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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 folks all turnouts are installed ! had to replace another one but no big thing. yesterday i started wiring the frog and track feeders. that's easiest if the layout is powered on. beepbeepbeepbeep....wtf ?? there's a short somewhere. inspecting the track for any deraild engine or car or tools didn't solve the problem. after cutting out each dcc booster i found out that there's a short between booster districts "main 2" and "north yard". after that it was easy. at the north end there's a short switch-over between main 2b and the yard. this track should have been double insulted (both rails) but there was just one plastic rail joiner. so i ripped ot the track quickly. unfortunately this made two other plastic railjoiners jump of the rail at two turnouts. i had to install these two turnouts , align the rail joiners and reinstall them. today i relaid that section of track and started ballasting. while letting the glue dry i ran the trains on my layout into the yard. there's still alot of room left for additional cars. guess it will hold approx 400 cars. not as much as i wanted but due to space constrains i couldn't build the yard bigger. here are some pics of the yard partially filled. [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/yard7.jpg[/img] the switcher crew at work [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/yard8.jpg[/img] birds eye view of the yard [img]http://www.sschaer.org/testing/yard9.jpg[/img] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.