Or something like that. Spent some delightful hours Sunday and after work today digging a trench and assembling some 1" conduit to carry low-voltage wiring from my shed to the layout down below. All transformers, TE controllers and any other mains connections are going to stay in the shed, well away from rain and curious little hands. I did think of simply trenching in the low-volt wiring sans conduit, but I want to protect it from errant garden tools (DON’T ask :P), and with the conduit I can always run another line without digging again.
Of course, I realize mention of wiring will bring a bombardment from the battery brigade 
Nah!!! We all just smile wryly. 
Chris, I run track power as well and belong to a club that is almost exclusively battery power. Luckily I am deaf in one ear sooo, you guessed it, I just turn the deaf ear to them and smile. LOL
Ron
Chris I’m a track power person as well. Nothing like being able to run trains for as long as you like with out having to worry about the power giving out. If my trains run out of power th eblock is with out power as well.
Long live track power. 
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Wiring we don’t need no stinking wiring!! Hah just battery/RC 101 hee hee Regal
Chris,
When are you going to learn not to start wars???
One advantage that I see with my having a raised (albeit short) railroad is that I wont have to bury wiring, I can just suspend it from the spline/benchwork.
War is over, as always track power wins…
Bob McCown said:On the layout itself, that's what I am going to do. I just had to bridge (tunnel) the 20' gap between the layout and that nice dry shed, which is going to house anything connected to 120v. Spent a couple of hours this aft attaching the conduit to the layout and refilling the trench. It'll take a while for the dirt to pack down, and undoubtedly I'll have to pile on more dirt as it settles. When safe planting season arrives, I'm going to find some low shrubbery ("Shrubbery!") or tallish perennials to mask the edges of the raised section where it comes off the slope in the yard
One advantage that I see with my having a raised (albeit short) railroad is that I wont have to bury wiring, I can just suspend it from the spline/benchwork.
TonyWalsham said:Who? Little old me? :P
Chris, When are you going to learn not to start wars??? ;)
TonyWalsham said:Yup, a gulp or two of rye tends to induce a smile.
Nah!!! We all just smile wryly. ;)
Jerry Hansen said:
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Wait you have cookies !!! I’m feeling the dark force pulling me(only for the cookies though) So does the Dark Side allow them too be consumed in bed watching while TV?
You betcha!
Can’t wait to go outside and get down on my hands and knees and scrub the living hell out of that old brown track!
Ooops, I fergot. I run Batt.
Whew. For a moment I thot I’d have some physical labor to do.
Naw, I’ll fire up the brush car. Let it do a lap and run some trains.
What is the smiley for a wry smile.
John Bouck said:
You betcha! Can't wait to go outside and get down on my hands and knees and scrub the living hell out of that old brown track! :) :) Ooops, I fergot. I run Batt. Whew. For a moment I thot I'd have some physical labor to do. Naw, I'll fire up the brush car. Let it do a lap and run some trains.
WTF…You mean I could be getting down and clean my track. Sh*t all I do now is put a track cleaning loco on the rails and grab a cold one why the loco cleans the track for me. Now that I know I can craw around and clean the track I guess I will be selling that LGB track cleaner.
TonyWalsham said:
What is the smiley for a wry smile.
This might work…
Thanks Ken.
Better than I could come up with.
Since I will soon have battery and track power I guess it means I’m bi?
Hmmm,… DC is bi-polar, but AC is just wavy.