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One of the great things about DCC is the ability to totally auto-
mate this reverse switching. Automation is not as simple as just
hooking a module up to the reversing loop as [1] would imply.
Like so many things in model railroading, a bit of planning can
go a long way.
Do I have a reverse section?
Looking at a loop [1], it is pretty obvious that it is a reversing
section. However, as track designs get more complex, it is easy
to bury reversing sections inside the layout and not realize
they exist.
As I mentioned previously, a crossover on a dog-bone style
layout is a reversing section, but it is not immediately obvious.
If you look closely at the crossover [4a], it doesn’t seem to be
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