2021_03_07 Thursday workday with Al and Saturday with Graeme and Al
On Thursday Al came over to help with wiring and point motors. Its just too hard for me to work under the layout doing wiring or installing motors, and to constantly get up off my back, to locate the wiring, or to see if the points are working correctly, before I screw them home in their best position.
In a few days, Al's son is coming to visit and we decided to have an extra work day on Saturday, to see if we could get a train to run the whole layout. We needed to find one persistent short I introduced fixing other problems.
It seems like it worked, and I am about to spend today tidying up and testing everything. The good news is that so far this morning, I have placed sound locos around the layout drawing about 3.0 amps and the Digitrax system has stayed up for over two hours (the fault was shutting us down within 3 mins!)
Also on Saturday, Graeme came across to design some scenery and fascia, around the top of the helix, where the escape road points and connection to the top level SG track was recently finished.
ok some pictures should tell the story.
At this stage, we had run out of ANE point motors, and so I raided the Tortoise stack, which was reserved for semaphore signal and lever frame work being done by Tony McKenzie under a signalling contract.
Al finally got a sit down job, whilst I was underneath stringing the wires to the control panel and attaching the motors.
And so when we vacated the corner, Graeme moved in to install some new facia and prepare the branchline for scenery... woohoo!
I guess the outriggers are in position.
And finally!! a lot of ugliness is covered up!!
This is where McKenzie will fit a lever frame. Which will replace the existing one at Honeysuckle.
Helps introduce some contours and slightly widens the area. I can see a road here now :)
