05-04-2013, 03:20 PM
I've referred earlier to the ovaloid route on my bigger peninsula that will represent either the Northeast Corridor or an electrified European (primarily German, Austrian, or Swiss) main line. I hate the wiring work I'm having to do here, but I'm making progress. The outer track of the double-track oval is now fully wired. There are crossover connections at the area illustrated with my normal US CTC-style main line, and a small engine terminal for a switcher in this area, called variously Bay City or Jaques on the timetable. Now that it's got minimal wiring, I've set up a train that takes US style freight cars onto the outer European oval and treats it, for the time being, as staging.
Here's a GP38-2 going to pick up its cars off the interchange track:
It picks up the two cars and seesaws onto the "Northeast Corridor", or maybe it's the "Geislinger Steige":
And then disappears into a tunnel, which for the time being is the staging track, although eventually it will normally operate as a separate ovaloid from the main line.
The point of these photos, again, is not to show finished parts of the layout, but to induce me to make more progress! I still need to do final leveling and ballast of the track, wire some more of the switch machines, finish wiring the inner oval and some other tracks (including a motor storage that I've mentioned in previous posts), and finally install Sommerfeldt catenary. You can see a post in the bottom photo.
Here's a GP38-2 going to pick up its cars off the interchange track:
It picks up the two cars and seesaws onto the "Northeast Corridor", or maybe it's the "Geislinger Steige":
And then disappears into a tunnel, which for the time being is the staging track, although eventually it will normally operate as a separate ovaloid from the main line.
The point of these photos, again, is not to show finished parts of the layout, but to induce me to make more progress! I still need to do final leveling and ballast of the track, wire some more of the switch machines, finish wiring the inner oval and some other tracks (including a motor storage that I've mentioned in previous posts), and finally install Sommerfeldt catenary. You can see a post in the bottom photo.