Haha, thank you! -Cam

Thanks for the comment! I actually uploaded 4 short layout railfanning videos last night that will eventually be a part of a larger operations video. -Cam

Thanks, Brian! It really is crazy that there are off-the-shelf solutions for any of this sort of stuff. -Cam

Haha thanks for the kind words! I really love the layout, and you've got some great equipment. What is your room size? Just subscribed. -Cam

@@railfan220 thanks for the sub man. My room is 33’x24’ but it’s a bit awkward because the stairs are in the middle of the room and there’s a laundry room that takes 1/4 of the room roughly. Thanks again!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed. -Cam

Thanks, John! I'm glad this is all the wiring I had to do...can't imagine what the Fall River Division's wire budget was. -Cam

Glad this is useful information for you! -Cam

Thank you! Glad you like it. -Cam

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed. Those are very kind words, Chuck. -Cam

Oh man, I totally underestimated how much wiring it takes. I probably took like 4 trips to the hardware store thinking each one would be my last. That's also where a lot of the cost is, and I wasn't expecting that. -Cam

@@railfan220 lol yeap.. I kept getting lengths of 50' with multiple trips. The guys at the store kept asking me as I walked in the door.. "How much this time?" At the end I just told them to give me the full industrial roll, can get expensive. But end result will be worth it. I'm also doing eventually an old manual switch panel. Arty

Good to hear! I definitely considered using other bits and pieces, but given that this was my first attempt, I thought the compatibility of the Digitrax components with my Digitrax command system would be pretty fool-proof. -Cam

Thanks, John! I'm right there with you. This was both a rewarding and very un-fun task. It took a lot of time and money, and in a way I think it did it just to prove to myself that I could. And while the signals are cool, I'm not sure I really want to mess with them for future layouts. -Cam

Haha thank you! It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense until you start plugging stuff together. Then you're almost shocked that anything even works. -Cam

Seems difficult, sorta easy honestly lol

@@AbelG8781 I want to do this. Not sure where to start?

@@Vman7757 layout, isolate tracks, install detectors, get JMRI or some sort of program to control CTC, wire it up, good to go.

@@AbelG8781 LOL. Ha ha ha. I am at to point of what should I buy. I have a digitrax system. But looking at TCS "Train Control Systems" as a possibility. I'm also considering LCC "Layout Command Control" It's almost paralyzing on what I want to do.

Well, I "conveniently" killed my last computer, so I have to reinstall JMRI/CATS on my new one and get it all hooked up. I'll try to take the time to document how to do that. The only reason I wasn't planning on sharing all of that info is because I honestly forgot how to. But now I have no choice it would seem, haha. Thanks for the comment! -Cam

Haha true, you can't screw up what you haven't started. I definitely was trying to find ways to save on detection blocks and was hoping to combine turnout detection with an adjacent block...but I did not find any shortcuts. Anyway, I honestly forget all the reasons I chose CATS, but I think mainly that it has appearance defaults that resemble modern CTC screens. I almost remember messing around with Panel Pro and just having less luck getting it to look the way I wanted. Other than that, I think they're probably pretty similar to set up the sensors and logic and all of that. -Cam

@@railfan220 I have fought for longer than I should with Panel Pro, maybe I need to give CATS a try. I dislike the panel editor in JMRI. Looks like I need more block detection devices, or I just need to remove block detection from areas that really do not need it.

Correct! No screws, and they've stayed up. -Cam

Hi, Neil. Yes, I have a Digitrax DCS100 as my command station and DB150 booster, each supplying 5 amps of power. -Cam