Hi,
I've got a couple of loco models that have live overhead traction wiring support through their pantographs and one question which I've raised in forums at my site in these two threads:
I haven't come across a standard for this, but someone who's more savvy with the NMRA standards may well know what the answer is.
Failing that, I will ask the folks on the NMRA DCC working group list since I'm still a member of that list.
With the Modelling the Railways of NSW convention coming up, I'm hoping to fathom out what's going on with electric loco and passenger train models. I still have one of Ian Storrie's excellent 86 class kits (unfinished), but wouldn't it be fantastic to have high-quality brass models of the 85 and 86 class NSW electric locos, and perhaps even of the Victorian E-class locos, since that's an ideal medium for modelling electric locomotives in HO scale.
Thanks if you can provide a definitive answer to the question. Feel free to comment in the forums at my site too if you'd like to. I'll transfer any information from here to there otherwise.
Regards,
Craig.