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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by sschaer[/i] [br]hello out there... work continued on my layout since the last work report. i spent countless hours crawling under the layout to do some wiring. as of now all existing trackwork is now wired and powered [:p] mainlines 2 and 3 are fully functional. all turnouts are dcc controled with powered frogs. mainline 1 is completely wired. turnouts in place but not yet usable. i need to position and adjust the servos, install dcc decoders and frog juicers. it will take a while before the 3rd mainline is finally ready for revenue. today i finished wiring the engine facility. all turnouts are working and their frogs are powered. a few test run showed that parts of the track are really dirty. guess i have to run the cleaning train for a while. here's the wiring aka mess that is used to control a few turnouts...guess i need to make it look a bit nicer though [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/wiring1.jpg[/img] this is the main power distribution panel of my layout. all dcc boosters, track sections, turnout groups are connected here. i know my dad will roll his eyes if he sees this.... maybe one day i will make it look professional. straigh wires, 90deg turns, bundled in groups. oh well... [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/wiring2.jpg[/img] engine facility is in use now ! once mainline 1 is operational i will start working on the facility building. [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/facility1.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/facility2.jpg[/img] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.