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Western Thunderer
First track panel coming on, with third rail in place, and the dropper wires starting to sprout. Each track panel requires a feed, so whilst the third rail only requires one feed, each setrack panel requires a feed, albeit the same polarity.
A quick reminder that I'm using setrack panels, because you can't glue the chairs to peco flexitrack. Apparently Peco's technical advice bureau has previously confirmed this.
You may notice two slits near the frog in the pic below, this is so that I can switch the current from outside rail to centre rail on the point blade, giving current continuity on the centre rail as the loco goes through the turnout. Had a hairy moment cutting these slits when it looked like the collector spoons on my 08 were going to create a short. Solved by making sure the additional centre rails were the same height as the rail height using plastikard packing.
Must admit it doesn't look quite as weird as I thought, but suspect that maybe because I grew up going to London on the tube.
A quick reminder that I'm using setrack panels, because you can't glue the chairs to peco flexitrack. Apparently Peco's technical advice bureau has previously confirmed this.
You may notice two slits near the frog in the pic below, this is so that I can switch the current from outside rail to centre rail on the point blade, giving current continuity on the centre rail as the loco goes through the turnout. Had a hairy moment cutting these slits when it looked like the collector spoons on my 08 were going to create a short. Solved by making sure the additional centre rails were the same height as the rail height using plastikard packing.
Must admit it doesn't look quite as weird as I thought, but suspect that maybe because I grew up going to London on the tube.
