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I have written a manual for converting to battery operation. You can find it at www.bagrs.org and go to the tips and techniques page. DCC makes no sense for outdoor operation as you still have to clean the tracks. Use radio control and NiMH batteries. Even in a trail car NiMH batteries are much lighter and have more power than lead-acid batteries and are much more flexible for space configurations-- one user has put the round batteries in logs on a flat pulled by a Shay. All my engines have the batteries built in the engine with an external plug for a trail car if needed. My Shay, for instance, has 12 sub-C cells, locolinc, soundlinc and speaker all in the "bunker" and runs for three and half hours on a charge. I would love to see someone make a direct to cab radio link for DCC as the DCC equipment is good and also cheap. You MUST disconnect any wires going to the rails but then you can operate on any layout with no problems.
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