[UPDATE 2.20.21]
So, I finished placing all the track this afternoon. Finally! No tracks are screwed into the cork yet. Felt a sense of relief that I was getting somewhere, although there were many times when having to reach up from the ladder and connecting track with my eyes at ground dirt level 😊 it was very frustrating and led to wish that I had chosen FasTrack with its plug and play capabilities instead of fighting with the Atlas rail joiners. (This fact was later confirmed when I would be just rolling the 4 Tri-Rail Bombardier coaches back on forth with my hand on how LOUD it was. Loud is all the same loud to my wife and if I knew it was going to be this loud, I would have gone with FasTrack, but I digress…)
Still some hard work to be done, going round the loop to try to determine kinks and make sure the track separations from wall, each other and edge of death are all consistent, and place a few screws around the track to keep it that way.
I plan on running 2 sets of separate wires (one for each track) to each of the 4 power drop points which I estimate will be over 150 feet in wire in total.
Around the edge of the wall, I’m going to install remote control LED lighting strips (https://lightstrips.co/products/led-light-strips) to illuminate the ceiling area. Those lanterns being used in construction are nice, but no fun when I have to go up the ladder to turn them off when it’s bedtime.
But that will take time. After taking over a year and half to get to this stage I wanted to see something run tonight! Even if with only temporary wiring. So, I attached one corner of the O-72 outside track to a MTH DCS Remote Commander just to see my Tri-Rail consist run until the inevitable power loss made it stop. Then I would just run it back and forth between whatever those two dead spot areas would be.
Here are some photos. You’ll notice that the GP40 is not illuminated which is another problem that I will ask on the MTH Technical Forum 
