Hi All, good evening,

Just want to share the "minor surgery" I had to do in my layout. A crossover between a runaround track and a departure track.

I should have known from the start that I would need to do this. After all, before and while planning the layout I read, I guess, all the books on the subject! Even the John Armstrong book...

Anyway, one only notices the fault when it is needed.

So, here goes.

The idea is to place a crossover here:

What I'd like to see...

 While I understand you might be seperated by a few hundred miles or more,  I'd really like to see ya'll get together some how, and write a book on all of the aspects of the subject. The history* of it, the mines, operations,  the RR's involved, why you model the portion that you do. There's so much information hiding out there.

*Other than what's on Wikipedia. I'm sure there's more to it than that.

It's not April Fools -- Bruce Petrarca, the MRH DCC Columnist, is retiring as of the August 2018 issue.

Bruce is also doing a DCC book for MRH, which we will publish.

But that's it for Bruce. He's going to focus on doing the hobby for himself and his local club -- the nerve of some people! (wink)

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As you probably know, the transfer of energy in a conductor is a manifestation of the movement of electrons under the influence of an external charge. Electrons are not free to move in the conductor, but are loosely held in molecular orbits. (Each electron has its own orbit/energy in accordance with the Pauli exclusion principle.) When an electron absorbs a photon from the external electromagnetic field, the additional energy may cause the electron to leave the orbit or even the molecule, becoming a free electron movng on the vector imparted by the photon.