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Ken Z:
My layout travels through the whole basement.  My DCC radio controls occasionally seem to get lost when the basement is really full of people and I am trying to communicate to the other side of the basement.  Yesterday with the RailPro I did not see that happen however i would like to do more testing.  I am having a RailPro controller installed into a brass RS-11, I will see how it works.  Thanks for the discussion about how control of the locomotives gets consisted. 
About the horn, if I run the consist around the train and head back the second unit would sound the horn.  Well if that if the only drawback, I can live with it. 
I am building my RailPro fleet and we have another RAilPro user here in town so we will be able to push the envelope more. 
For my guests, this was the first live and in person opportunity to see RailPro in action.  They had seen you tube however I think waking around with the HC-2 and a train showed them how impressive the system is. 

Ken Zieska

TwinStar:
Ken:

How many PWR-56's do you have scattered around the layout?

KPack:
Ken, when you run the consist around a train you should break the consist and remake it with the new lead unit.  That way the new lead unit plays the horn correctly and the lights as well.

That is how the prototype does it.  My hometown is the last stop for the local, and when they finish their switching they run around the train and the previously following locomotive now becomes the lead.  The crew now occupies the new lead unit and the train is now identified by the new locomotive (ie the crew previously communicated with dispatch as "BNSF 1668" but now communicate as "BNSF 1836"). 

Load sharing will work better if you switch the lead after you run around.  Don't forget that load sharing is all based on what the "lead" locomotive detects (whatever locomotive you have set as lead).  Therefore when pulling a train you always want the locomotive in front of everything to be the lead in the MU on the controller.

-Kevin

Ken Z:
Kevin, Thus is great information.  I am going to cut and paste this into a page I can keep with my notes so I can be sure to explain it correctly when I have visitors.  These would be good discusion pages to have in a file here for people to learn the neat details that are available with RailPro.

ken

Ken Z:
for the question about the PWR being scattered around the basement.  My layout is full Digitrax's.  Divided into power blocks with a good bus wire system.  While I might see migrating away from it to the straight RailPro power supply I have all my frogs powered by Tam Valley frog juicers and I have a Tam Valley reversing module on my wye.  I will need to find out if there would be an issue.  It is not a big issue as i have a number of DCC locomotives that I will need to change out and everything is running just great now.  I don't see I am likely to add more DCC locomotives.

Ken Z.

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