Der- I like the layout design.
DER - I think BO Cyl. Would be able to comment on the operation. I am not qualified to answer that question. If you don't get an answer here trying posting in the forum. BUT let me warn you. Have a thick skin. They are a TOUGH and sometimes mean bunch !
BoC:
JohnDer: I don't see any snafu's here but the question I have is your DCC programming track...I think having it off one of the sidings might work better?
As for business of the thing...just try some of the trackage that Owen Sound had back in the steamdays. The lines were so cramped in that the engineers would have to have to move people's 4 wheel jobbies to get in and around some of the back alleys.
I’ve revamped the plan and landscape a bit, and now added an industry building which I will clone and play about with. It’s too close to dinner time here to attempt to post pics. Later.
I googled leg strengthening exercises for elderly, the elderly google added. And I’m now doing 3 exercises daily.
"There are always alternatives, Captain" - Spock.
Afternoon folks!
Chloe, a Good hot cup of decaf would be really nice right now...
I turned on the computer this morning to find I had no new emails in the inbox. I took that to be something wrong and it was. Somebody had again got into my email account and set the messgaes to be forwarded to another email and deleted. I changed it back and then clicked on my spam box at Roadrunner and 175 messages in there from EvilBay since late December to now! Hmmmmmm.... Seems someone is using my eBay account to sell some healthfood drink and run up a bill...... I have spent most of the day trying to delete my eBay account, delete my PayPal account (Successful with that at least), and change all my information/passwords, etc. at Roadrunner for my email (successful there as well). I am keeping a running log of everything I did and when with this.
Galaxy, glad you feel a bit better. Still don't hesitate to go to the ER if you relapse!
Still waiting on a package that should be arriving soon...
Catch you all later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Good Evening
Had a quiet day at home with Audrey and our new fellow...ooohh who is now up here schmoozing along purring away. We have a very happy cat here.
Got a few things placed on my layout to see how they will look when done here. Need more "for sale" signs I'ma guessin'
Got a nice scratchy throat tonight..too dry in here methinks. So I am doing a slow cooked version of Mattie's Doomsday Chili to knock whatever this is down...this chili is done with cubed beef instead of ground...and low salt as everything is done from scratch. See? Even my meals get scratcbuilt...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Evening Dinners
Flo, Please
Lots of running today. Payed some bills and bought some food.
Made It To K-10 Trains. As some of you may have seen on the main page I could not get the shell off of the B&O Atlas GP-38 I bought from K-10. After finding out it was made in 2001 I wanted to lube the engine before I run it. Took Larry and Dave 15 minutes to get the darn shell off! So it was not just me.
Looks like the GP-38 might be a keeper. It is pulling 19 coal cars with not much problem. It does slow down going up my small grade caused my the garage floor and not straight 2X4 frame work. (remember it started out as a HO slot car track and they did not care about grade) It acts much like my Bachmann DCC on board engines in that respect. Might be able to teak the CV's after I figuer them out.
Der 5997 My self, I would have the Program Track off the layout. What DCC system are you using anyway? If Digitrax I stronly recomond getting a PR-3 computer interface.
Galaxy Sure hope you feel better soon!
Later Ken
I hate Rust
Evening Diners,
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Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Der 5997 My self, I would have the Program Track off the layout.
What DCC system are you using anyway? If Digitrax I stronly recomond getting a PR-3 computer interface.
Der- Flaws in design . Just one that I noticed, the interchange track by the city and the river. You could move the track through the city slightly or underneath it. Because that tail track is blocking the other tail track.
Will this track be the expansion in the future? Those are running flaws I saw if I ran three locomotives on it.
For your pleasure:
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-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Hey guys
I now fully understand KEN'S frustrarions wiht the mortgage companies. I spent most of yesterday after jt. therapy arguing with the two over mine!
CoA: the originatior, first payment due Jan 1s, {after closign the day before TG}. Sent out an EXTRA $1241 ABOVE the mrotgage payment for principle only payment on Dec 21. Dec 22 dated letter comes telling me they SOLD the mortgage to CoB. CoA gets the payment on Dec 27, and assures me they will forward it on to CoB. SUre they will.
