As a model train enthusiast you are familiar with the joys of conducting one model train on a single layout. It's safe to assume that manipulating multiple locomotives is twice or perhaps three times as gratifying.
To grab hold of the throttle and speed up one train, slow down another, and keep a third from slamming into them both, you must embrace cab control techniques and wiring required to make it tick! Power packs that AMP up power, toggle switches that choose your train of desired control and throttle cabs are the crucial tools needed in dodging your own disastrous bullets!
Resolving Issues Surrounding Conduction of Scale Model Locomotives
To independently control multiple locomotives you'll need to attach your trains to separate power packs on their own blocks of track. These blocks are divided into sections by insulation positioned in the rails.
Switches are used to connect however many switches you have directly to the tracks via a wire from the switch to the track. Then the toggle switch reaches out to one of the cabs with an additional wire. There is a common connection or wire between however many cabs you support and the rail opposite your switches wire on the tracks. These wires are also many times referred to as the Block Feeder and Common Feeder.
The same switch carrys common connections leading to which ever number of cabs you use. Your cab controlls your model trains forward, reverse and velocity. In order for this all to work your switch must be also connected to the opposite rail. This is achieved through a feed known as a Common Feeder attached to the opposite rail of the Block Feeder.
As a model train conductor you're aware of the dangers in running multiple locomotives around a single layout. Be on the look out for out of control locomotives bad track switches. Bad timing is also of concern as an improperly planed turnout or a simple passing in the yard could yield grave results if not on your toes.
Ok, that's it. This information has given you the heads up on electronic accessories and controlls needed to govern multiple locomotives in a single layout. - 30326
To grab hold of the throttle and speed up one train, slow down another, and keep a third from slamming into them both, you must embrace cab control techniques and wiring required to make it tick! Power packs that AMP up power, toggle switches that choose your train of desired control and throttle cabs are the crucial tools needed in dodging your own disastrous bullets!
Resolving Issues Surrounding Conduction of Scale Model Locomotives
To independently control multiple locomotives you'll need to attach your trains to separate power packs on their own blocks of track. These blocks are divided into sections by insulation positioned in the rails.
Switches are used to connect however many switches you have directly to the tracks via a wire from the switch to the track. Then the toggle switch reaches out to one of the cabs with an additional wire. There is a common connection or wire between however many cabs you support and the rail opposite your switches wire on the tracks. These wires are also many times referred to as the Block Feeder and Common Feeder.
The same switch carrys common connections leading to which ever number of cabs you use. Your cab controlls your model trains forward, reverse and velocity. In order for this all to work your switch must be also connected to the opposite rail. This is achieved through a feed known as a Common Feeder attached to the opposite rail of the Block Feeder.
As a model train conductor you're aware of the dangers in running multiple locomotives around a single layout. Be on the look out for out of control locomotives bad track switches. Bad timing is also of concern as an improperly planed turnout or a simple passing in the yard could yield grave results if not on your toes.
Ok, that's it. This information has given you the heads up on electronic accessories and controlls needed to govern multiple locomotives in a single layout. - 30326
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