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  • November 1, 2006 at 3:21 pm #93
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    Pete the porter. Crap name – I thought it was good at the time. Never mind!

    Can anyone help me please. I could do with a way of counting the number of times an engine passes a control. I would like to be able to make say 6 shunting movements after which a set of points can be activated so that the wagons formed into a train can be taken away from the shunting area. I have tried doing this by timing the events but this does not seem to be accurate enough.

    I’m a new member and I do have a couple of layouts which I would like to share but I don’t have a web site up and running at the moment but hopefully I will get round to it. Regards to all.

    November 1, 2006 at 3:46 pm #1143
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    Hi Pete the Porter

    Yes this can be done with a control track. See link about this. Chris and Don use this type of control I am new at using it but it works really well I can send you examples of what I have done if you want. I would like a look at your layouts I like to see what other people get up to 😆 My email addy is

    dayle.dave@virgin.net

    http://brainbombers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=357&start=0

    Chris coal zips show good examples of this type of control system. Which are on the pages the link opens.

    Thanks Dave

    November 1, 2006 at 5:32 pm #1144
    Anonymous
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    I have a shunting example that uses a control track – with a second control track acting as a loop counter. I don’t have anywhere to post it, email me and i’ll send it to ya.

    November 2, 2006 at 7:57 am #1145
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    Hi Pete and Daveand jdgoss1,

    The controler tracks can be hidden in the sunting yard,as i did.

    Hi Dave your big terminus is really big and crazy a little bit.

    Good work 8) :) I´l do the same for digifans.

    What do you mean about my third shunting demo? where are the controler tracks?

    i hope that helps.

    i have the protocoals from chris. if you want you can study that.

    😉

    November 17, 2006 at 7:02 pm #1146
    Anonymous
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    Many thanks for your help.

    I have uploaded a layout to Brainbombers which makes use of a shunting operation based on the information you have provided. The layout also contains main up and down lines and station which are kept busy from a Fiddle Yard at the rear of the layout.

    November 17, 2006 at 7:34 pm #1147
    Anonymous
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    Cool when it’s on i’ll dload it.

    Thanks Dave

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