I would like to insert a Bachmann turnout into a bend that needs to be a 22" radius curve.  I know a #5 turnout matches up well with an 18" Radius.  Does anyone know what turnout number equates to a 22" radius?

Bachmann makes a very small DC Cable Car, Product Code: 60532, and I was wondering if anyone has tried to convert this to DCC yet.  Don't know if the motor is or can be isolated and if there is even a decoder small enough to fit and be somewhat hidden, perhaps one that would fit in N scale.

I am just starting to put together a medium size layout, not huge, but has a number of turns and an overpass.  I installed a re-railer at each point where the train would come out of a bend.  Why is it that not a single one of the darn Bachmann re-railers will put a car, engine or tender back on the track?  I thought that was what they were suppose to do!  My train can do 2 laps going over 7 re-railers per lap and not fix the problem once.  This is fairly consistant (not the de-railing, but when it does happen, the re-railing).

I could see it if it happened at one re-railer every time and the others worked, but this happens at all of them pretty much all the time.  Half of the time the train is coming out of a turn, and the other half just before entering a turn.  Doesn't matter, same results.  Not running fast either, in fact, pretty darn slow.

These were not cheap, and I feel like I kind of got shafted by Bachmann.

I have 3 Erie Lackawanna diesel units, one is an A unit with sound, on is a B unit with sound and the third is an A unit without sound.  I am trying to make a consist from the A unit without sound and the B unit with sound.  The A unit is traveling faster than the B unit to the point where the A unit is growling slightly like a laboring motor.  The A and B units (both with sound cards) seem to match each other's speed almost perfectly and do not produce this noise.  If I watch carefully at the couplers, the A and B units that have sound pull evenly when starting out. When the A unit without sound and the B unit with sound start out together, there is a sharp snapping tug on the B unit by the A unit.

Does a sound card affect the engines voltage to the point where I will see this much difference in torque or is it something else.

I am running with a Bachmann Dynamis controller and no other loads on the layout.

I'm sorry, I read too much and sometimes it confuses me more than helping me.  But, everything I have read regarding DCC control and track says to provide power to every track section or at least every 3 feet of track.  Also, they all seem to say you need to solder all of your track connections together.  I do have a small pencil tip type soldering tool, but if I heat the rail and connector hot enough to solder them together, I'm sort of afraid of melting the plastic ties/roadbed.

I am using Nickel-Silver track sections.  Do they really need to be soldered, and how often do I really need to have a power connection?  What about using Dielectric grease at each rail coupler connection instead of soldering. 

I am new to model railroading, and it is far different than when I was a youngster.  I purchased an Erie Lackawanna diesel engine (64603) model, FA2, and now have learned about FA2 with sound.  If I purchase the same engine equipped with DCC and Sound, can I run one of them in reverse to have a dual engine setup using two "A" engines?