{"id":526,"date":"2015-02-10T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:02:27","slug":"a-bit-o-work-a-bit-o-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2015\/02\/10\/a-bit-o-work-a-bit-o-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit o’ Work, a Bit o’ Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I posted an update of layout construction progress<\/a> and I mentioned several activities scheduled for this month.\u00a0 So, starting with the first of those scheduled activities, I attended the (3rd annual) Train Day at the Library in Baton Rouge.\u00a0 This years show surpassed last years (which had surpassed the first year).\u00a0 Forrest Becht<\/a> and the folks who are involved in planning and hosting the show are really listening to the feedback provided by the visitors and have made the appropriate changes to reflect that.\u00a0 As a result, (in my opinion) the show has enjoyed considerable improvement in the few short years of its existence.\u00a0 Now this isn’t a large show, but rather a small gathering at a local library.\u00a0 There is a large and very nice photo exhibition of railroad subjects, tables and cases of models are displayed, and several local and regional organizations have a presence with plenty of hand-out literature.\u00a0 There are on-going slide shows throughout the day, and several small operating train layouts (three rail and some N scale).\u00a0 It’s fun and it’s free.\u00a0 Can’t beat that.<\/p>\n

Next week Ron Findley and I are heading over to Hattiesburg, Mississippi for the annual banquet of the Mississippi Great Southern Chapter<\/a> of the NRHS.\u00a0 Their banquet is always well attended, with lots of displays, sales tables, a good speaker and plenty of great food.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to that.<\/p>\n

Layout activity: I’ve completed the refurbishing and wiring up of 25 Tortoise switch motors and have even installed the first one.\u00a0 I need to install 18 more to get all the switches presently installed operational.\u00a0 I also completed the hard-wired aspects of my cab bus (throttle bus).\u00a0 I ended up relocating the DCC command station to the middle booster location since this was electrically central to the layout.\u00a0 This has reduced my longest cab bus run by nearly half.\u00a0 As I add fascia to the layout, along with throttle plug-in points, I will only have to daisy-chain from point to point using pre-made data cables…nice and clean.<\/p>\n

I should be getting back to benchwork and trackage this spring.\u00a0 I haven’t done any of that since last October and I’m anxious to get back to it.\u00a0 I haven’t added any new photos to the main website since early January since all I’ve been doing has either been done on the workbench or beneath the layout.\u00a0 However the photos on the site do show the latest in the benchwork progression.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in coming by for a visit, just drop a line and we’ll set it up.<\/p>\n

-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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