01-31-2010, 01:40 PM
Typical - it took me 14 days to get back to what I had thought I would do "tomorrow" on the 16th.
Anyways - I finally got the main line around the room wired up and got to run a "small" test train. Well, small is a relative term - my RS-3 pulls pretty good, so in the end I hooked up fourteen 40-foot boxcars and ran it up and down the main, both pulling and pushing the cars up and down the inclines around the curves at the upper left hand corner and lower right hand corner by the door.
Seems to work okay. I then let my youngest kid do a round, before he backed the car into the warehouse district, and conductor dad went back to uncouple the rearmost three cars and signal for him to pull forward again. Worked like a charm.
Here is a picture of the first train on the rebuilt layout on it's way up the curve and over the cassette across the door opening.
![[Image: DSCN6165.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/warehouse/DSCN6165.jpg)
I have to tell you that it felt pretty good to run a train again. Next step - more wiring, both in the warehouse district and at the barge terminal.
Smile,
Stein
Anyways - I finally got the main line around the room wired up and got to run a "small" test train. Well, small is a relative term - my RS-3 pulls pretty good, so in the end I hooked up fourteen 40-foot boxcars and ran it up and down the main, both pulling and pushing the cars up and down the inclines around the curves at the upper left hand corner and lower right hand corner by the door.
Seems to work okay. I then let my youngest kid do a round, before he backed the car into the warehouse district, and conductor dad went back to uncouple the rearmost three cars and signal for him to pull forward again. Worked like a charm.
Here is a picture of the first train on the rebuilt layout on it's way up the curve and over the cassette across the door opening.
I have to tell you that it felt pretty good to run a train again. Next step - more wiring, both in the warehouse district and at the barge terminal.
Smile,
Stein