FAst forward to yesterday, NO PAYMENT COUPON YET received form CoB...I call where is IT? ITs due to them by FEB 1st! We also want to sned an additional $7k to them to reduce/eliminate PMI as we only put the 10% down to assure we had money on hand too. COb DOENST HAVEour mortgage "in their system yet"???? SO the website they send me rejects my mortgage # and SS # { I DON'T liek putting thta in hte puter anyway}. CAUSE its NOT IN THEIR SYSTEM YET..it is Jan 21, the 1ST is closing in, nad htey don't recognize my mortgage yet???
COA says they also forwarded the $1241 to the cob on the 11th? the 11th? REALLY? THEY got it nad it cleared before the 1st of Jan???
COb DOENST have the extra $1241 either in 10 days id not get to them?...so coA says they will trace it.
Cob supervisor calls and says fri she will make sure it gets "in hte system" so I can access it. She will personally call me to help. SUre.
oh, nad the mortgage was for $61,200, but cob says I owe $61,109? I SENT TEH extra $1241 PLUS $287 of the original mortagage payment due Jan 1st WAS principle part of payment...NOT $90!!!!Interest was in addition to the $287 as the payment for principle, taxes, insrance and interest and PMI is a total of $567.73. SHOULD be reduce by aobut $300 with teh REGUALR apyment alone!!! SHOULD be sold at $59,920 abouts, NOT $61,109!!!
Meanwhile Cob say "you wont be assesed a late fee"..DUH I want it IN to them by the 1ast, BUT I am paYING DAIY INTEREST on the $61,109!!!! back to $61,200 already adn I have sent in $1809 already?????
COb Says don't sned any extr now....They wnat the interest money???? I can send later when "in their system"? Their home offices is in TN, and the payment center is in NJ?
Thats like hte electric company. I called ot turn off old service FEb 1st, "We can;t do it then, we can onthe 3rd" WHAT? We don't have a shut off appt until the 3rd.,whne its conventient for them. I took it, but then thought,,,,WAIT a MINUTE,,I AM THE CUSTOMER, I tell YOU when I wnat it turned off, NOT YOU TELL ME when IT's "convenient" for you!!!!!
GRRR...good thing I'm on steroids I am no match for any animal vegetabe or mineral who wants to cross me!!!
Oh,,,, and MR> Galaxy, you have a NICE day!!!
Good Morning.
Gonna be a mix of sun and cloud today. High of 28F forecast.
Get to do some basic food stuff buying and visit the gang at our local diner today, then home and work on the layout. Still with the scratchy throat...I do think it is the dry air in here...le sigh.
Make it a great day!!!
Greetings from the heart of snow wimp country. What schools systems aren't closed now, will close at noon for the snow that won't start until 5 pm. State and county robo calls warning me of the weather have displaced Bridget from Credit Card Services as the most frequent nuisance call. The TV stations have not gone to 24 hour coverage yet.
Grocery store shelves of bread, meat and toilet paper are empty. That reminds me, so is my bottle of bourbon. Got to go fight the crowds of panic at the liquor store.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Yes, that's standard procedure for the first storm of the year in New England, too, but after last year it seems prudent. I've stocked up on beer, and thanks to the design of our home the garage makes a perfect beer fridge all winter, staying in that nice 33-40 degree range.
We may get a dusting from The Big One, or maybe nothing, or maybe I'll wake up Sunday morning to 8 inches of partly cloudy to shovel off my walks. Right now the temperature is in the 20s under perfectly clear blue skies.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Good morning ...
We're part of the big winter storm, and there is pkenty of wet snow outside. A great day to be inside with model trains.
YGW ... I hope Kelly is improving. We all care. ... I think it was exceptionally good of Richard to provide the contact information for donations, and I don't understand Galaxy's long post several days ago which apparently hurt Richard's feelings. I hope Galaxy gets over his illness soon, and I cetainly care about him. However, the issue is not resolved yet. It is in no way your fault, YGW. As long as that is not resolved by Galaxy, I don't think the Diner is as fun as it could be.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Good Afternoon (well, almost evening)!
I am back home, but I feel exhausted from the trip. It´s been an icy cold day here wth temperatures down to -10°C. Add to that the wind chill factor, as it was blowing quite heftily.
I am not reporting back to duty today. There is a lot of reading for me to do to catch up on what´s been going on lately. Allow me a day or two to recover before I´ll be a regualr again.
CU soon!
Mornin' Everyone!
