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Ah fellows, wait 'til you see this when it is wired and running.  It is a layout constructed in the early 1960s and entirely hand laid track....hand tooled and filed/soldered frogs and spiked down double slip switches.  Original wiring is cloth covered house hold wiring and lighter materials....all modular, saved by the son of the father who was a locomotive engineer on the steam engines of the PGE here in British Columbia.  This is going to be a bit hit on Facebook.  Yesterday a gang of us connected all the modular sections together for the first time in about 40 years. All the locos to be run on it are brass from the 1950's...still immaculate. I guess I could have left the term bus wire out of the post.  We are looking at redoing layout wire to all the blocks and so forth.  It is one common ground and another wire to the opposite rail in about 20 blocks. Thanks for all the input. I will pass it on.
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