OPENLCB

OpenLCB is a messaging system that products can use to help you control your model railroad in a simple manner, with less wiring. It is a parallel system to the train control system, whether that is DC or DCC. Although it is useful on small layouts, it is powerful enough to control very large layouts, such as those in museums or built by modular clubs... Although finished implementations aren't available yet, OpenLCB is designed to connect with existing systems like LocoNet, XpressNet, C/MRI, DCC, etc. For example, an OpenLCB installation can connect to a pre-existing DCC system using a "bridge" so that DCC accessory decoder operations (turnout commands) control OpenLCB nodes... Great care has been taken to design OpenLCB so that it has lots of room to grow. It's intended to work for the very largest modular layouts, and also to grow with the next 25 years of model railroading. The twenty-year history of DCC provides lots of examples of how creative model railroaders can think of new..

Also known as: OpenLCB Group, The OpenLCB Group