Saturday, April 4, 2009

N Scale Progress

It appears some guys have been pretty busy down at the depot (I've been tied up with some other stuff). They have researched some landmarks around Coleman and Echo Texas, and have come up with what looks like a workable track plan.


This is the left side of the layout. Coleman will be on the right (front), San Angelo Junction will be further back (at the Y), and Echo will off to the left. The track is just tacked down to see if the plan will be workable, and it looks pretty good.


In the back of this picture, you can see the 16" wide connector that joins the two parts of the layout together.

The DCC and DC power systems will be mounted under the connector piece along with a computer for central control. We will use straight DC power for normal display operations, and will switch to the DCC power for when we want to conduct operations.

There is track down on the other side as well, but it's got too much stuff piled on top for a good picture right now. The roundhouse tracks are actually under the boxes!

More as it happens...

1 comment:

WTexJoe said...

Bliss,

I saw this a few days ago, and am finally getting a round to commenting. This looks very interesting. I will look forward to your updates, as you can find the spare time (now, there's an oxymoron!) to post them.

Joe