How to Electrify a railroad

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Well, i didn't do much work today, but tommorow i'm going to be going back to cutting the brass stock to make two more catenary bridges. when those 4 get built, they'll all get painted, and i i'll begin hanging wire between those, and then move to the next section.

for the next section, i'm going to try for the wire cross span catenary, not the K-braces. it should look neat. additionally, i'm thinking about adding a grade crossing and an "abandoned" RoW in between the main tracks, mirroring practices like on the Amtrak Harrisburg line. I may also decide to actually add tracks, but i better make this decision before i finish the catenary there.

In any event, today i added some signal arms, but didn't get GOOD pictures of them. they are essentially 7 scale foot angle pieces with littl wires poking up to support the insulators (i need to add these) and signal wire. I'll cut them short when the wire is on.

you can kinda see them in the "inside" pole. they look close to the cross beam, but are about 6 scale inches above. this matches some North Jersey Coastline (aka New York & Long Branch) Catenary i have photos of. this is on the other bridge as well (which right now only needs another set of grab irons).

Its just a little detail, but it will look nice when the whole system is wired up.