Reker1000000 Posted September 2, 2022 Posted September 2, 2022 Hello EB, Just a quick post about Layout 9, which I just posted Part 1 of to YouTube. I actually designed this in BlueBrick before building it physically, which was quite fun and allowed me to finalize the design without having to rebuild the track after it was set up. Part 1 features 7740, 7750, 7810 (motorized with 7865), and 7820. Also, I found a way not only to put the weights in the front and back of 7810 (previously I had them both in the back which made it back-heavy and it would detail going over curves too fast), but also add lights to the front! It's not the prettiest solution as the light brick is partially exposed, but I'll take that if it has lights. The layout has a long passing line and a complex switchyard, which I put a lot of thought into. It has 2 stub-end sidings, each secured by a signal, and a decoupling area where engines can deposit wagons to be picked up and then drive to the stub-end sidings. Remote shunting is so cool... I added some custom buffers to the ends of each track that has no connection on one end. At some point I'll order parts for nicer buffers based off of 7777 but for now these ones will do. I installed lights in both stations (7740's platform has custom double light posts) and the control tower for 7866, which look good at night (hint: there will be a video of the layout at night). This might be the first time that I actually did good cable management, you can see that I installed custom "brackets" on the near side of the layout to hold all of the extra cable, as I use the original ones which are almost always not the right length- either too long and there's extra, or too short and I have to extend it with a spare cable (and then there's extra). Some of those brackets are stuffed full of cables since I just ran the extra ones up and down the row of brackets... cabling was definitely the most time-intensive part of the layout but I think the final result looks much better than having a bunch of extra wires all over the layout, so I will probably do this more in the future. I'll update this thread when I upload more videos about Layout 9. Without further talk, here is part 1- I hope you enjoy! Quote
Reker1000000 Posted September 9, 2022 Author Posted September 9, 2022 Slightly dead topic, but part 2 is out now, featuring 7730 and 7745 with 7810 + 7865. Quote
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