I thought I would perpetuate this thread instead of starting something new. I am a long time model railroader, but it’s all been in HO, N, and 2-rail O scale. In those endeavors I was always a straight DC guy—no DCC.
The new layout is in its infancy, but the basic idea was a large double track semi-dogbone layout with the outer track being 2-rail O and the inner track starting out as 3R.
My entire locomotive collection right now consists of a 2-rail Atlas Rsd-15, a Weaver Rs-3 that has NWSL magic carpets installed with an old Aristo electronic speed control wired for a 8.4v RC car battery (my first crack at battery power)—
and
a just purchased MTH DL-109 (ps1) and a DL-110 (Ps3), along with a Weaver 3R Royal Hudson, which has whatever those have installed.
It seems an ideal time to research ideas for configuring everything, and ideally it would be great to have one system of control for everything while my motive power roster is tiny.
As I’ve never been into 3R I don’t have any A/C transformers (or for that matter, any three rail track), that doesn’t factor in to any decision.
I’m wide open for any suggestions about what to use—that’s the good news.
The bad news is that I’m dumb as a stump when it comes to having any knowledge of anything beyond good old DC track power. ( I have soaked up a little DCC knowledge over the years from listening to other people.)
My layout will be about 25’x10’, and a 5 car passenger train or a 13 or 14 car freight will probably be the heaviest load that any of these locomotives would ever haul.
Jeff C
