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Late in 1995 I decided to give my eldest son an electric train set for christmas, of course from Märklin since I myself started with Märklin then. On this occasion I roused my old equipment from its long sleep and had to inform myself about the development during the past two decades. Much to my delight (only subdued by the charged prices) it was now feasible what was a daydream in my childhood and what seemed unrealisable even with all kinds of tricky circuits and also for the non-existence of a PC: a genuine multi-train control making it possible to control several locos independently. First I studied the technical basics by achieving the available information on the customary way in Germany. With this in mind I could decide not to pay the somewhat high Märklin prices but to assemble the control by myself. The already a little aged EDITS project of the electronics journal Elektor suited well and I could simultaneously add some special features. I have to admit that not least for..

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