Saturday, April 29, 2023

Spring 2023 layout update

It's been a couple months since I've added anything here.  We spent 30 days in Japan during February and March.  After returning I was part of a 5-day long exhibit with the AsiaNrail layout, link HERE.  After that there was another short trip to visit friends about 100 miles north of here.  But here are a few things that have been going on with the layout recently.

When starting up the layout for the first time after returning from Japan, I discovered that the inputs to the Digitrax DS64 that controls the upper or WP staging yard were not working.  I tried re-setting the DS64 and then re-programming the routes.  The routes worked when activated from the throttle but not from the control panel using the wired inputs.

So I removed the DS64 and built a circuit that will at least run the turnout that creates the reversing loop.  This was built on a Radio Shack PC board and is similar to others I have built in the past.  Later I will build another circuit that will allow the control panel to select which of the sidings to use.  This is similar to what I did on the lower or SP yard.










Now I am working on some more Micro-Trains HUMVEE modifications and installing them on flat cars.  If these come out well I may enter something in the model contest at the N Scale convention in June.










Before leaving for Japan I got out the figures from the Woodland Scenics Hobo set and made this little scene under the Southern Pacific bridge just east of the Palisade tunnels.



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