Late again
Feb. 2nd, 2012 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoShould be in bed. But we finished putting the track onto our t-trak modules tonight and then wanted to test them. They work. What started as a two block project has turned into eight because someone couldn't imagine not being able to test and be sure they were functional.
T-trak are like mosaic squares of wood with train tracks running across one edge. They can be snapped together to form larger arrangements for club meets or shows. These are just bare wood at the moment, but the base tracks and wiring are installed and working. Next we add ballast and paint the wood, then scenery and buildings are added.
The photo above is a little dark, but shows the train crossing a double slip switch that lets it transfer from the inner track to the outer on the oval. After a complete circuit, it will change back to the outer track at this point.
Above you see the entire test train rounding a sharp curve. This is an EMD GP-35 locomotive in normal Detroit Toledo & Ironton paint for the 1960s and 70s, pulling two older boxcars, a gondola, and a steel caboose.
And now, to bed. Work tomorrow. Oh, yeah, the Woodstock groundhog did not see his shadow. We had dense fog at dawn today, and it lasted into the afternoon. I find the groundhogs to be no more and no less accurate than the National Weather Service, which is pretty pitiful when you come right down to it.
T-trak are like mosaic squares of wood with train tracks running across one edge. They can be snapped together to form larger arrangements for club meets or shows. These are just bare wood at the moment, but the base tracks and wiring are installed and working. Next we add ballast and paint the wood, then scenery and buildings are added.
The photo above is a little dark, but shows the train crossing a double slip switch that lets it transfer from the inner track to the outer on the oval. After a complete circuit, it will change back to the outer track at this point.
Above you see the entire test train rounding a sharp curve. This is an EMD GP-35 locomotive in normal Detroit Toledo & Ironton paint for the 1960s and 70s, pulling two older boxcars, a gondola, and a steel caboose.
And now, to bed. Work tomorrow. Oh, yeah, the Woodstock groundhog did not see his shadow. We had dense fog at dawn today, and it lasted into the afternoon. I find the groundhogs to be no more and no less accurate than the National Weather Service, which is pretty pitiful when you come right down to it.
