Reply to "BlueRail Upgrade to Atlas AEM-7"

Casey_JonesOGR Forum Member

@Ron045, I've enjoyed your posts and YouTube vids on BlueRail, thank you for sharing these.

Question if I may, now that you have been implementing/experimenting with BlueRail with battery power vs track power, where do you see this could go? Do you see yourself (or others) now switching to 2 rail O scale track? I mean if ya are going dead rail, then...why 3 rail tracks? Could ya, in theory, replace your layout with 2 rail and dead rail, would ya have to give up anything?

Just thinking out loud here for a sec, I guess what would be lost or needed to overcome would be accessories that are track activated, lights in passenger cars or cabooses, electro-couplers, smoke units (I assume they would chew up battery time). You would still need to power the switches, (would you lose the non-derailing feature if the track isn't powered?) How would you handle uncoupler tracks? I guess they would need to powered separately

Just curious to see what your thoughts are

Thanks in advance

3/9/2110:37 PM

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