{"id":833,"date":"2025-07-04T00:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2025-12-29T16:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:01:56","slug":"press-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/press-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"Press: Restart!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is 15+ months since my last Blog update but hopefully I am now back on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There were a number of reasons for my apparent lack of action, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>My wife being confirmed as having Alzheimer&#8217;s disease as well as a number of other life threatening conditions with finally resulted in her heart stopping during a procedure in March this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A short in the trackwork exiting the 7 track Grand Jct. return loop. This was made more complicated than it should have been due to there being 7 tracks. If there had just been the one track troubleshooting would have been so much easier to find the fault.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Confusion with regard to the wiring of the 7 tracks. Which tracks had been wired and to which Power District.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Whilst road testing the return loop track looking for the sort it became clear that the trackwork was badly laid and needed relaying. Furthermore one half of the loop had been laid at too tight of a radius and needed extending by some 10 inches. A significant adjustment in N scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All and all the above just made it difficult to move forward. And when I did start to relay the 7 tracks it became apparent that the exercise was going to take a long time. Even now with all of the track laid, only one of the tracks is fully wired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Work completed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All 7 tracks that form the return loop have been laid and the alignment is much much better now that the minimum radius has been increased from 16\u00bd&#8221; to 22\u00bd&#8221; and the outside radius from 24&#8243; to 31\u00bc&#8221;.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The installation of a new control panel and Power District (PD zero) for just the return loop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By redoing the return loop wiring the faulty block that had caused the short quickly became apparent and has now been fixed. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I can now run a locomotive non-stop around the whole layout (except though Denver Union Terminal trackage) without a problem recurring in the same place. In other words I still have track problems but not with the 7 track return loop. The next challenge is to run a 12 car freight train without a problem and then a 6 car passenger train pulled by a 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 15+ months since my last Blog update but hopefully I am now back on track. There were a number of reasons for my apparent lack of action, including: All and all the above just made it difficult to move forward. And when I did start to relay the 7 tracks it became apparent [&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-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}