Varying the Voltage of a Flyer Transformer at Remote Locations

[Timboy]

Thanks Bob!  I think I finally have this worked out to have the kind of vintage Flyer layout I want with a small central command and some select remote areas I can put under local control briefly to perform an operation or two.  I'll use the rotary dimmer switches available for household incandescent lighting.  They will certainly be robust enough.  I can get them for about $12 each from Leviton's. They also have a push-button on/off feature that will be very nice and it should be easy to work them into the landscape.  Since most of my layout will be track running though wide open counrty-side, I'll only need 4, but I'll pick up a couple to dial in my two vibrating mat accessories from a dedicated accessory transformer and to regulate some overhead track lighting on it's own dedicated circuit as well.  Even though I'll have a lot of running track, I'll only be running at the very, very most 3 trains at any one time, so a single high-wattage Flyer transformer dedicated to the track only should do the trick.

Thanks again,

Timboy

[lionelsoni]

That should work fine.

[Timboy]

Hi Guys: 

Here is an American Flyer question I have about controlling the track voltage at remote locations using a Flyer five-digit 350 watt (#22090) AC transformer.  Let's say that I have one Flyer #22090 transformer to run several trains through multiple blocks.  Is there a way that I can slow down and stop a train within a given block without disturbing the operation of other trains that are running off of the same #22090 in other blocks?  Would it be safe to use a rheostat at a given block to do that?  I'm thinking that the rheostat would then be turned up all the way to deliver whatever voltage is coming out of the #22090 when re-starting the train and driving it into the next block.  It sounds simple enough but I don't know the physics of it all and don't know if that would be safe.  I want to find some American Flyer way to do this and I don't want to use any modern technology from any other source.  Rheostats were available in the '50's.

Thanks,

Timboy