Wednesday, November 2, 2022

October Construction

Wiring is progressing.   I have connected all the feeders to the buss for the staging tracks and two lift outs.  control panels for the lift out turnouts and junction are being wired and a 12-volt power supply for them is being ordered.  Five of the switch tenders from Micro Mark have been installed.  18 feet of flex track have been laid from the junction up the grade to the second town and 12 feet of flex track on the top loop have also been installed.  Feeder wires for them are also in place.  Also, the rest of the track for the junction has been installed.

Installing the switch tenders for the left outs was easy, but I will have to go under the layout to install all those for the junction area.  The image below has the track that is installed for the junction half highlighted.



evolution of a track plan

 While I am slowly working on the wiring for the main standard gauge layout, I started working on an HOn3 switching layout.   There have bee...