First Run

Hi folks, This past week saw the completion of track laying and adding the feeder wires to supply power to the rails. I added feeder wires on each side of all turnouts so that the unpowered frogs of the Micro Engineering turnouts would not be an issue. As I am using DCC, there is no need to use the power routing feature of the turnouts either. I ran a couple of trains as a general test of my installation and must say I was please as I only had one minor issue that was quickly overcome. As the weather has started to take a turn for the better (finally!!!), I will be taking some time to think more about the scenic elements that I want to use on this small layout as well as starting to work on another structure kit that I will be using on the layout - on that note, the brewery is 90 % complete and just needs its loading dock added. As it  is generally a small switching layout, the scenic features will be fairly simple. Here's a short video of one of the first trains to run  - the loco is one of my new Bachmann Whitcomb switchers which I totally love. Till next time