Zoe, Bring me a pot of fresh brewed Marrakesh Express Organic, Fair Traded, Dark Roast coffee, my R&GV RR Mug, and a dozen of the Sour Cream Glazed Donuts!!! What? To heck with the sugar! Besides Virtual Sugar doesn't raise my Blood Sugar a bit!
Darn, I just got 9 more emails in the inbox to deal with.... Probably 7 of them I will just delete... I've already spent two hours online chasing down info for the NMRA and for the MLK. I do finally have all the correct names of the winners of the Art and Poetry Contest. Now I can finish up the certificates and take them and the rest of the prize money to the schools for them to get the signed Permission to Use form for us. I can also release the final copy to the schools and the local paper for publication (after I do that there will be 3 more corrections to the list most likely....). have also been answering a bunch of emails from NJRA Members on when I can get them to sign the petition.
Galaxy, that is why I will never, ever do business with a bank! I only do my business with my Credit Union! They never sell mortgages! I favor people who want to make a law to not let banks sell mortgages!!! (Won't say anything more... Politics you know!) Most major Corporations now figure they have you by the.... ah... you fill in the blank, so you have to kowtow to them. You are simply a way to make $$$$ for the (can't say that either!) shall we say those who allready have way too much of our $$$.
Luckily we are not suposed to get anything from the Nor'Easter roaring up the east coast. My sister however leaves for another of her trips to the "Very Far on Sunday. She flies from Rochester (which shouild be fine) to JFK in Newark which is NOT supposed to be fine! "It's a Lovely Day Today.... And whatever you've got to do......?
Quote for the day: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on!" - Robert Frost
OK.... Almost noon. Guess it's time I got dressed for the day. I did take time for some coffee and a bowl of cereal earlier... Much earlier!
Later!
WEllm, the Dr put me on anither round of antibiotics, and a nevulizer 4 times a day,and Metformin for the sugar, hes skeptical aobut anything more as he doesn't wnat my sugar to drop too low eihter, if it improves on its own.
GARRY: WHy are you belaboring a post I "resolved" when I posted it and the follow-up post to it? You seem to posting aobut it nearly every other day, for a matter that might clearly not involve you. I said the post was for the public of the forum, If ANYONE has any direct concerns, they can PM ME. Pehaps you'd like to do the same??? Otherwise, since it appears NOT to involve you, or step on your toes, I'd suggest you let it go.IF it doens't concern you, doesn't involve you, it doesn't apply to you, now does it?
To all: thanks to those who have donated, I am still willing to collect funds for YGW's SIL until the end of febuary,then will forward through the necessary channels directly to her benefit. SHE and the boys will have other expenses than jsut the extraordinary medical bills she will face. PM me for details, I am sure we can raise a nice tidy sum to show BOTH YGW and his SIL how MUCH we care! I am sure we have DEEP hearts, even though we may have short thin pockets. It'd be nice if we could all had big deep pockets! I am amazed at who does and who doesn't contribute, the manner and the generosity of their wallets when I take a collection!
Now onto other matters:have a nice day, as the mortgage people told me. CoB called nad said the mortgage is now in the system, but they are clsoed todya due to weather in TN. I have yet to hear aobut the tracing of the funds CoA SAY they forwarded. i guess I will put the extra funds into a different institution to earn better interest on it, AND hold it to the next payment is due. Sad, that everybody wants money form you but don't wnat more to pay it off quicker? like KEN getting stuck into a new 30 years mortgage toget a lower payment!
RAY: we should have gone wiht the CU but approval was biff bam boom nad recommended to us, the CU might not have allowed us the mrtgage, even though we easily qualified for the convenitonal mortgage, as they have strciter reqirements, and would have made a mess of things. I am tempted to spend the $7k extr and re-close with the CU, but why pay even more? We already paid 100% closing costs ans the seller siad they wouldnot pay any part of it..GRRR
have a nice day {with a sneering smile}
Not to worry, I am not hurt or upset. I have just found my time being spent elsewhere.
Richard
Well, 6 hours into Metformin, and my sugar is the lowest in 2 weeks.....at 133! AND that is after dinner of cinnamon Apples {questionable}, turkey leg {protein},and 2 table spoons only of stuffing with gravy { small amount of carbs bad}.
