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Anyone with DC still?
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Call me crazy, but I just finished installing Atlas 1950's style controls on a 3 by 6 foot N scale layout, with 2 reverse loops, 4 mainline blocks, and 6 Atlas #6 switches. It took 4 days to do that "simple" wiring. My son and I found it pretty hard to keep 2 trains running without mistakes in power block assignments and switch track routing, but we'll get better. We had some good laughs at our derailments and accidental power control hand-offs! My grandson, who's 5, will not operate on this layout until we convert to DCC in the far off future. That way, he'll have to think only about the switch tracks. This DC layout is fun to operate with only one person and one train, though, because you don't have to throw block controls.
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