I have a Ho scale Walthers Oil pump that has the DC powered motor to turn it. Problem is I dont have a wall outlet near the pump to plug in a old DC wall wart to power it. I do however have a DCC bus that powers all my switches and interior building LED lights on my layout. Will this device allow me to connect to my DCC bus so it converts it over to DC so I can operate the pump motor?

Getting ready to wire up the final staging yard area and my wye has changed from the original plan. Shown below is how I plan to do the reversing loop for the wye, gaps to isolate the track closest to the bottom as it enters the wye from the right. I figure I also need to include some of the helix track for a train entering or exiting the wye to or from the helix. I think I'd have to be careful not to have a train on the helix portion at the same time another train is on that bottom yard track. Does this look like the best way to handle this? 

Being I am researching on the new layout, and did a search on here, but was not able to find the info, but I was wondering if anyone has the relation of sizes from HO scale to 1:1 for #6, 8 and 10 switches.  Any help would be great and appreciated.  I am looking at using a min of #6 or 8 on the new layout which will fit into a 30x 30 room

Nate

Ontario Eastern Railway

I'm having nightmares about a gate or bridge (and perhaps more than one) in my benchwork being open as one of my KA-equipped locos pulls up to it with capacitors not yet drained.  Between the decoder's momentum settings and the KA I'm sweating either early equipment retirement or sharpening my soldering and other repair skills.