"Hi Jim, great workmanship and the lights are perfect! Miketg"
Each of the street lamps and the signal tower are fitted with a 1N4001 diode to cut the voltage down to give a warmer effect. The diode is in the common feed to each device. (Back in the day, they would have run the lights in pairs in series.) All the lamp commons and feeds come back to a bus bar which is powered by a CW80 transformer that provides all the accessory power in phase with the vintage Trainmaster V that powers the train tracks.
This equipment has been collected over the last 12 years and we are glad to be able to finally put it to work. You can see the standard gauge layout on floor to the right side.
The goal was to create a portable layout that could easily be set up for display purposes. To accomplish this, I need to provide a disconnect between the two halves of the layout. I'm still working on that, but the modular guys are using those eight wire quick trailer connectors, and that may be how it goes. Then I would need at least another person to help move it. Wife will only do so much.
Thanks to all for the comments.
