amount of moves. It seems deceptively simple, and sometimes is, but sometimes is incredibly difficult. An online version can be found at: http://www.precisionlabels.com/shunt/jpage330.html The Timesaver is another classic switching puzzle developed by John Allen which involves swapping 5 cars on 5 spurs with a short runaround. See http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/sw-timesaver.html I figure with these to keep the switcher in me happy and an oval to keep my little guy interested (plus a train on the mainline will keep me from cheating on the Inglenook!) I get the best of both worlds. It is getting harder and harder to find info on cab control with everyone using DCC these days, but I figure I'd better ease back into things first. Thanks again GF
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