Last Updated: 3 September 2022
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Large Scale
Track
coming soon…
There’s three things you need to know and/or decide on when it comes to track:
- Rail Height (a.k.a. “code”)
- Material (depending on indoor use vs outdoor use, materials include: brass, stainless steel, aluminium, …)
- Geometry (the radius/diameter of the curves and switches you will use and/or the available space allows)
Train Control
Train Control Systems – An Introduction
Analog / DC
- LGB “EPL” Components Overview & Alternatives
- Electric Switch Control Analog
- Signal Control Analog
- Isolated Track Blocks Analog
- Signal Blocks Analog
- Reversing Loops Analog
- Advanced LGB “EPL” Circuits
Digital / DCC Systems
- ESU “ECoS” Digital System
- Märklin “CS3” Digital System
- Massoth “DiMAX” Digital System
- PIKO G Digital System
- Roco Z21 Digital System
- Uhlenbrock “Intellibox”
- ZIMO “MX10”
Wireless Digital / DCC Systems
- Aristo-Craft / Crest Electronics / Revo Electronics “Revolution Train Engineer DCC”
- CVP “AirWire”
- Tam Valley Depot “Dead Rail System”
- QSI/NCE “G-Wire”
Digital / DCC Decoders & Sound Decoders
- Dietz
- Digitrax
- ESU “LokPilot” & “LokSound”
- Märklin “mfx”
- Massoth “eMOTION”
- PIKO
- QSI
- Uhlenbrock
- ZIMO
Third Party DCC Sound Providers
- Bremoha (external link) – for ZIMO [Out of Business since November 2021]
- Heinz Dappen (external link) – for ZIMO – Euro and US sound projects
- LeoSoundLab (external link) – for ESU LokSound – mainly Euro standard gauge for smaller scales)
- Schwoboda (external link) – for ESU LokSound – Euro HSB narrow gauge
Smoke Units
- ESU Pulsed Smoke Units
- Massoth Pulsed Smoke Units
RC
-
Aristo-Craft / Crest Electronics / Revo Electronics “Revolution Train Engineer”
- PIKO R/C
Legacy Systems
- Digital – Proprietary – LGB “MTS” / “MZS” (DE)
- Digital – Wireless DCC – Massoth DRC 300
- RC – Train Line “Easy Train Control”
- RC – Train Line “WLAN”
Wiring
Rolling Stock
Couplers
- Coupler Types
- Automatic Couplers
- Kadee Couplers
Product Lines
- Aristo-Craft <> Polk’s GeneratioNeXt <> Bachmann
- KISS Modellbahnen <> Kiss Modellbahn Service <> Fine Models Kiss Modellbahnen Deutschland <> Kiss Modellbahnen Schweiz
- LGB “High End”
- PIKO “Mainline Series” <> MDC 1:32
Product Info
Other