Hello everyone! Just joined here and getting back into model railroading. Looking forward to participating in the discussions on this forum.
I'm designing a back-and-forth sequence as follows: Train begins on siding, proceeds through a switch onto a section of the main line, which includes a grade, then finishes by going through another switch and dead-ending onto a siding. The main-line trains will travel up this same grade, so I'm planning to isolate the grade as a block and wire a dedicated throttle (with the reproduction ZW master throttle setting) so that I have the ability to set a slightly higher voltage going up the grade (so the mainline maintains speed).
I've managed to workout a conventional, display-style wiring scheme with some Dallee products (in conventional mode). As I mentioned, the mainline trains will always travel up the grade, but the back-and-forth train will go both up and down the grade and reverse after a short neutral on the sidings described above.
Here's my question: Would a Lionel engine with Legacy speed control (in conventional mode) maintain the same speed when entering the grade block (which has a higher throttle setting)? Or will there be a spike? Any other ideas on ways to maintain the back-and-forth speed with this setup?
Thanks for your thoughts and ideas. Let me know if you need any more details.
