RC45's Slot Car Layout...

[RC45]

Well - in between trying to secure future contracts and generaly contribute to the world economy, I also find time to do constructive things - like hobbies...

I had an interest in slot cars, but the 'round and round as fast as you can go" is nto what appeals to me... so I went off and made a routed track, and decided to make it all digital controlled - I just figured it's the obvious thing to do...

Little did I know I am one of a handful of digital pioneers in this hobby... go figure.

Digital control systems have been around for model trains for over 10 years.

Anywhooo - here are some images (maybe now the Enzo video I posted will make sense... )

Some images of early construction...
























And some later ones...





And here is the traffic circle I have in the town center..!! And depending how you throw the car around, it will either keep tracking around the fountain, or if you let off will go straight and you are on your way














The simplicity of implimenting DCC for model railroad is what lends the equipment so easily to slot cars.

Each train (car) has a decoder - and you just program a unique address into the decoder (I use the number on the car) and dial that address up on the controller - and away you go.

Here you can see the addresses dialed into the controllers... #96 and #21


The #00 is the address that Digtrax lets you assign to an analog car - that is a way to test analog cars before you do the digital heart transplant...


This is a Z scale decoder in a MRRC Cobra



This is an HO scale decoder in a Ninco Xsara WRC.






And finally - the Digitrax control station.



Did I mention I have only been in this hobby 2 months...