SO I am feeling good about it now, at least better, as long as my sugar doesn't drop too much more....It was 214 starving this morning before the Dr. appt.
SO THAT is getting under control.
The antibiotic doesn't seemt o be working,and the neulizer is nice but not the end all to be all.
OH oH OH,,,ULRICH is supposed to come home today! WELCOME BACK ULRICH! Hope he makes it safely.
I see I got TIppy TOP: so dinner of Turkey leg, minimal stuffing and cinnamon apples for all!
Good evening diners. I was able to do a little work on the layout this afternoon. Since gluing down another section of kerfed Homosote, todays' task was to fill in all the kerf cuts with joint compound. Should be able to sand the surface and do the final coat tomorrow. Started kerfing another section for yet another curve section into the planned yard area. Tonight I may cut up a couple of turnout sections of ties and have them ready for staining tomorrow.
I did my good deed and shoveled the neighbors sidewalk. He has a-fib issues and probably should avoid shoveling. Started on another neighbors walk but whimped out before getting to the end of the block. Just not in as good of shape as I used to be. We have about six inches of the white stuff heading for a total of 14 inches by the time its done tomorroww according to the local news.
Time for a nice hot bowl of chilli.
Later,
Jim
Lucy is all cuddled up between my arms whilst I am trying to type chicken wing style here, lol!! Her purrs are loud here....
After I finished the grocery getting and visit with the gang at our diner I went home and began replacing couplers on a few hopper cars ... and. promptly ran into my favorite bugbear... losing coupler springs...which, of course, meant crawling around on my hands and knees looking for the dern things...which I managed to do. Now, because of that, my sciatica is having war with me....das pain from das sciatica!!!
Good evening ..
Galaxy ... I was responding publically to what you called your public comment. To be clear, I care about you and certainly pray for your health issues. You are a good person, ..... In that long public post last week, you said things I did not understand. I said it was not clear to me what your point was. I said you should answer Richard's question. In response to me, you made a terse comment which did not clear up your point in the long post. I waited a couple of days, and it looked like things were not cleared up, and so I commented. ... I waited a couple more days, and again nothing had been resolved as far as I could tell. ... Again, you are the one who started all of this with that long public post. .... In that long post, you said your integity was being questioned, but I see no evidence of that. You seen like you have very high integurty, and your efforts to help Kelly are very commendable. ... Now, Richard has stepped in to say he is okay with eveything and I certainly am glad that is so. I like Richard's comments, and he seems like a very good person to have in the Diner. ... Speaking of hurt feelings, I may have hurt yours. If so, I'm sorry. I was just trying to clear things up. .... The Diner is to be a fun place for all. .... Galaxy, one more thing: please get well !
Richard... Thanks for clearing up how you feel. Hope to see you here more often.
Evenin' folks!
Janie, I really, really need a cup of hot decaf coffee tonight.
Been a very long and frustrating day around here. I won't go into a lot of details, I'll just say it involves someone getting into my ebay account and selling some stuff.. yesterday I cancelledclosed my PayPal account. They had my credit card from about 10 years ago on file. Been years since I did any business with ebay or paypal. Spent an hour on the phone with someone whom I had a lot of trouble understanding. His English was OK, I just have major trouble hearing on corporate telephones. He was very nice and frienldy.... I wasn't! They have at least locked the account so no more sales can go through it. I have to wait to see what they do about the several hundreds of dollars of fees and stuff the ........... Ran up on the account. It had been selling for about 6 weeks as far as I can see. Ebay is not at all really helpful in solving these kind of things. You, the account owner are pretty much on your own...
Garry, good to see you! I think that particular post was written when the person really was not feeling good and under a lot of duress. 'nuff said...
I took a small break from growling online and on the phone today to drive over to Radidio Snack to see if they had some of the Terminal Strip Jumpers. Nope! Looked online and my guess is they are no longer going to carry the terminal strips and the jumpers. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! I did get to chat with an old student of mine who after I mentioned that I wanted them to use on my model railroad, lit up like a large lightbulb. It seems she inherited from her Grandfather some 1950s Lionel stuff, still in the original box. She doesn't want to sell it but would like to know if what she has is worth anything. She wants to pass it down through the family. I told her some places she might be able to get ot appraised. Anyway, I came back home, went down to the train rooms and soldered some of my own homemade jumpers to do the job! They will work just as well!!! Another place to cross off the go into and buy list!
