I finally made it to the Barnesville passenger station today:
Michael
The Breitenbach - Rosenheim Railroad V3
I added code 40 guardrails to the bridge track:
Michael, you're brave, placing crossovers under bridges.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain Michael, you're brave, placing crossovers under bridges. Rich
Yes, I'm brave, I'm still married after 37 years !
I finished laying the passenger station track:
I made it into the Barnesville freight yard:
I started to lay track at the Barnesville yard today:
Should I keep posting these updates? For the next two or three weeks all I will be doing is laying track at Barnesville...
Here's today's progress:
I would miss them. But you're the one doing all the work.
tedtedderson I would miss them. But you're the one doing all the work.
It's not about the work, I just don't want to post incremental updates if that's too boring. I'm having lots of fun anyway !
I look forward to your updates. They motivate me to get off my butt and work on my layout. Please keep up the good work.
I definitely enjoy seeing the updates regularly.
michaelrose55 It's not about the work, I just don't want to post incremental updates if that's too boring. I'm having lots of fun anyway !
Keep the posts coming. I enjoy following your progress even though I'm envious of the beautiful layout you're building .
Joe
You asked for this so here it comes... more track at Barnesville:
Michael:
I agree with what the others have said. Please keep posting your daily updates.
When you get to the stage where you are doing all the wiring I hope you will post in detail as well. As you might be aware, I'm involved in the construction of a new club layout so I want to see as many methods of construction as I can, and I have an admitted lack of detailed knowledge and experience with wiring methods.
Thanks,
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Dave,
I'm not the best when it comes to wiring...
And more track again:
michaelrose55I'm not the best when it comes to wiring...
I suspect that you are being too modest.
hon30critter michaelrose55 I'm not the best when it comes to wiring... I suspect that you are being too modest. Dave
michaelrose55 I'm not the best when it comes to wiring...
No, just honest...
Again, more track at Barnesville:
What are you going to use to control the turnouts at Barnesville?
JoeinPA Michael What are you going to use to control the turnouts at Barnesville? Joe
Good question. In the end I want to be able to run the layout automated to some degree. That means using decoders for the switch machines. Switch machines will be tortoises because I have a lot of them.
I had an important meeting this afternoon so there wasn't as much time as usual but still a little bit of track was laid:
A little, he says, as the yard doubles in size
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Michael, remind me, how are you planning to operate all those turnouts?
richhotrain Michael, remind me, how are you planning to operate all those turnouts? Rich
Hey Michael-
In addition to Rich's question . . .
There appears to be 14 or 15 tracks in this yard. I can easily imagine 20 or 30 engines idling on warm standby. How do you plan to power the tracks? What size buss? How many busses? How many and spacing of feeders?
Robert
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Rich,
I'm using tortoise switch machines and they will be DCC controlled so I can run trains automatically. What kind of manual control I will have I haven't decided yet (toggle switches, pushbuttons, something else?).
ROBERT PETRICK Hey Michael- In addition to Rich's question . . . There appears to be 14 or 15 tracks in this yard. I can easily imagine 20 or 30 engines idling on warm standby. How do you plan to power the tracks? What size buss? How many busses? How many and spacing of feeders? Robert
Robert,
I'm using AWG 14 as bus wire for the layout. N scale locomotives don't draw that much compared to H0 so that's good enough. Every yard or station on the layout is a power district with it's own booster.
As to feeder wires I typically feed at least every second piece of track which in the past has always worked very well for me.
I made a little bit of progress again at Barnesville: