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I will give the reverse advice and say if you are new to the hobby, forget that dc even existed and go dcc. By getting into dcc early in the game, you are saving yourself so much grief. I have met a number of excellent modellers who would love to go dcc but because of owning so many engines feel it would be too expensive to go that route. If you go dc, eventually you will go dcc, and you will be out of pocket the money you spent on the dc power pack, the Atlas gizmo's to direct your blocks, etc. DCC simplifies your wiring, even auto reversing areas such as you are asking about. I guess if you are asking here you feel - for whatever reason - your LHS isn't that helpful. Why not draw up a rough plan (nothing fancy) of your track and get a friend to scan it for you and store it at www.trainboard.com in the "Imaging" section. Then provide a link to the pic and we can help you to identify and solve your reversing loop problems here in this forum. With the auto reversing decoders you can get for your layout, running your trolleys will be a lot simpler than with block dc. You don't say if you actually bought a dcc unit; if you did, what did you get? That info will be helpful to have.
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