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Category Archives: Track Work
Creating and Crossing Lutgens Creek – Part Two
In the last installment about Lutgens Creek I had created the creek bed and painted it tan. The next step was to paint the bottom of the creek bed a darker color and then shade the sides a little. I … Continue reading
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Installing Turnout Controls
I spent some time trying to determine the best way to throw the turnouts on my layout, as you can see in this blog post. After I determined that I was going to use the BullFrog turnout controls I ordered … Continue reading
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Turnout Control – Sorted!
I’ve been mulling over the issue of how to throw the turnouts on my layout for a while now. I bought a BullFrog controller a while back to test but I was disappointed because it wasn’t working very well. It … Continue reading
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More track work, and wiring!
The last update showed turnouts that had been completed and painted. Last week I installed six of them and some more straight sections of track. I’m pretty much done with laying track until I can get the bridges sorted out … Continue reading
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July 10, 2019 Update
There hasn’t been much progress recently, mainly because we took two weeks off and rode the train across Canada. There will be posts and photos about that later on my other blog. But some progress has been made in the … Continue reading
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Hand Building A Turnout
My current track plan has about 12 turnouts (switches) in it. The quality code 83 Shinohara (no longer manufactured) and Walthers (coming soon) turnouts cost about $25-$30 each, even on eBay. That’s a lot of cheddar for turnouts. (About $300 … Continue reading
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