1 Wokring on the track that services the coal tower dump/hoist house.
2 A gaggle of locos getting sand.
3 The ash/cinder pit and hoist
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5 Gluing down the track in the helper district lower service terminal.
6 The new track in the helper district lower service terminal. There will be a small coal tower, water tower, and loco service facility here.
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8 I plan to run 2-8-8-2 (prototypical) and 2-6-6-4 (on loan - non prototypical) as helper locomotives.
9 I used my photo printer to print the control panel for the turntable/roundhouse track. Each track coming off the turntable (except for the 3 main inbound/outbound tracks) have toggle switches to control track power. There are 17 tracks total (4 garden tracks (4-7), 12 roundhouse tracks (8-19), and 1 service building track(20)).
10 After installing the 17 toggle switches and Walthers turntable control unit.
11 Wiring the 17 track power switches. Because of the relatively long "feeder" runs, I used 18ga wire to run from the track power bus to the toggle switches and then 18ga back to the red track power feeder bus bars.
12 And now all the tracks in the roundhouse have power!
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14 It's time to do something about the very plastic nature of the Walthers turntable. The deck is shiny and does not look like wood.
15 Going to use a mix of Nutmeg Brown and just a little black for the bridge deck and track.
16 After painting the bridge deck and track.
17 Deck looks much better, but I need to paint the railings, tower, and driver's shed.
18 The pit needs a whole lot of weathering.
2019