Building A Shelf For The Command Station...Part 1

While I am in a holding pattern for new track pieces to arrive and some extension wiring I thought it was a good time to start on a shelf for my command station.

As I mentioned in my previous post, the plan is to run DCC with the ability to also run DC. I am keeping the KATO electrical turnouts on the KATO Turnout Control Switch’s and they need to be powered by the KATO Power Pack (or DC Converter) and then for my DCC I will be running a NCE Power Cab. My plan is just to be able to unplug one command station and plug in the other when I want to switch from DCC to DC. This way when we get a new DC engine and we do not have the DCC chip yet, we can still give it a test run.

I had some 1x4 left over from making the wood blocks for the legs and another piece of 1x8 left over from another project, so I screwed the two together and got my command station shelf.

Once I get all the wiring completed and run through the bar, I will be painting the command station shelf for Part 2.

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