David Russell said:
Noel Arnold said:
Laying ballast now, hope to have “Golden Spike” driven by July 1st.I’m gonna hold you to that date! Can I talk you out of those railclamps and suggest hard soldered track for say 15 too 20’ runs then clamp? Looks like my kinda RR
Me too, I hope. I’m going to try and post another pix to show the ballast progress, kinda hard to see the rail as I haven’t brushed a lot of it yet. BTW, I have heard of soldering joints, but don’t quite understand soldering several and then doing the clamps. I have clamps and LGB paste at EVERY joint. To clarify, the building where the cinder block is, is the shed, and the power wires will be coming out of there to all of the tracks you see, plus there will be two feed to the freight yard. If you’re planning on coming for a run, here’s some of the specs: Main line, 20’ diameter curves, distance between track centers on curves 7", on the rest of the track 6"-7", maximum grade >.5%, all turnouts to sidings are approached from the frog end in normal operation. There are two mainlines, each approximately 750’, all turnouts between the two mains are #6, each main is controlled by an Aristo-Craft handheld through a 15 amp power supply, all track on the mains is brass. Freight yard approximately 175’, all turnouts #4, all brass rail and controlled by an Aristo-Craft hand held with a 10 amp power supply. Live steam can be supported by the benchwork, but we do not have full power for the operation of DCC (although we could do that easily enough if necessary). We run a lot of battery powered units, and, depending on your system, you may need to follow you engine around in this mode due to range limitations. You can walk around most of the layout, and we are in the process of constructing bridges to get to the inner circle that does not have full access. Any thoughts on building the access bridges would be greatly appreciated.
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