My experience with a programming track in OO and an ECoS is that it needs to be kept really clean to ensure contact is maintained at all times. On some models I have only found it possible to program them correctly when the tender is attached giving me another 4 sets of pickups!. I do have a rolling road as well and my plan is to integrate it into the MPD at the end of a length of track which will also be the programming track but I will make it switchable although if I remember correctly, the ECoS programming output switches to the "main" when you are not in programming mode.
I will also include a switch to allow me to feed DC to the rolling road for running in locos before converting them. Bachmann recommend this for almost all their OO scale models. I don't know if that's the case for N.
David
I will also include a switch to allow me to feed DC to the rolling road for running in locos before converting them. Bachmann recommend this for almost all their OO scale models. I don't know if that's the case for N.
David