Update - September 7th, just less than one month to go before the Midwest Large Scale Train Show, October 3 -4, 2008.
All scenery/ballasting is in place. I’ve had a couple of minor adjustments/setbacks/redisigns. The “Flood Wall” had to be made removable for the attachment to the GGRC layout. It was just too tall to be acceptable. So this entailed running each module through the table saw and cutting off the integrated “Flood Wall”. So done and removable walls were built to replace them. Big mistake here, I used a lessor quality plywood, so a lot of time was put in to fillling and fairing the new walls. My next chance to under excel was the over engineering of attaching the new Flood wall. I thought I’d get those captured nut anchors and place them in the modules. They don’t work worth a durn. So I had to fill in the holes and go back to the simple fasteners of wall board screws. When you wallow out the hole to big, fill it in with epoxy and start over. The last of those holes are being filled to day and drying while I type this. It really wasn’t that big of task and I had a lot of other things that were going to take longer to dry.
Electrical wiring for the KVRwy.
Pretty simple. One connection for track power to Aristo TE and then from there to the transformer. Really just the same as for the KVRwy. Using split jaw railclamps, so the rail is the electrical buss with the wiring, shown above, for positive connection around the turnouts.
Electrical wiring for the GGRC.
The hard part. Objective needed to achieve traditional old block isolation. Insulated rails will be through insulated split jaw rail clamps replacing the traditional clamps on the tracks that need isolating. Also need to have local power for track powered equipment to run seperate from the GGRC main layout, but also the ability for every track to have access to the main power from the outside loop of the main layout. Using double pole, double throw electrical switches for this and hid the track plan inside one of the buildings on the transition module. I’ll have pictures of all this in the next couple of days as the Timesaver Switch Yard modules get set up in the garage along with the transition module and the main GGRC module that it all connects to.
The whole testing of this part of the work has been delayed by the need to put the hardtop back on the jeep, so it could be left outside. That happened last week as weather turned cool and rainey with the approaching hurricanes, as they move up through the middle of the Nation. So I’ve now got plenty of garage space and the electrical conduit legs are all on the modules. Soon as that epoxy is dry, and I have time, it will all be assembled.
Thanks for your interest.
