Francis-Dublin Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 If I change to DCC/Digital, will I be able to store trains in a long siding so only one train moves at a time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What About The Bee Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 Yes, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
What About The Bee Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 The deeper answer is that all locomotives can be live on track, all the time. You do not need to isolate tracks, like DC. Locomotives only move when you command them to do so, by address 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog RJ Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 Yoh can stop a train anywhere and run any other train. Dcc controls trains individually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntpntpntp Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 (edited) There's an old saying: with DC you drive the track, with DCC you drive the loco. What that means is with DC you're applying power to the track and whatever loco(s) is/are sitting on it will move accordingly, all in the same direction. To "park" a loco you have to isolate that section of track, be that with an on/off switch or by changing the points against the siding. With DCC you're controlling the loco via commands to its decoder. The track is live all the time. The loco moves, displays lights, plays sounds etc. as you send commands to it from the DCC system. Another loco sitting on the same track won't move unless you tell it to. It's possible to have two locos run in opposite directions on the same track, resulting in a spectacular crash so most DCC systems have an emergency stop button! One thing which catches out some folk when they first move from DC to DCC is direction of travel. With DC if you run a loco forwards then pick it up and turn it round it will run backwards in the same direction it was going before. You're controlling movement by the power in the track. With DCC if you run the loco forwards then pick it up and turn it round it will still run forwards and will set off in the other direction. You're controlling the loco and forwards is always relative to front of the loco. Easy with steam locos but with diesel and electrics sometimes it's more difficult to know which is the front. Fortunately you can use the headlights as an indicator of which way it's going to go 🙂 Edited August 10 by ntpntpntp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModelerXYZ Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 Yes. On mine I have several in a line and they only move one at a time. On DC a loco moves if it has power. on DCC it needs to be commanded to move. XYZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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