42ft of Track Later

Well I finally got around to laying all of the cork-bed and track. I'm actually pretty pleased with how it went. I ended up using a lot of pre-formed "snap track" for the curves and flex track for the straighter sections. This made my curves a lot more predictable, but I'm kind of wishing now that I used flex track more, as using the snap track everywhere means a lot of joints in the loop.

You'll notice there are some spurs off of the turn table that are missing, but these are to go inside the round-house which I have yet to get. Once the round-house is in place, then the track can be laid inside it.

I've also got all of the switch motors and wires in place, its just a matter of connecting up all the wires to something useful. I've got about 6 feeds from the track to underneath the table where I'll run around a 14- or 12- gauge wire for track bus. Copper wire makes a much better conductor than coated nickel track, so feeding the in multiple places from a copper bus should make the power distribution on the layout much more even.

Anyway, lots of wiring and soldering to do, especially on the control panel...