When does an obstical become a solution?!!!

[Red Horse]

I had spent much time wiering the lights too all my buildings and when I was done I realized I had missed a few army qwanset huts and since it is a mobile layout and the buildings are semi permanant when locked down I needed a way of getting power to these huts without pulling the huts apart again so after thinking a while I realized that when I was doing the reasearch for wiering my telephone poles from the first layout I recalled there was a rather thick line that is suspended from a steel cable, the beefy wire cluster wrapped in black rubber is on a lot of poles, so with this in mind I actually strung the real 12volt wire from a fake steel cable along my phone lines and not only does it look real enough and blends rather nicely they are actually feeding 12volts of power to 2 in series lights for my buildings, I'm in the process now of adding more lights using the same routing methiod,.

So what at first looked like a problem turned out to be another way of lighting my layout the soloution was, use the poles for real power...LOL!

I love the madness that is model rail roading !

Happy Rails,

Jess Red Horse.

[jackn2mpu]

Love that idea, and with thin enough wire (like 26 ga magnet wire) it'll be in scale, at least for HO. Does this mean if you ever model traction or something like the Northeast Corridor you'll have working overhead wiring?