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Good evening everyone, I am brand new to the hobby as well as the forum. I have a question that I am sure someone here can probably provide a decent answer to. I have just completed laying track for my first layout. I am using a Digitrax Zephyr DCC system, on a reasonable sized layout which contains a single main loop, a passing loop, and a 2 spur industry that fits on a 40" X 60" board. I am using an Atlas #48634 GP-40-2 Loco with a Digitrax DN163A0 decoder in it. My question is how fast should this engine run, when I first put it on the track it took 3 or 4 minutes for it to begin moving at all, now it seems to run fine at full speed, just not very fast and when I get it down near 1 on the controller it is really slow, anything below and there is no movement, it takes about 30 seconds to go around my main loop, just seems kind of slow to me, am I way wrong? Thanks in advance.
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