Earthquake at Roseton

There was a small change in Roseton this weekend. The two modules making up the main section of Roseton were split apart and a small module was installed between these modules. This was done to allow the addition of another spur line to service Reg's Fine Leathers. Beside the new spur, this change also lenghten the round around tracks by another car length.

Crews were also busy installing wheel stops at all industries.

Junction

This is a view of Junction from another angle.

Junction

This is a view of Junction from the North.
The white building is Mama's Pasta and the other large building is Hardwood Furniture Co.

Looking East to Dogwood Yard

This is a view of the Dogwood Yard from Blue Circle Flour

East of Dogwood Yard

This is a view east of the Dogwood Yard, with Marc's Printing on the side and Black Cat Industries in the background.

West of Dogwood

This is a picture of the west end of the Dogwood Yard. With Blue Circle Flour in the back ground. The other large building are in Junction and will be covered another day.

Dogwood Branch

This is a picture of the east end of the Dogwood yard That is Marc' Printing on the side.

WRS S4

This is another shot from the paint shop

WRS History

This version of the WRS is made up modules that I displayed with the UMG. Instead of letting these modules collect dust in my basement, I chose to set them up to form a small switching layout.

The object is to allow me to develop a few things, before the larger version of the WRS is build. One of these things is switching operations. I plan to work with a couple different methods of card forwarding and train scheduling methods, to see which one I want to develop for the larger layout. Another is to spend more time working with the "Darkside" control system so I can better understand what it can do. Just using it only every three or four months, as I was doing, did not let you learn what it could do.

I am hoping to improve the scenery on the modules. There was things I would have liked to do to improve the modules, but they were taking too much of beating every time they left the basement. The same goes for the buildings, loco and rolling stock, which I am hoping also to make improvements to.

Time will tell how much of this plan happens.

WRS Engine at Paint Shop

A shot of one of the two WRS S-4 at the paint shop.

WRS & DCC

Tonight I installed two new UP5 on the layout and completed installing the other cable jacks to allow me now to plug in around the complete layout.

The WRS uses the Digitrax Chief for the command station with a PM4 to create four power zones on the layout. ( I know it over kill, but I had one on hand, so why not use it) The layout has three UP5s and one UP91 for radio control.

Handhelds for the layout are 2 DT100R, 1 UT1, 1 UT4 and 1 UT4R.

Layout Drawing

This is a layout with the Industries listed.

layout drawing

This is the layout I have setup in my basement from my UMG modules.