After a while of the normal sorting things out with the house I got round to the 'railway room' which wasn't quite as user friendly as I had hoped due to fitted bedroom furniture (the problem of a rented property means I can't rip it out) and a great big 1930's chimney breast....
I have managed to finally get all the remaining fiddle yard boards connected and relaid the track into the fiddle yard and basically reworked the whole lot. For what feels like the past month when I've had the chance I've done nothing but solder and fit switches and connectors between baseboards.
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| Basic boards as moved and put up |
Some stock in the roads now the wiring is working (unlike my controller again after a recent return from Gaugemaster - track 1 has given up the ghost again...)
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| Immingham based B1 and 6 Mk1s (good old Mainline ones as test rake) |
Control panel for the fiddle yard and the jumble of wires behind - all the red is point motor switches and the positive feeds for each power feed. I really needed some more wire but with already having a lot of red and black (black being used for the common feed) I've used it and tried to label where I can. I imagine lots of headaches later though when things come detached if the layout does ever leave home!
The last couple of nights has involved a bit of break from wiring with a bit of laying of 'concrete' in the diesel depot. This is a bit of a trial and error attempt at using card that came with a box of envelopes as straighteners but happen to be exactly the right thickness to just sit under rail height. Locos run over fine and with a bit of concrete paint on one bit as a trial it doesn't look too bad - hopefully once its weathered and covered in oil spillage etc it should look much like the real thing....
Hopefully the next update won't take four months...!
