I decided I better flex my fingers a little bit and post to the blog what I have been up to lately. With the COVID 19 situation the world is going through now, things are progressing on the C&RGC Railroad.
Track laying for the Yrbi branch has been completed except for the town of Yrbi itself and the branch interchange where the branch leaves the main at Yrbi Jct in Duran. Yes, I have also decided on some city/block names for the railroad and plan on posting a schematic of the railroad showing the names and locations in the near future. I'm in the process of obtaining structures for Yrbi to help me decide on track placing. Yrbi will be the site for a large grain facility.
Over the past few months I have divided the railroad into electrical districts. Each district will entail the upper and lower section of the railroad for that district. I have divided the railroad into four districts. Over the last several months I have been wiring the districts to a central location for each. also I have been wiring track feeds and providing wiring for track detection for signaling minus the controls for signaling, that will come latter which will entail things that I'm not quite up on at the moment, and where the learning curve will be huge I assure you. Wiring is a tedious process and well???.....just wiring, nothing exciting, and unfortunately, for the most part, not very picture worthy. So far I have district 1 and 2 fully wired to their respective command/booster stations. District 3 is wired but not to the booster station yet because I have not purchased the two remaining boosters needed for district 3 and 4. These districts are the upper level of the railroad wired as I don't have any track installed yet on the bottom level.
Along with working on the railroad I have been installing decoders in locomotives and assembling a car or two. I've been collecting GP30s, my favorite EMD locomotive model, in different road names and installing decoders and lights in them along with replacing the dreaded cracked axle gears that older Proto 2000 Locomotives are famous for. So far I have DRGW, CNW, NYC, PRR, ATSF, Nickel Plate, B&O, with sound, got a steal on that one, and a BN in the near future, a one to one trade with a good friend of mine. Thats about it for this post. I know, not a very exciting post, but like I said wiring is just...well, wiring, not too interesting.
Power station for district 1.
Power station for district 2.
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