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Rick: If you have that much isolation in your layout then what you want to do will be eaiser. Yyou are correct that the more blocks and the shorter they are will improve the accuracy of train location. The problem may end up being the cost of all the block detectors and an encoder to couple them to a computer. Before we get too involved with this it would help me to know several things: How many total blocks will exist on your layout? Do you have a list of functions you want this system to do? What's your comfort level with setting up computer train software? Are you yet committed to a specfic vendor for DCC? Do you have a budget in mind for the cost of doing this? I ask these questions because there are several ways to approach the problem and they vary from "make everything yourself" to buying commerical products with a large range in between.. There are a few commericial software products on the market that may provide a good base to start. If I had a better understanding of these questions I think I can be of more help. Regards; Ken
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