Interim Project Status Update #1

Progress was a bit piecemeal after the last big day. I managed to get the track bed in place and installed the servos…
Progress was a bit piecemeal after the last big day. I managed to get the track bed in place and installed the servos…
After a long time, the work on the new layout finally began almost a year ago.
This post should have appeared before the last one, chronologically. However, when I got the new loco and tested my work, I was so stoked that things were working and I was making visible progress, that I just had to fire off a quick post about it.
When I first played around with point motors not too long ago, I came across some differences between the Peco and Hornby motors I used, and at the time I thought that I wouldn't mind using the Peco motors (and therefore Peco points) throughout my layout.
When, as a kid, I was mucking around with my TT-scale setup, there were precisely two kinds of points (or turnouts) you could buy: manual, and motorised. The motorised points were strictly surface-mounted, there was nothing else, at least not in that scale and from the available suppliers.
If there's one thing I've learned in a rather short time when it comes to model railways, it's that it is probably not the best idea to buy mixed track.