Tallpaul70
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- 4 Dec 2018
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Hi Everyone,
As you may have seen from my last entry in my thread "To DCC or not?" I have decided to go for DCC in my new 00 gauge 12ftx8ft round and round layout, based on a 2 track WR main line, branch junction, and yard.
The layout track plan will be a compromise because while the main focus is on a 1960-62 era scene in the lower Thames Valley west of London, I have, and wish to run, from time to time, locos and stock from a number of periods up to c2016 when electrification infrastructure (which I am not a fan of), spread into the area.
I want to run singlehanded, a fairly intensive timetable, which I have generated from what I consider are the interesting movements from the 1960 WTT, coach and locomotive diagrams.
So, I think I need eventually, to have a touch screen mimic diagram.
A measure of optional automation might be good, to run, when I so choose, some of the more routine, but necessary trains, while I concentrate on the more interesting moves.
Initially my DCC equipment will be used on a small end to end test track, that I am setting up in my workshop, which is separate from the dedicated railway room.
Having set the scene in this first post, next time I will share the details of the equipment I have bought.
Best regards
Paul
As you may have seen from my last entry in my thread "To DCC or not?" I have decided to go for DCC in my new 00 gauge 12ftx8ft round and round layout, based on a 2 track WR main line, branch junction, and yard.
The layout track plan will be a compromise because while the main focus is on a 1960-62 era scene in the lower Thames Valley west of London, I have, and wish to run, from time to time, locos and stock from a number of periods up to c2016 when electrification infrastructure (which I am not a fan of), spread into the area.
I want to run singlehanded, a fairly intensive timetable, which I have generated from what I consider are the interesting movements from the 1960 WTT, coach and locomotive diagrams.
So, I think I need eventually, to have a touch screen mimic diagram.
A measure of optional automation might be good, to run, when I so choose, some of the more routine, but necessary trains, while I concentrate on the more interesting moves.
Initially my DCC equipment will be used on a small end to end test track, that I am setting up in my workshop, which is separate from the dedicated railway room.
Having set the scene in this first post, next time I will share the details of the equipment I have bought.
Best regards
Paul