Model Railroading > new building advice

I am looking at building a new pole style building for my trains. I want to run wireless digitrax throttles. Should I stay away from interior steel on the walls and ceiling? Please offer any other building advice.

Eng.Shadetree

Posted from Android

Steel lining should be no problem since all your control stuff will be inside. If you put a steel divider across the room or steel dividers you may have problems.

Posted from Windows Phone OS 7

You should stay completely away from Digitrax no
matter where you plan to build a model railroad.
Depending on the size of your layout NCE and
Easy DCC will give much better results.cf7

Such a shame you continue to spread your hate. Will it ever end? I have had Digitrax wireless for years and it works flawlessy.

Bruce

PS - and you forget that at one time NCE had mass issues with their wireless....

cf7 Wrote:
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> You should stay completely away from Digitrax no
> matter where you plan to build a model railroad.
> Depending on the size of your layout NCE and
> Easy DCC will give much better results.cf7

Exterior steel will not cause any interior DCC radio problems. It may cause lack of wifi or celluar phone connections. My 32 x 80 barn was built with wood T-111 siding some 23 years ago. A few years back I had it resided with steel and had no NCE radio issues. I also have a tern metal roof on the building. I would not use steel as divider walls inside the building as they may cause you radio problems. ----- Ken McCorry

Since our club layout has nearly a thousand square feet of RR
under our mountain scenery, we added another repeater under
the scenery.

Larry

Another satisfied Digitrax user

Different advice: put in water and a bathroom. I am woking on a guys layout in a beautiful building and it has neither of the most important items. He regrets his mistake.

santafedan Wrote:
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> Different advice: put in water and a bathroom. I
> am woking on a guys layout in a beautiful building
> and it has neither of the most important items.
> He regrets his mistake.

Never to late to add a water closet to an outside corner of the building, some plumbing and away you go.

brfriedm Wrote:
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> Such a shame you continue to spread your hate.
> Will it ever end? I have had Digitrax wireless for
> years and it works flawlessy.
>
> Bruce
>
> PS - and you forget that at one time NCE had mass
> issues with their wireless....

First of all if you don't like what I write about a product,
DON'T READ IT!!!! Nobody is forcing you to read anything up here.
Second, my comments about products are based on past experience
with the product, either by selling it, buying it and having
problems that even the product in question's customer support have
no idea how to fix! When you pay good money for something you
expect it to perform as it is advertised. I have used NCE for years
without any problems and I have used Easy DCC on several layouts
that also perform great. Plus they both have outstanding Customer
Service that's only a phone call away that can talk you through
any problem you may encounter.
cf7