Hi. I have a dumb question. It will not be my last. So, with C-track, the 24088 has receptacles for the mobile station and transformer leads. I don't see any suck track item for K-track. So how do you hook up the power and digital control to k-track? Thanks.

Hello Dennis,

First you can use:

MARKLIN 2290 power feed track. Length 1/1 = 180 mm / 7-3/32“. 2 feeder wires.

(This track is used to connect the B= centre rail and O= outer rail wires from the mobile station. You will have to cut off the connectors and connect the bare wire to the push down connectors on the tracks or make a male connector to mate with the female connectors.)

Or you can solder wires to K track.

Regards,

Michel

Easy, take a red wire off the B tab on the back of your 24088, and a brown wire off the 0 tab. Connect those to your 2290 K track feeder piece. A bit string and chewing gum approach, but it will work.

The 60115 connection box was intended for use with a Mobile Station 1 and K track, but might be a bit hard to come by now.

I have a start set with the same connection and did exactly that to hook up to my own K-track layout, worked fine if a bit kludgy.

I didn't suggest this because it was unclear from your first post exactly what you have.

So just to confirm, you already have some C-track including the 24088 section and you have some K-track as well?

If so, just pop the cover off the bottom of the 24088 and you can see the PCB, but I suggest it would be cheaper, quicker and more reliable just to canabilise a 24088.

Cheers

Thanks Guys,

Yes, exactly correct. Picked up a digital starter train set a while back with C-track, a 60652 MS, and too small a power pack (which will quickly get replaced with a bigger transformer). Also have a fair amount of additional C-track. And yes, I also have a boat-load of K-track (plus a bunch of M, some of which even has the center rail). I agree that cannibalizing a 24088 is a good solution. Eventually, I'm sure whatever I end up building is going to include both C and K, so this may not be much of an issue. We'll see.

I'd love to post a few pictures of my layout -- if I actually had anything respectable set up. Right now I'm just throwing together something pretty basic so that a) the Harry Potter train can run around the X-mas decorations; b) I can start learning about the mysteries of digital; and c) I have a place to test and run my various locomotives as I convert them to digital. (I have several that were digital when I bought them and have just been sitting in their boxes until now, but several more old ones that I'm converting.) Not planning to start on a real layout for quite a while.

And on the subject of converting locomotives, I suppose this is going to be a "which is better: Ford or Chevy?" question, BUT do most folks use Marklin decoders, or other alternatives (e.g., ESU LokSound)?