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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Michigan City Swap Meet...Recap

Now that I am ready to start to add some buildings and terrain to my layout I decided to hit up a swap meet in Michigan City, IN today to see if I can get lucky. My goal was to mainly shop for N scale buildings first, then anything that I could find that was C&NW related. Majority of the vedors that were on hand were selling HO scale and Lionel. I knew that getting into N scale I would have a harder time finding items, but I really do like the look of N scale over HO, I am probably in the minority but I feel N scale actually has more detail than HO scale. I did an initial pass of all the vendor tables and did find two C&NW boxcars along with a N scale Freight Depot building all for $20, so I was pretty happy so far. I decided to go and double back now and search more throughly to see if I could find anything else. I cam across a C&NW gondola car, another N scale Soda Shoppe building, then buried under a lot of boxes, I found a KATO Chicago METRA Gallery Bi-Level Commute

Scenery: December 2017 WIP (City and Park)

It has been aboout three weeks since my last update and things are moving along on my little N Scale layout. The first week in December I had my son visiting from out of town so not much was accomplished, then doing scenery work takes a lot of time. Waiting for paint to dry, waiting for glue to dry and so on. So here is a litte update on how things are going with my City and Park. It is still all a work in progress, and it will probably still be awhile before I get to any actual buildings. I am working on the areas where the building will go first, then the actual buildings.

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