GEC's Layout Progress

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Cab: That Silverliner IV model looks very good. Do you plan on installing working headlights and red marker lights. I am struggling with the idea of installing headlights in one car and red markers in the other and polarizing the set.

If you're running on DCC, You can just light it all, you only need a headlight function and two spare auxiliary wires (for the marker lights on each end). you can program the markers to be on or off, and only be on depending on the direction the model is running. I think i vaguely remember you saying you ran with your pans, and didn't run with DCC (i could be wrong), in that case, i think you should still light it all anyway, but not worry about connecting all the lights until you come up with a good scheme. That way, you can get it all done at once and worry about turning the lights on later.

Still, even if you were running DC, there isn't a circuit you can build that would turn off the lights? You could just wire the makers to the "rear" headlight of a directional lighting circuit (and vice versa), and you'd be fine. You could probably even put a switch in the car to make it so that one end is "off" when that end is coupled to another MU.


I found some good small red LEDs by miniatronics, but i think fiber-optics will also work. I'm going to play with that in my Arrow III cars before i use it on any of my other models. I'm told the Miniatronics "yellow-glo" LEDs best represent the headlights on the GE cars, but its up to you.