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    Laying Track on Foam

    Dave, thanks for your thoughts.
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    Laying Track on Foam

    Thanks for your reply. I've thought about the sound and am ok with that. Thanks for sharing your experience with laminating foam to ply. I am encourged.
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    Laying Track on Foam

    I recently dismantled and removed my 1st HO layout and am planning to rebuild it with modifications to the benchwork based on lessons learned from that first layout. Attached is a photo from the 1st layout. For my 2nd layout, I plan to attach track directly to foam. No cork roadbed. My plan is...
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    DCC and Automatic Reverse Circuit

    Great …Thank you. I will search for the YouTube videos.
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    DCC and Automatic Reverse Circuit

    Thanks. I may be wrong (not the first time) but I think that’s basically what Iron Horseman was suggesting.
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    DCC and Automatic Reverse Circuit

    Thanks. I understand. Am I going to run multiple trolleys on the same track? No. Then why is the trolley DCC? The short is because I was dumb when I bought it. Having a DCC system, I thought I needed a DCC trolley. It didn’t occur to me at the time that it would be cheaper and easier actually...
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    DCC and Automatic Reverse Circuit

    Thanks for taking the time to respond. I actually built that. As a standalone removable unit. Still have it. This is my 1st layout. Wish I had done L-girder with risers. Anyway, the standalone arrangement worked fine, just didn’t look right on the layout. Also difficult to reach. I’m limited...
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    DCC and Automatic Reverse Circuit

    Thanks!
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    DCC and Automatic Reverse Circuit

    This is my 1st post on this forum. I have an HO DCC trolley. As a small part of my overall layout, I want to run the trolley on a straight point to point track. When it reaches either end of the track, I want the trolley to stop, pause and reverse direction. Back and forth. Nothing fancy. My...
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