{"id":847,"date":"2026-02-18T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/?p=847"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:16:38","slug":"february-2026-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/18\/february-2026-update\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2026 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All the track for CB&Q 23rd St. shops and the Atlas turntable installed. Also the East Denver Belt Line trackage, UP Pulman Shops and the UP Wynkoop Street trackage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have installed the first of the Megapoints Controllers (MPC) circuit boards and have wired 9 of the Kato point (aka turnout) motors. These are activated by a pushbutton connected to the MPC board. Once wired up and tested I will install the DUT Control Panel which will make activating the pushbuttons easy and the installation of LED lights to indicate the direction of the points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo shows, from left to right:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The screw connections to my Kato turnouts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The 4 Kato MPC turnout control boards and the main controller board at the bottom<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The 24volt 6amp power supply and the BUS power board<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    These photos show the MPC controller board display (left) and one of the MPC Kato control boards (right) on my laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    All the track for CB&Q 23rd St. shops and the Atlas turntable installed. Also the East Denver Belt Line trackage, UP Pulman Shops and the UP Wynkoop Street trackage. I have installed the first of the Megapoints Controllers (MPC) circuit boards and have wired 9 of the Kato point (aka turnout) motors. These are activated […]<\/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-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denversrailroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}