Cliff knows all!
Thanks Cliff
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature 
Well, shiver me timbers. . . .
Looks like the “equals” sign (=) does the same thing as the minus sign.
Also, a string of 3 or more underscore characters (___) makes a thin gray line
A string of 3 or more tildes (~~~) makes the all the following text gray; and another such string turns the gray off.
Sorry Vic… I guess your amazing work invoked all this… 
What the heck? Is this a grammar thread now?
I’ve been testing different rolling stock for clearances and found my Lionel passenger cars suddenly decided they didn’t like the hinges on my lift bridge and began fouling the cars steps, so I swapped them out with narrower hinges but took two tries and a bunch of fiddling too get everything lined up again. Oh well on to the next challenge, figuring out how I cut the power supply wire to half the layout, 
Vic
I am quite enjoying your thread.
Your use of forced perspective is captivating amazing.
Just how tight do you run your curves?
I’m using 4’ diameter R1 curves except for the pizza track which are 21" diameter that were bent down.
Hi Korm, nope I literally broke the main power wire. Probably while moving boxes around. Trouble is I can’t locate the other broken end, it’s under there somewhere 
Well Korm you weren’t kidding, but LOL is wasn’t for what I posted about. That was relatively easy to reconnect. Where the FUBAR occurred was that after reconnecting the power lead I COULD NOT get the layout on the south side of the loop to work. just dead even when I applied jumpers to bypass the leads and the track selector switches. Argh! I had to vacuum up the ballast (I didn’t glue it down for just such an possibility) then proceeded to tear apart the track and reassembling it piece by piece making sure each section worked until I found the culprit. It turned out to be an LGB switch. After removal and investigation it turned out to be somehow the metal strips that connect power to the moving parts of the rails were touching, shorting the whole blasted thing!, three attempts were made to fix the problem but once I thought I had it solved I found it still had a dead points, argh! So I just tossed it and found a new one. So now its completely working again. Geez! Finally! BTW we’ve been dealing with insane hot weather the last 2 weeks (a truly insane 115 a few days ago) so progress was very slow. But at least its finally done, Pics soon.
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Those “Ah Haaaaahhh” moments are Awesome especially when pissed off looking for the culprit! Then comes the feeling of “Oh Yeah Baby” I got this one! Then back to being pissed off saying " Why Didn’t I think about that to begin with" . I believe we have all been down that road before!
HAHAHA yep except in my case it was Ahh HAA I fixed…er…no I didn’t. Aah Ha that did it…umm…no it didnt. Hence me tossing the defective switch into the sideyard and going new. Remember the old saying. If it jams, force it, if it breaks well now you have to replace it anyways.
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a clear case of happy RR-ing! 
