{"id":542,"date":"2021-08-16T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2021-10-08T01:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:22:42","slug":"finished-tracklaying-for-modules-1-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/16\/finished-tracklaying-for-modules-1-1a\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished tracklaying for Modules 1 &#038; 1a (Power District 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0287-mods-11a-track-finished-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0287-mods-11a-track-finished-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0287-mods-11a-track-finished-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0287-mods-11a-track-finished-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0287-mods-11a-track-finished-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0287-mods-11a-track-finished.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It does not look much but there is a lot of complicated track laid in these two modules. I decided to scrap the Kato test layout as it had passed its usefulness days and I will shortly lay a temporary oval of track on Module 5 so that I can have a loop to test Locos. Consequently I have reused most of the Kato turnouts and straight track on Module 1a. Speedup the tracklaying considerably. I like the simplicity of Kato turnouts. I replaced a damaged PECO scissors crossing with a Kato and was amazed to find that Kato regard the unit as just ONE turnout with a couple of wires. The PECO scissors crossing required 4 point motors and 2 expensive frog juicers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge of course is to ballast the Kato track so that it blends in with the Peco track and is not obviously &#8220;toy&#8221; looking. If I can succeed I may well use more Kato turnouts in the future. I will elaborate on my immediate track laying plans and some significant changes to Phase II in a future blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It does not look much but there is a lot of complicated track laid in these two modules. I decided to scrap the Kato test layout as it had passed its usefulness days and I will shortly lay a temporary oval of track on Module 5 so that I can have a loop to test [&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-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","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=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}