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….......................... .--- Finished the 5v & 12v Buss wiring (almost) ---

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I have a friend (Shawn) here that I call my 'Blanding, UT son' and I'm his kind-of 'Blanding, UT dad'. I don't have a son and he has a good dad but his dad doesn't live here so I'm kind of his dad here. I've known him since he was a teenager when he got to know me since he was interested in cars. We help each other when needed and he is in his mid 30's with a wife and 2 kids and teaches at the local college in their trucking CDL license program.

He and his brother Alex were by this past week and I had them run some sound locos on the test track with a WiFi throttle and they got hooked and said they would be back. Today he came by and helped me put in the last of the 12v buss wiring that is under the layout and pretty much directly under the upper level. I'll solder drops to the track there and drop them straight down to the buss we installed today.

First though a few pictures of the perimeter buss that I finished a few days ago. I also showed where some of the power districts are. I have boosters/circuit breakers for eight but only have seven planned presently.

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I roll my test track out from under the layout when I want to use it or program a decoder and back under when finished with it. Quite easy since it is on rollers. The DCC-EX Command Station is also on the rolling station with the test track and connects to the layout with a cord that allows me to roll all of it in and out. The DCC signal from the command station goes through the cord to Tam Valley boosters and circuit breakers and on to the track power districts. This has worked great.

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…............. Next is the last of the 12v buss system. Well I still need to maybe have a buss around the track elevator which will be Power District #6.

I ripped some leftover 1/2” CDX plywood into 2” wide strips and we made up the buss at the workstation in a few minutes.

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These won't be as easy to solder track drops to as the buss on the side of the layout but shouldn't be that hard to work with either. Stripping the drop, wrapping it around the buss wire and soldering goes quickly and I'm a fan of soldered connection over using a connector. If one doesn't like the idea of the perimeter buss I've mainly used this could be an alternative approach under the layout near the middle or the edge of the layout.

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Nice to have all the buss wiring in. Back to wiring turnouts, servos and laying cork and track along with my N scale DD35A and B project.

A link to this whole build ( HERE ).

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