November 2005
It’s been a slow couple of months. My wife was down to
the last few weeks before having Ben and needed a lot of extra help around the
house. Ben arrived on the 15th of November as scheduled. Momma and
baby are both doing well. As for the railroad…The switch machines are installed
and wired in the staging yard. I’m hoping to work on the power drops and the
control panel over the holidays. I’m wiring this a little differently. I’m
running everything to a terminal blocks on the staging yard and then everything
in the control panel will run to a set of block mounted with it. I’ll use
jumpers to connect it all. This will allow me to move the control panel easier
once I get ready to build the dispatchers area.
I have several days off for Christmas and New Years and
I’m hoping to move the things around in the train room and get the yard
installed over the holiday. If the yard and return loop can be installed and
the wiring ready it will complete the track work necessary for the AP judging.
I’ll have to finish the panel and install the DCC. I’ll ballast it last and
then I’m ready. I REALLY wanted to have this done by now…In fact, if I go back
and read from this last spring I’m sure I was hoping to have all of this done
before the middle of June. I love trying to plan this stuff. It’s like my
Granny always said, “The fastest way to make God laugh is tell Him what you are
going to do tomorrow”.
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