Trackwork improvements - 2 ways to look at it

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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A BUSS is a kiss or a brand of fuse.

A BUS is a vehicle used to transport something.
It could have rubber tires, run on a road, and carry people,
or it could be a copper wire and carry electricity,
or it could sit on the top of a missile and carry nuclear warheads.

LION uses 12 or 14 ga solid wire for the bus of him, and 22 ga cat 3 wire for feeders, switches, signals, relays, and detection equipment.

LION uses 25 pr cat3 cable for the distribution of him.

LION uses lots and lots of wire, for him has 14 miles of track 50 tortii, and hundreds of signals. Him also has thousands of platform lights.

Here is relay room of LION:

Here is Network Interface of LION before the rest of the connections were added.

ROAR

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I joined Scale Rails of Southwest Florida when I was 14. Up until then I thought derailments were part of model railroading. Then I saw lots of layouts that were operating derailment free.

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From that point on, I have taken trackwork very seriously. All five of my home layouts have not had trouble with trackwork, and the new one better be just as good.

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I really sweat the details when it comes to benchwork, trackwork, and wiring. All that stuff is too hard to fix after the fact.

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-Kevin

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