08-20-2023, 05:00 PM
I made a fair amount of progress on the module in the past couple weeks. I haven't been posting for a couple reasons but I thought I'd bring you all up to date.
I finally got my wiring harness. It's pretty simple, 5 bus wires with terminal strips to ancor them to the module and conectors on each end.
The bus wires and color coded: Red and Black for track power, Blue and white for accessories (switch machines, lighting) and the green for the booster ground. I attached feeders to the track busses but since I don't have any accessories I left the others untouched.
I routed the wiring harness under the module using some wiring brackets, I did the same with the loconet cable that will tie the two UP-5's together.
With that done I went back to the scenery.
I added a bit more foam blocking and carved it with my hot wire cutter.
I'm pretty happy with how the basic land forms look so on the the next step. I also masked off the foundations for the trestle bents, these will later be painted concrete.
I covered all the hilsides with plater cloth. It's been a few years since I used the product and it never fails to inmpress me with have easy and clean the process it compares to the old paster soaked papaer towels.
I went up the The abandonned Myra Canyon section on the Kettle valley Railway a couple weeks ago and took some photos of the trestles and especially the goundwork under the trestles. What I took away was that most of the slopes or tiers between the trestle bents are just that, slopes instead of vertical rock faces. So I've made a mix of slopes and rock cuts on mine.
I'll be going through my rock molds in the next while to figure out what to use on the rock work.
I finally got my wiring harness. It's pretty simple, 5 bus wires with terminal strips to ancor them to the module and conectors on each end.
The bus wires and color coded: Red and Black for track power, Blue and white for accessories (switch machines, lighting) and the green for the booster ground. I attached feeders to the track busses but since I don't have any accessories I left the others untouched.
I routed the wiring harness under the module using some wiring brackets, I did the same with the loconet cable that will tie the two UP-5's together.
With that done I went back to the scenery.
I added a bit more foam blocking and carved it with my hot wire cutter.
I'm pretty happy with how the basic land forms look so on the the next step. I also masked off the foundations for the trestle bents, these will later be painted concrete.
I covered all the hilsides with plater cloth. It's been a few years since I used the product and it never fails to inmpress me with have easy and clean the process it compares to the old paster soaked papaer towels.
I went up the The abandonned Myra Canyon section on the Kettle valley Railway a couple weeks ago and took some photos of the trestles and especially the goundwork under the trestles. What I took away was that most of the slopes or tiers between the trestle bents are just that, slopes instead of vertical rock faces. So I've made a mix of slopes and rock cuts on mine.
I'll be going through my rock molds in the next while to figure out what to use on the rock work.