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Middle Tenesee Model Railroaders

Does anybody know if The Middle Tenneessee Model Railroaders are still in existence? Ran into a "Tenneessee Crossroads" video on them and haven't been able to find anything else. I got to operate on Mark Juett's set -up for a couple hours and been wanting to run on something with true dispatcher controlled CTC Ever Since.

Setting Up CV Lighting Effect Inquiry

Hi,

Wondering if someone can help me out.  My apologies for the long note but want you to know where this is coming from.  I’m new to installing DCC decoders and setting up CVs.  The gentleman who installed and setup my decoders for years has retired so I’m learning as I go.  I used to tell him what I wanted and it would be done. 

LokSound Throttle Movement Delay

I have several LokSound equipped locomotives and by default there is about a 2 second delay before the model moves when you advance the throttle. I know that by changed the value in CV124, you can completely remove that delay, but I'd like to know if there is some secret setting(s) that would allow you to reduce the movement delay to say 1 or 1 1/2 seconds? I searched the 'net far and wide and can't find anything in regard to this.

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A Tale of Two Wires

Y'all probably know this, but I hadn't thought of this before.  Maybe it will help some new folks.

Copper wire is expensive.  But there is an alternative, CCA, or Copper Clad Aluminum, that is significantly cheaper.  On Amazon I found a 10 color set of 25' spools of 14 gauge stranded copper wire for $116, or 46 cents/foot.  I also found a 10 color set of 100' spools of 14 gauge stranded CCA wire for $53, or 5 cents/foot.

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Atlas snap relays with Dick Bronson's Tower Controller Mark II

Hello everybody, back with another question. So the large layout I work on inFayetteville, I post updates every now and then, has gotten to the point with rewiring that I am starting to plan out the signal system Electronics needed in detail. I've already decided to go with Dick Bronson's components but Nolan - the layout owner - has given me the condition that we have to use up his massive stockpile of Atlas switch control boxes and switch machines.

Is it prototypical for an engine to shove and pull cars at the same time?

Would you ever see a loco with a few cars being shoved and a few more being pulled while switching an industry? By few I mean two or three. I wondered if you'd see that if the alternative was a lot more shuffling of cars just to avoid it.

Matt

 

 

Would a engine ever have cars in front and behind when switching?

I'm wondering if you'd ever see a prototype where an engine had two or three cars in front of, and behind the engine, while doing some industry switching. I can't see why not, other than lousy visibility, but that seems to apply anytime one pushes cars.

Thanks for any insight.

Matt

 

Would an engine ever push a caboose with two or three cars ahead of the caboose?

I'm wondering if a prototype would ever push a set of two or three freight cars, with a caboose as the first car (immediately in front of the engine) at low speed for a mile or so. I'd assume that's a lot of pressure on the caboose and I wonder if the frame could handle it.

I'm wondering if some car movements I was doing on my model were completely unrealistic.

Matt

 

Conifer Forest Trees

One cannot see the forest without the trees or something like that.

The Columbia Cascade and Western club models a proto-freelance line between Albany and Bend Oregon over Santiam pass through the Deschutes National Forest. The club layout was featured in issue #36, February 2013, of Model Railroad Hobbyist.


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