Construction Gerber Fascia Complete All those dangling blocks of wood with slide switches mounted are now installed for Gerber…GaryApril 25, 2024
Construction Long Pause It is scary to look at the calendar and blog and realize I have not…GaryApril 20, 2024
Electrical Yard Control with Arduino I now have all my newer T1300 throttles at the expense of the older ones. …GaryJanuary 7, 2024
Electrical First Time Running! All the throw rods were clipped off that extended too far. I spent a good…GaryJanuary 5, 2024
Electrical I’m Back – Wiring Gerber Tortoises You may have thought I gave up! Busy doing other things - trip to California…GaryJanuary 4, 2024
Electrical Tortoises for Gerber 61 Tortoises have been installed in Gerber but not wired. These came from my previous…GaryOctober 25, 2023
Electrical Feeders for Gerber All the feeders have been installed for Gerber using 22-gauge wire. The red and white…GaryOctober 20, 2023
Track Redding Track-laying Finished All track in Redding is done. An additional track was added next to the wall…GaryOctober 8, 2023
Track Gerber Yard Modifications and Redding I finished installing 6 new switches and moving 2 more for the Gerber yard modifications. …GaryOctober 5, 2023
Operations Gerber Yard Modifications I opened my layout up for the LDSIG during the National NMRA Convention in Dallas…GarySeptember 26, 2023
Track Back to Work I'm finally back to working on the layout and posting. A lot of August entailed…GarySeptember 24, 2023
Scenery Semi-Finished Scene Labels were temporarily affixed. The valance has an industry chart. The finished one will indicate…GaryAugust 7, 2023
Scenery Grass and Fascia My spray bottles arrived. One I used for larger areas in the past was reordered…GaryAugust 1, 2023
Scenery Dirt and Gravel A base coat of real dirt was applied using a kitchen strainer. I had containers…GaryJuly 25, 2023
Electrical Phones & DCC I started installing Tortoises in Proberta. I had hoped to use the same throw wire…GaryJuly 24, 2023
Scenery Backdrop The foam hills have been covered with out-of-date medical plaster gauze. I took a few…GaryJuly 16, 2023
Scenery Starting Scenery and Feeders My goal is to have one 35' scene done for Proberta by mid-August. I started…GaryJuly 4, 2023
Construction Benchwork Finally Complete The benchwork that connect the swing gate at the door was finished today. That completes…GaryJune 30, 2023
Track Two More Towns Complete – Pause in Laying Track All the trackwork is in for Anderson and Girvan (Towns 5 & 6.) I still…GaryJune 29, 2023
Track Cottonwood Complete An eleven hour work day saw the completion of Cottonwood, town #4. There is not…GaryJune 16, 2023