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Total newby question on reversing loop...
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<p>Try running your train manually through the reversing loop. You can do it if you are quick. Just wire up both loops with DC power and ram across the cutouts. You will begin to see what is needed switchwise. It is a more difficult problem to design a reversing loop where you can enter from EITHER direction. If you stick with entering from just ONE direction, you can buy a simple DC reversing circuit and wire it in, or you can install the switches. Then you wont have to throw any switches. If you want to enter the loop from EITHER direction, things get a bit more complicated, but it can be done. Done with switches, you really need lights to tell you if the reverse loop is different or the same (although its possible to memorize it, I guess). With DCC, reversing loops are actually simpler, BTW.</p><p> Anyway, try running the train through the loop "manually". You will have to reverse the transformer as you cross ONE of the cutouts. The other you will not have to reverse it. It changes, depending on how you enter the loop.</p><p>Have fun!</p>
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