Best place to put powered bogies?

[The Tram Man]

What is the best place to put the powered bogies in a two car set of EFE cars?

I intend to buy atleast one set when i visit London and run them on club layouts on shows. But these modular layouts always have some "dead" spots, meaning they don't have any current. And as some of these can be relatively long, i was thinking of putting one powered bogie in each cars outer end and somehow linking them together using a DCC decoder. In addition to bridging the problem with the dead spots, i was hoping this solution would give me the best possibility to run them in both directions. Hopefully without one car pushing the other of the track.

But is there a better solution? I don't want to make any large modifications to the outside of the train.

[metman]

I would recommend placing both bogies on one car and linking it together. You can then stick a load of weights in that car for maximum traction. If you place a motor at the end if each train they must be linked by a bus line otherwise the one motor will not push or pull the train when the other loses power. I learnt that the hard way!

It is best to get motor bogies online. They are going up in price all the time sadly.

My advice is this:

1 tenshodo - 2 cars
1 black beetle - 3 cars
1 endo - 3 tube cars

If using DCC multiple tenshodo spuds have created problems so I'm told.

Online retailers include:
Branchlines
DC kits
Mainly trains - tenshodo only

Hope this helps

[The Tram Man]

That was sort of what i was thinking of doing, linking my two powered bogies together, regardless of what car they are in. As i mentioned, the dead spots can be relatively long, some are actually one car length long (some even a bit longer). That's why i thought of putting them one bogie per car. However my experience with wiring is nonexistent, so i thought it best to ask.

If the Tenshodo bogies have problems with DCC, what manufacturer would you recommend?

[metman]

I don't use DCC but I'm told that if it is a two or three car set you want to power an endo bogie is very good.

How come you have such long gaps? Make sure that you are able to feed the power to the extreme ends of the boards. This is important I think for DCC. Use a bus line or equivalent below the board if you can. I'm such others on here will be able to help more. I'm a bit of a dinosaur with this sort of thing I'm afraid!

[The Tram Man]

Is that with or without DCC?

I don't know, i don't own any of the modules. I can't say i'm very pleased with the power supply they use either as it can very easily be kicked loose by accident.