I know somewhere on this board there was an explanation of what the E-Z Track standard switch was equivalent to - but I searched and could not find it.  I know the straight section is equivalent to a 9 inch straight piece, and the curve is equivalent to an 18" radius curve.

From what I can tell - it Looks like if you took a 9" straight piece, and 1 3/8" up from the end of that you placed an 18" 30 degree curve piece, you would have the equivalent.   But I remember reading someone who had a different explanation.

My reason for asking is because I'm trying to model the E-Z Track pieces in XTrkCad, and my results aren't really lining up with real life just yet!   

(Using HO gauge)

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Actually, I think maybe I have it correct now.  A little tweaking and it now looks good.  So maybe a different question - does anyone have an E-Z Track parameters file for XTrkCad?  I haven't been able to locate one, just questions looking for one.

Thanks!

I grew up in the 70's with a Tyco HO train set, and this Christmas Santa Claus brought my son a Bachmann starter set to get him started in trains.

But we have recently upgraded to DCC (so Dad can play too!  ) and we're having a problem.  I bought two Bachmann DCC locos (models 60147 and 60701) and a Digitrax Zephyr.  But I cannot get the Zephyr to change Anything in the locos - the first thing I tried to do was change the address of one of the locos, and no matter what I tried I kept getting the "d nd" error meaning an open circuit exists somewhere.  After an hour of running several permutations of programming track, normal track, 2-digit addressing, 4-digit addressing, etc, One of the locos was able to change its address but I received no visual confirmation that it had happened.

I have not been able to change the other loco's address, nor change the first loco to any Other number.  Reading and Writing CV's be it on the main line or programming track also returns the same error.  The Only thing I've been able to do was change one locos address once (which actually worked out because at least we can now run two trains).

Other than being unable to read and write values to the locos, everything else seems to be working.  My long-winded explanation comes down to really just one question.  I'm 99% sure I have a defective Digitrax Zephyr, but does anyone here know if the problem Could be with my Bachmann locos?  If only one loco had a problem, I would be more inclined to think that.  But from what I can tell, there should not be any problem reading and writing to these locos with the Digitrax Zephyr system, correct?

Thanks for your time!