Looks great with the flowing curves, I am building a 15ft long layout in N solo so I appreciate how much work msut have gone in to this even for a club.

Andrew

Indeed, it has yaken our group (6 of us), just over a year to get this far. Although, it's really now where the hard work starts with the scenics ;-)

How far into your build are you?

Hi Mark,

All track down and half the point motors installed and wired but with 48 points its turning in to mammoth task! Since you guys are using Digitrax did you consider accessory decoders with loconet for feedback?

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

To be honest, we didn't give feedback much of a thought, as we only intend to operate them via the Command Station, by Throttle or using something like a JMRI Panel. This should allow the Accessory Decoders to keep track of them, once they have been operated once or initialised.

We have also split the layout into Power Districts, with a dedicated PD for the Accessory Decoders, which all things being equal should never short and shut down, so reardless of what's happening on the layout (short wise), we will be able to switch points and reliably know what state they are in.

The main factor though was cost, Accessory Decoders are expensive bit's of kit on top of the motors and points required, so in the end we decided to use the MERG Accessory Decoders. These operate 4 solenoid or slow action point motors and come as a kit for assembly. As one of our members has the skills, he made them up for us. They are around