How to Electrify a railroad

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Well, Reposted for clarity, This is the mainline wiring diagram. Each different color is a different segment of Catenary. Except for the "Green" segment, all catenary wires begin and terminate by "dropping" down from a catenary pole to the appropriate level (which is between scale 19' and 22').

The wire section i will be able to hang is the "purple" wire, since i'm building the two catenary poles it anchors to. The other two poles are in the pictures built on the layout already.

Everytime you see lines extend off the "trackplan", they are reaching a pole. You can see why the 4 poles i've been working on are important, since every wire either begins or ends on one of the four poles, except for the blue one, which terminates on the other side.

The only frustrating part is going to be where the Red and Blue wires weave around. The blue wire needs a pull off to get it into allignment. There is a prototype situation for this, (discussed earlier), so i'm just going to have to bite the bullet and also do it that way. The diagram isn't super to scale, but basically the purple wire and the "pull-off" for the blue wire are the same pole, on the upper left corner.