DCC Projects & Applications

Model Railroader magazine’s “DCC Corner” takes the reader through a series of DCC projects, including setting up a DCC layout, decoder installation, lighting effects, sound effects, layout wiring projects, advanced decoder programming, and tips and ideas for advanced DCC projects. For beginners and experts alike, this book includes tips, techniques, and photographic instruction. Also includes a glossary and a list of important considerations for choosing a DCC system.

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Author: Mike Polsgrove
Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 88 pages; 150 color photos; 30 illustrations; ISBN: 9780890246450

Mike Polsgrove is Model Railroader’s magazine’s “DCC Corner” columnist. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1982 and worked as the motive power electrical engineer for both the Grand Trunk Western RR and the Chicago & North Western. He is currently constructing on HO scale layout depicting the Soo Line’s Third Subdivision of the Eastern Division, circa 1963.

Chapter One
Welcome to Digital
Command Control...............4
Chapter Two
Setting up a DCC layout......9
Chapter Three
Wiring tricks...................27
Chapter Four
Installing decoders..........39
Chapter Five
Programming decoders.....53
Chapter Six
Lighting..........................63
Chapter Seven
Sound and DCC................ 73
Chapter Eight
Just the beginning...........89