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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #270 on: October 30, 2020, 08:43:51 PM »
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First rails went down today.



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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #271 on: October 30, 2020, 10:19:37 PM »
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Quote from: Dave V on October 30, 2020, 05:59:15 PM
That’s because I had been lazy. I was simply linking to my public Facebook page for the layout. Facebook likes to change image URLs at random. So today I sat down and uploaded all of them to my Railwire gallery.

I figured it was just me because nobody else commented on it.  And they showed up if I right-clicked and told Firefox to open in a new tab or windows.
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #272 on: November 02, 2020, 07:28:18 PM »
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The track is all in for the lower level.  Splicing the ME code 55 bridge track into the Peco pseudo-55 turned out to be remarkably easy.  Per your recommendations I simply ground away the lower web of the Peco rail and the joiners slip right on!

Now I'm just wiring everything up.  Plenty of feeders.  Plus all the sidings (the two parallel tracks and the three yard tracks) are powered independently using rocker switches on the front of the layout.  I'm running DC for this rather than DCC and the ability to store extra locomotives and whole trains during a show was a key design parameter.

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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #273 on: November 04, 2020, 11:12:26 AM »
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Lower level track is all in and all wired (Peco code 55).  Two segments of Micro Engineering code 55 bridge track are spliced in where bridges will later be installed after the foam beneath is excavated.

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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #274 on: November 04, 2020, 12:20:56 PM »
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #275 on: November 04, 2020, 03:24:09 PM »
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Dave - Fun fact about soldering your power leads to Peco code 55 track... You can use the tip of an exacto#11 to tease the plastic out of the “buried” lower rail web allowing you to solder the lead to the lower part of the rail web instead of the upper part. That way, when you ballast, the lead becomes almost invisible.
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #276 on: November 04, 2020, 05:52:55 PM »
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Quote from: CRL on November 04, 2020, 03:24:09 PM
Dave - Fun fact about soldering your power leads to Peco code 55 track... You can use the tip of an exacto#11 to tease the plastic out of the “buried” lower rail web allowing you to solder the lead to the lower part of the rail web instead of the upper part. That way, when you ballast, the lead becomes almost invisible.

Yep - that and burying the rail joiners that grip only the bottom piece of rail web in ballast are 2 big pluses of Peco code 55.

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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #277 on: November 04, 2020, 07:12:41 PM »
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Quote from: CRL on November 04, 2020, 03:24:09 PM
Dave - Fun fact about soldering your power leads to Peco code 55 track... You can use the tip of an exacto#11 to tease the plastic out of the “buried” lower rail web allowing you to solder the lead to the lower part of the rail web instead of the upper part. That way, when you ballast, the lead becomes almost invisible.

Wow, thanks for the tip!  Since I have an entire second loop to wire, I plan to try that!
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #278 on: November 04, 2020, 10:05:52 PM »
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Dave - you seem to be making very fast progress.  Thanks for the updates!
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #279 on: November 05, 2020, 07:30:27 PM »
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Quote from: Dave V on November 04, 2020, 12:20:56 PM
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Where do I get that coffee cup!!!  Link please!!

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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #280 on: November 05, 2020, 08:02:13 PM »
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Quote from: dcarrell8 on November 05, 2020, 07:30:27 PM
Where do I get that coffee cup!!!  Link please!!

~Dennis

You can get it all if you read this thread:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=50341.0
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #281 on: November 05, 2020, 08:23:27 PM »
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Quote from: Dave V on November 05, 2020, 08:02:13 PM
You can get it all if you read this thread:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=50341.0

It's on it's way!! LOL Thanks!!
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #282 on: November 10, 2020, 10:56:11 AM »
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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #283 on: November 13, 2020, 07:18:32 AM »
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This guy: Am I a joke to you?

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Re: Colorado Midland in N scale 2.0
« Reply #284 on: November 13, 2020, 07:53:00 AM »
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Holy crap, that thing is a beast!!!
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