To answer one question, if it were directed at me, not sure, I have a 20x20 room in which the majority of the floor is taken up by the layout. I have 5 locomotives attached to what has become 5 trains. I can only run 3 of the 5 at a time. The only issues I've seen with this layout are a problem that one engine has responding to 1 or 2 SMPH. Say i'm backing it up to hook to another set of cars, or even its set of cars, when I get down to 2 or ask it to back up at 1, it jerks a bit. But once I reach 3 it smoothly moves backward or forward. Only one of them does that. But to say I've experienced anymore problems with spontaneous starting or engine out of range or spontaneous runaway speeds, that stuff stopped when I ran the booster drops.
Drummer you mentioned not getting "warm". I was going to ask that when I got home from town, and I'm home from town. I found an all metal grounding buss at Lowes. Then it hit me, if I generate power to that metal rod, it will become an electrified metal rod. Good for my power output, bad for my body. How did you solve the electrocution problems?
Oh and to the person who emphatically stated, "NEVER!" use two TIU units on one track. Thanks. Appreciate the information and I understand completely. Had to ask, got my answer, now I know.
This is why we field questions like that on the forum. It's not to look stupid, it's to get someone who knows to tell you that's wrong so you won't do something stupid or that it is correct so you can do something right.
