Thanks gents - I also think it is much more simple to run but is still fun, not just a couple of loops. Bottom line is it for fills my abilities at the moment as running any more than two trains would be a nightmare for me. I am having enough trouble watching two of them
Tonight has been a darn busy one for me. The more I watched my trains running the tracks the more annoyed I became with the rear section of track. You guessed it - "up it all came"!
So, now all of the front section of the layout has been replaced, the last portion of the inner loop leading onto the main at the rear has been replaced, almost 4' of the main track at the rear has been replaced, all of the Insulated Joiners have been removed and two of the turnouts are now gone. Not bad for two or three days work especially when at the end of the day - it ALL WORKS, not withstanding some dirty track in places
Oh, I also added some feeders to the track work at the rear. At the moment all of that is up in the air (literally) and not connected to the main bus, same as the two sets of feeders at the front of the layout at the moment.
Next job is to replace the Main Bus with 14 Gauge wire (wound together) and to connect all of the feeders. 90% of that job will be a breeze, the other 10% is going to be a nightmare due to the wiring having to run in between the bottom of the bench work for the layout and the top of my desk on which the bench work was placed. Seemed like a good idea at the time - aint hind sight a great thing
So in conclusion (for the moment) - all of the track work that needed replacing has been done and it is all running nicely with only 4 feeders providing the power to the track and three of them being down one end.
Once I have the wiring redone and have cleaned up the layout of debris and miscellaneous who knows what, I'll put up a "good video" of everything working and with two trains running so you guys know I'm not joking