Years ago I used to make my own terminal strips using finishing nails... They worked fine! Did it then, I can do it now....
Hope all of you have had a better day than I did. Maybe tomorrow will be better.
Prayers for all of you in need!
Flo, please.
Ulrich Great to have you back at the dinner! Well, from your post full time in a day or two.
Today was boring here at home and at work, some times boring can be good.
Ken
Good Morning Folks!
It feels so good to be back & wake up in my own bed again! I am in a happy mood, so will you please put all what these chowhounds will be ordering during the day on my tab, Flo? I´ll just have a mug of coffee and a cinnamon roll, please.
I did some reading of older posts yesterday to bring me up to speed what has been going on during my absence. I am sorry there was a bit of a fuss about the help for Kelly, but I am glad that has been sorted out. I hope Kelly is improving - would you please provide us with an update, YGW?
Good to see John is back as a regular. John - SCARM is supposedly an easy program to learn how to work with, but it has a learning curve to it. It took me quite some time to figure out how to shape flex track or how to cut off track sections. I also find designing structures in the 2D mode a little cumbersome, as there is a lot of trial and error involved in adapting and positioning the roof and doors/windows. Let me know if I can be of any assistance to you for your layout design.
Someone ask the question whether my layout is a shelf layout (IIRC). It is not - it´s a small, 3 by 5 ft layout with a simple oval of track and a team track for some switching. Not much in terms of operation, but I find it rather relaxing to watch a train run through some nice scenery.
In case you have missed it, here is a 3D view of the plan:
... and from above:
My friend Lothar has sorted out the electrical problems while I was away. For whatever reason, the old scratchbuilt controller had given up its ghost and he rewired an old Roco PWM controller to be plugged into the control panel. There is something wrong with that as well - I have to watch carefully not to turn it up too much. At full speed, it delivers 26(!)V to the track and that would toast my locos! It´ll have to be replaced eventually. As long as I watch out, I can run a train, which I already did. I enjoyed after those weeks of being abstinent!
With the wiring done and the electrical issues now sorted out, I can start to w*rk on the scenery, which will basically mean cutting and shaping those boards of Styrofoam I bought shortly before being sent off to the rehab.
Another questions that was asked comes to my mind. About that engineer turning his head. The wonders of computer animation! I like that Google StreetView look of the layout. It shows you details you´ll never be able to see as a visitor! Miniatur Wunderland will open a new section this Summer and I will definitively go there! I have been to it a number of times, but each time I find things I hadn´t seen before.
I think I will go for a walk today - it´s still icy cold, but nice.
This morning´s view from our living room window, taken a few minutes after sunrise:
Have a great weekend!
Well, today was supposed to be a moving day.
The train nut friend has been dealing wiht a change of meds, and the other day when arising, he got dizzy, fell nad hit his head. But he is here today.
Spouse had to work both jobs today, but the special needs client canceled. SO iis free after noonthirty. I am hanging in there.Is still wiht a cold too.
Now here comes the rub: two healthy, able bodied friends WERE to help, but thought it "crazy they were the only two able bodied people to move, time to reschedule"....now we are running out of month and may have to beg off on the park to allow us one more month as it is.. These guys we helped move some odd 10 years ago, helped set up hteir house and even painted it too.
FAR BE it for us to expect two ABLE BODIED people to help!!!!!!
GRR. So I said forget it we will manage somehow! Thanks for nothing!
So that is our plan I will rent a uhaul van and if the ABLE bODIED show up, so much the better. but not expecting them, They were only going to be able to help from 10 am to 3:30 pm anyway.
Sheesh... able bodied, but not able minded????
I just hope I don;t wear out to quickly.
Galaxy, sorry about your 'friends'
Impossible to know how much snow is out there because of the drifing, this picture makes it look worse than it is.
That's my Big Green Egg under there. 6 more hours of wind and snow forecast, so far no freezing rain or sleet.
SCARM, not as steep a learning curve as XTrckCAD, the later I haven't figured out. SCARM has better teaching videos, but I never figured out how to add buildings, which is too bad because I think I am planning too much track and not enough space.
BigDaddySCARM, not as steep a learning curve as XTrckCAD, the later I haven't figured out. SCARM has better teaching videos, but I never figured out how to add buildings, which is too bad because I think I am planning too much track and not enough space.
