{"id":365,"date":"2020-05-19T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2020-05-19T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T03:13:20","slug":"the-kato-test-track-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/the-kato-test-track-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kato Test Track project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Denver&#8217;s RailRoad&#8217;s cannot be put back together again before December at the earliest the Kato Test Track, described in my 20th May 2019 Blog post, is alive and well and after a quick rub with a Peco track cleaning block I was able to run a locomotive around the loop.<\/p>\n<p>So as I have 6 months with no activity on the main layout I have decided to look to see if I can extend the layout into a workable railroad. The following photos show the layout as it is today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-366 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2704s-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2704s-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2704s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_2704s.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-367 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kato-Testrack-05143s-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kato-Testrack-05143s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kato-Testrack-05143s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kato-Testrack-05143s-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Kato-Testrack-05143s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The original trackplan, drawn in Anyrail and built as per the above photos, looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-371 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Original-Track-Plan-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Original-Track-Plan-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Original-Track-Plan-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Original-Track-Plan-1024x426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Original-Track-Plan.jpg 1369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Denver&#8217;s RailRoad&#8217;s cannot be put back together again before December at the earliest the Kato Test Track, described in my 20th May 2019 Blog post, is alive and well and after a quick rub with a Peco track cleaning block I was able to run a locomotive around the loop. So as I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}