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Gary, I've just now thought of another question about the wiring. How do you do your drops from your rails to your main buss wires? At the modular club we have found that every single piece of rail needs it's own drop wire for reliable operation. Rail joiners, even if soldered, don't provide reliable electrical connections. Our biggest single problem with the electrical at any set up are the joiner tracks between modules that require the electrical connection to go through rail joiners on either end of the joiner track.

Your drops need to be small in order to hide them from view, but the small wires will result in a voltage drop if they are more than 6 inches long or so. I'm presuming that your drops are soldered to your buss wires in the junction boxes. How long are the longest drops?

Right after I posted this, I received an email on the Santa Fe Yahoo Group that I thought I'd pass on to you. The web site is
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They are coming out with a kit to convert the Bachmann high nose Gp7 & 9 to a chop nose version with a Topeka Cab. It will be limited run with kits made only for those who preorder by August 15 for delivery in the fall/winter of 2010. As a limited run it will be expensive, but I thought you might be interested.
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