I thought I had all the crossing problems solved, but found that freight car truck journal boxes were hitting high spots on some of the crossings that I had reworked. Now I will. The grandkids found one and I found the other. They're having an overnight and will work on the trains with me tomorrow.
The kids said if I just let them keep hitting it, it will eventually wear away enough to clear. That's not how I do things. I'll fix it.
I think I figured out the Block 11/20 interaction problem. After looking at the actual track, the diagram on the control panel and the original RRTrack plan, I don't think I put an insulator between those two blocks. It's one block with two controlling DPDTs. When they're together it's no problem. When they're opposing, If one throttle's off, the voltage feeds back through the line to the off channel and energizes it. The fix. I make an insulating cut someplace to isolate them.
The Yellow squares with the X in them is the insulator. Notice that between 11 and 20 you don't see one on the diagram or track plan (two circle bulls eyes are the insulated joints). I hadn't noticed this problem before since I was usually running the entire inner loop set on one throttle and outer on another. In this one instance I was running just the inner loop and just block 11 to test the Allegheny and saw voltage on both channels. I'll double check this tomorrow and make the gap if necessary. I really don't know how this one slipped through.
I put up three train shelves today and will have the remaining two up tomorrow. The 1 X 4s I bought have a lot of twist in them. So much so that one end of the shelves tilts inwards and the other tilts out. It's actually bending the angle brackets. But the trains are falling off. I tested it.
