How often are you spacing your feeders? I have mine 6 feet apart, and reliability is very good. More joints per X length with N scale track though, I bet… Plus on a 4x8, you can get away with having frequent feeders because the layout is relatively small.
While we’re posting roster shots, here’s mine!
From front left to rear right, WRS locomotives: GP18 #9423, GP7 #8569, SDP35 #1402 (retired), GP9m #1701 (retired), U23B #2306 (retired), GP30 #2752, L&N GP18 #902 (to become WRS 902), and CSX U23B #3243 (retired).
Individual photos of each unit are available on the WRS website if anyone wants to see a unit in more detail.
Tyler, a rough guesstimation is probably every 2-3 feet, and then some probably as close as 18 in. or less, lol. Hey, more feeders=more pwoer distribution, and also dirty track won’t be AS big of a problem (am planning to try the gleam method though).
Sawyer, cool that you got the layout up an running. Seems that your moving really quickly on that
Tyler, why are you parting the red sea (bad joke) for two new GP18s? Is there just no need for all that power? And I really like the new website!
I haven’t done anything MRR related in a while cause I’ve been so busy with everything. Frankly, sophomore sucks, because of all the work. Right now, my english teacher is being a female dog about our research paper, and it seems that my homework is multiplied by 1000. Ugh, life…
That’s nothing compared to Junior year and the classes I’m taking. We’ve had 14 days of school, and have already turned a Math Project, 2 History Papers, a Science Paper, done 2 socratic seminars in English, and have 2 Science Labs, a 2 page English thingy, and a bunch of homework due at various points this week. Put 3 Music Classes onto that and I have no timeeeeeee.
New England shortlines don’t use 1 U23B, 1 SDP35, 1 GP30, 1 GP9m, 1 GP7, and 1 GP18. A roster of 1 GP7 and 3 GP18s is much more prototypical, and similar to the Boston & Maine, whose paint scheme I am copying almost exactly except that I swapped their blue for WRS red and use a totally different lettering and logo design on the sides.
All that mismatched power is now surplus. Thanks for the kind words on the website!
In the past 16 days I’ve had 3 chem quizzes and one test, one lab, and another I’m working on, Band homework several times, a two page paper and several other large homework assignments for Theology, tons of stuff for Driver’s Ed, three papers for English (and we’re working on a 5 page research paper now), a test and a buttload of other stuff for Algebra, a two page paper, a huge packet (that took probably somwhere about 6 hours, spanning 1 week), and other various stuff for US History, a 1/2 page essay, and tons of other stuff for Spainsh.
And over the summer, I had to read Uncle Tom’s Cabin (about 450 pages) for History, The Grapes of Wrath (also about 450 pgs) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (about 100 pages) for English, and a 297- problem packet for Algebra, which took me all summer.
Next year, once I get more electives, I’ll probably take the easier classes (which I am required to take but don’t fit in my schedule now), since I’ll already have some of the required classes.
