04-11-2010, 01:44 PM
Fascinating stuff (if way over my head!) 
Just to say that many years ago I had a quite entensive O scale layout around the garden, using pure no-frills DC, and it ran fine after a quick clean and check for twigs, beetles, etc. on the tracks. But my brass handbuilt O scale locos had quite a bit of mass to help with current collection, so not sure of just how successful HO would be - multiple loco lash-ups would help of course. But windy days would preclude running, I think.
hock:
The higher voltage certainly does seem to be the way to go - I hope you go ahead with trials.
Just to say that many years ago I had a quite entensive O scale layout around the garden, using pure no-frills DC, and it ran fine after a quick clean and check for twigs, beetles, etc. on the tracks. But my brass handbuilt O scale locos had quite a bit of mass to help with current collection, so not sure of just how successful HO would be - multiple loco lash-ups would help of course. But windy days would preclude running, I think.
hock: The higher voltage certainly does seem to be the way to go - I hope you go ahead with trials.
Alan Curtis
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