I am getting ready to lay track on my new nscale layout. I am completly new to dcc and using the NCE power pro system. I have included a quick sketch of my yard areas on the first level and need some serious help with reverse loops:tb-confused:. I know I need a or some reversing modules. My question is where do I put my gaps or is this too crazy of a track plan? If it can work what brand of modules do you guys recommend and how many should I get? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Brian
Unless you are running a 44 tonner hauling one or two small ore hoppers, I think you are going to have a lot of problems in that constricted crossover-slash-throat in the middle there. I wouldn't dream of running a longer steamer and some 60-85 foot passenger cars with body mounted couplers from the lower half diagonally and on through to the upper half. If you are really stuck on this plan, a plan I have never seen depicted anywhere before today, could you possibly try it with one or two well-placed double-slip turnouts instead? For a single reverser to work, if you end up running this plan largely as it shows now, you would need all the classification tracks gapped at the dotted line you show, and the reverser would have to run feeders to each of them, depending on the turnouts you use. If they are not power routing, then you could probably feed each of the single stems at top and bottom, and power would run nicely around their crescents.
The point where you show your backdrop line would be where I would place, on the outer two tracks, the gaps (the two inner spurs do not constitute a reverse loop). There is no problem with having all the branching within the loop. The trick is to ensure that you do not have one train leaving the yard on one track, and another entering on the other -- doesn't matter how many are within the yard at any given time, just that only one gap is being crossed at a time. My recommendation, get a PSX-AR. Just installed mine, and works fantastically.
