DUring our July 3rd Sunday gathering we ran totally under DCC control. One member ran his new Athern 4-6-6-4 (with sound) that really sounded cool albeit he forgot the volume control wand to turn the sound down. Between that unit and a sound equipped PCM E-7, the room was full of railroading sounds.

Looks like we have most of the layout bugs squashed - with one exception. We finally began testing the peninsula part of the layout. This section connects into the main layout via a 'T' module that contains a wye off the #2 and #3 mainlines (N-Trak). These tracks then enter a double return loop. This is the first time we have used DCC in this configuration and found we have issues. We have an auto-reversing circuit on the loop but it seems we goofed in that we have a second reversing area per the wye's on the T module. OOPS!

At this time we can't run DCC on the inner loop track without issues. Looks like we will need to modify the wiring and block protection in this area.

What's another train project anyway!

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Bruce (McToots) McElhoe
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