Yup, there is a certain danger to have too much track and not enough space for structures or scenery. I always crinch when I see track planned to the very edge of the benchwork, leaving no room for some kind of a "vertical transition" between the track and the backdrop.
To make buildings in SCARM, you basically draw a rectangle in the 2D mode, using the"figures" function (scroll down on the track system library) and then add position and height in the settings for this object. Click on the object and you can add a roof to it. IIRC, there is also a video tutorial on how to design structures.
I have probably spend well over 200 hours on my plan, but it was a learning by doing affair.
Good morning
We have sun out here!! And lots of it!! Mind you, the current temperature is 5F feeling like -4 out.
Going to be a quiet weekend up here for once...no runnin' 'roun' doin' stuff and doin' the gotta buys and such. So I will enjoy my traintime a lot now...
Ulrich: Good to see you here!! And SCARM does a lot better with that plan...like how it is shaping up.
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes, Pure NYS maple Surup, a couple sausage, and a pot of Marrakesh Express Dark Roast Coffee to start my day. Thank you Ma'am!
Hope all of you in the path of Jonas are safe and warm...
BC, you are a bit colder up North of the Lake than here in the Finger Lakes this morning. It is currently 19°F outside with a predicted high of 26°F sometime, maybe... They are calling today "Fair" here. Maybe "Fair to Middlin'" The symbol shows the sun peaking through the cloud cover.... Lets just say right here I can't find any shadows out there.... LOL
Would be nice if the sun would come out and clear the sn*w off the solar panels so they could make some electricity today. They started to clear yesterday, but still had about half the panels still covered. Once the sun comes out they will clear off rather quickly as the panels generate heat as well as electricity.
I sent out an email to 21 of my NMRA members asking for a day/evening when we could come to visit and get their signature... That was two days ago. I have heard back form one person who is presently way down South on Business, and one who lives Just South of the city... I dunno! Nothing seems to be going right around here so far this year! I did hear back from the company I purchased the walls from. He just mailed them out to me with an appology. He got completely swamped with some other things. I should have them here first of the week.
This I found over across the street... Figured you folks might enjoy it.
Have a good one, stay warm and safe wherever you are!
Hello all from snowy VA. We are up to 20+/- inches of snow with final amount expected to be 30 to 36". Have some drifts at least 4' deep. Amazingly we have not lost power yet. Typically we blink or the wind blows the wrong way and we loose power.
BO Cyl. 5 degrees. I tell you I think living with temps that low would be unbearable.
Henry - snow eggs ? Guess that was laid by a Canadian goose !
Galaxy - you know they name streets after friends like that that you help and then they do not return the favor.... "One Way " had a few one wayfriends .
Ulrich - HELLO !!!!! SO glad you are back !!! Nice photo is that near you ?
Howmus eBay, so sorry it is so frustrating dealing with internet companies when things go south. Do not understand terminal strips and finish nail. Can you explain a bit more detail ?
Garry hello how are things in your neck of the woods ?
Jim good for you helping others !
Richard glad you had some time to pop back in. Love seeing you here.
DER - nice job it is looking better all of the time. I would recommend a separate program track. I read an MRR article that gave multiple reason some years ago. Don't remember the reasons.
V8 how young are you ? Surf is up ?!
SIL Update. She is home with lots and lots of stitches and she has brain damage. She is in therapy to to help her cope/relearn
Gotta gear up and fire the kubato up. Some neighber and myself will be plowing our neighborhood. Brrrr no cab !
TTYL
YGW
yougottawantaDo not understand terminal strips and finish nail. Can you explain a bit more detail ?
One picture is worth.....
There are 3 of them in the photo. Lots of wires going to them....LOL Two of them are on the tortoise assemblies, and one in the middle. The Terminal strip allows me to connect several short riuns to the maion bus or to the DC bus for operating the Torti and lighting, etc. I have used about a hundred so far on the layout... Before I had any $$$ to buy the Terminal strips I used to make a home made assemby to do the same thing using Finishing Nails through a strip of wood. On one side I would solder a wire across the nails that I wanted to have the same polarity. Then add one set of live wires on the other side. I could then put in wire drops to track, etc and solder them to the proper finishing nails for the proper polarity. I'll see if I can find a photo of one.