At this point in time, there is no track at Glen Hammond and none on the eastern end of Nelson Yard. When I left at lunchtime, Fred was staining Nelson Yard, and Gord had just arrived with an armful of labeled track.
I did run my set of GP-9s through Ric’s route which passes through all points on both railway’s except Nelson Yard and Glen Hammond. With the run-arounds to reverse direction, it would take a full morning to drop a car at each location and pick them up on the return run.
Unlike other my other USAT diesels,
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each set of LED headlights in the GP-9s are connected to a Revolution trigger wire instead of HD1 and HD2. As I run these units as a set, I wanted independent control over each set of headlights so I could turn all but the lead unit’s headlights off.
Each pair of headlights draws less than 20 milliamps, which appears to be well within the power handling capabilities of the trigger wires. As I had already used the aBc throttle button for the Bell, gHi for the horn, jkL for less sound volume, and Mno for more sound volume, that left deF for the Front lights and 1 (HD1?) for the rear lights.
Good thing I installed volume control for the Phoenix Sound P8’s, as the chocolate lab behind Fred’s did not appreciate two GP-9s rumbling by his garden gate on the way up to Bell.