{"id":593,"date":"2021-11-20T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T10:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2021-11-20T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T10:04:57","slug":"i-finally-close-the-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/20\/i-finally-close-the-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"I Finally Close the Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After laying a temporary loop of track where Denver’s North Yard should be, I finally have a complete loop of track. I can now work on completing the industry tracks, and building kits and scenery, on modules 1 and 1a. I can then operate South Denver as a switching layout. There are nine industries including Denver Ice & Cold Storage, the Denver Market & Produce Terminal (Wazee Market), the PSC Arapahoe Power Station and the PSC Gas Works, American Manganese Steel foundry, Centennial School Supply, J.I. Case (a Farm Machinery Distributor), International Harvester Co and Thomas Williams, a coal dealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I can start work on finishing the track laying for modules 2 to 5 and building Denver Union Station and the C&S Rice Yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Peco Electrofrog Scissors Crossover. Works ok with fast moving locomotives but not so good at slower speeds. It will take some time to iron out the bugs, which I think are bad electrical connections. Polarity is not a problem as I have two Tam Valley Dual frog Juicers connected. At the other end of the Denver Union Station trackage is a Kato Scissors Crossover, which works like a dream without any extra support like a Frog Juicer. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Denver Union Station trackage from the north. Only main line tracks 1 and 2 are powered at this stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The temporary loop at the north end of Denver Union Station, allowing for continuous train running and a means of bringing the passenger trains back into the station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The first time I have used suitcase connectors. Two failed to hold to the track properly. Its an easy solution if the track bus is already installed and running around the bottom of the baseboard. Screw terminals (my preference) and soldering are not an option. I am quite impressed. Will need to buy some more!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After laying a temporary loop of track where Denver’s North Yard should be, I finally have a complete loop of track. I can now work on completing the industry tracks, and building kits and scenery, on modules 1 and 1a. I can then operate South Denver as a switching layout. There are nine industries including […]<\/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-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}