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Good (late) Afternoon! Whew - I am burned! But today marks a leap forward in the construction of my loayout! While I was w*rking on my backdrop, brushing on various shades of blue, my friend called. Mr. Murphy still resides here, as I had my hands all covered with paint and Petra was still in the bathroom, when the phone rang. Well, I called him back and he told he ´d be over early afternoon with his soldering gun! Oh joy, oh rapture! Soldering the feeder wires to the rail was done in no time at all, installing the terminal strips and connecting the wires to them did not take much longer. Installing the BluPoint switch controller was a little bit tedious, but after a while that was done as well. A little clean up, and here we were, ready for a test run. Hooked up the powerpack - nothing - only the short circuit detector tripped. Checked all the wires - they were OK, not mixed up. After a few minutes of debating what to do, I have noticed, that we had forgotten to gap the rails. No big deal, and when that was done came the next test. Our faces were glowing in anticipation, but - nothing than the old short! Disconnected the two section from the first one, and the first one was OK. Connected them back - short. Ckecked the wiring of the wye - seemed to be OK. As we were just about to give up and try it another day, I found out that my friend had installed feeders at a place the should not have gone. After a friendly argument about the logic of wiring Peco Electrofrog switches, I could persuade him to unhook those feeder and - voila! - everything was right. I can now officially announce, that on the day of June 1st in the year 2014 A.C., the first train movement was conducted on the right of way of the keg Harbor R.R. & Nav. Co. Loco #1, a Forney 2-4-4, made her maiden run on the tracks of said railroad, staying safely on the tracks. An official celebration will be held in due course, when the backdrop is finished! <img src="http://www.seenachtfest.de/bilder/titelbilder/titel-feuerwerk.jpg" alt=" " /> I am a happy camper, being back in business of running a train over my layout!
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