Showing posts with label staging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label staging. Show all posts
Saturday, January 23, 2010

The trains they are a-runnin'

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Yep, the goal of getting trains running again on Saturday was met. Here is my daughter Laura at the controls of the new Bachmann DDA40X on ...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Lower tier wiring near completion

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Turns out there were 26 pairs of feeder wires needed for the remaining lower tier, including 5 on the Auto-Reverse track. By last night I...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Lower tier finished less wiring

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Today I anchored the north side of the lower tier alcove bridge, then put down the rest of the track: If I have time I'll start on the w...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Lower tier switches in place

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More track laying today, I now have completed the lower tier staging through the remaining switches: The various boxes lying on the track ar...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

A Productive Weekend

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After finishing up the middle tier staging yesterday I got a lot done today on the lower tier: Progress today included: measuring and cuttin...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Middle tier staging complete

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Finished up the middle tier track today. The middle tier is not yet connected to the main layout as I haven't run the adjacent main layo...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

More mid-tier gluing

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Here's where the middle tier is as of tonight: I did a switch inventory and realized that I have no right switches left. I'm doing ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Mid-tier gluing progress

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Have made decent progress gluing down new track on the middle tier. Here is a photo as of tonight: I've nearly used up all the track sa...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Short solved -- and more

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I previously mentioned that there was an electrical short somewhere that affected the middle and lower tiers. I'd spent probably an hou...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Mid-tier subroadbed complete

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Finished cutting and installing the middle tier subroadbed. Here's a picture from the staging side of "the window": I did comp...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Mid-tier alcove bridge

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Not much new to report. I've started building the plywood subroadbed for the rest of the middle tier of staging. Just one picture to add...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Upper Tier completed

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Here's a picture of the upper tier with all track in place and tested. There is even a test train on the track: One note about this cons...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Atlas Code 80 Switch Prep Procedures

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Atlas Code 80 track and switches have seemingly been around forever, literally since the 1970s or 1960s. They are still sold today because t...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Electrical short debugging

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As mentioned earlier today , I discovered an electrical short when testing the newly laid upper tier track. At the time I'd inspected th...

Diamond rail cutting

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Ever since I completed the upper tier bridge structure I've had a "to-do" item of cutting the rails on both sides of the brid...

Wired .... but ...

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20 pairs of feeder wire and 5 sets of switch machine wire, including the unwired one from the middle tier, have been completed, and the new ...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Weekend Update

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Here's a picture of the layout as of Sunday evening: The whole of the upper tier now has the blue roadbed in place and track has been la...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Making sawdust

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Sometimes it seems my main output while building wooden benchwork is sawdust. I used to really like the benchwork part of the hobby, but aft...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

First Alcove bridge

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As I mentioned yesterday I need to build bridges across the west alcove. Three, in fact (one per tier). The first one, for the upper tier, i...
Friday, March 13, 2009

More wiring

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At first glance this may appear to be a mirror image of the picture from Sunday's post, but this is taken from the other side of the wal...