The 41st National Narrow Gauge Convention will be held in Hickory, NC from September 1 through September 4, 2021. As my layout is on the Layout Tour for the Convention, this has provided a deadline to bring the layout to a reasonably complete appearance. Although I have been hosting operating sessions on the layout as it has developed, I have recently achieved the notable milestone that all of the benchwork, trackwork, and wiring have been completed!
Statistics can be entertaining, so here are a few for the layout:
1. Track - 937 feet of Micro-Engineering Code 55 Flex-Track
2. Turnouts - 126, 8 of which are stub turnouts (on the Enterprise Branch).
3. Tortoise Switch Machines - 118
4. Servo Switch Machines - 8 (on the Enterprise Branch)
5. One NCE Command Station
6. Radio Base Unit - 1
7. Two NCE boosters
8. 26 UTP fascia-mounted panels
9. NCE Cab bus - 254 feet
10. Power Districts - 8
11. PSX Circuit breakers - 8
12. Reversing Sections - 6
13. PSX-AR Auto Reversers - 2
14. OG-AR Auto Reversers - 4
Scenery has also been progressing on the layout, and my wife, Patty, has been making trees while I have been working on track and wiring. To date, she has made about 650 trees, which are now beginning to be distributed among the more completed scenes.
Patty and I hope that you will join us for the Narrow Gauge Convention in just a few short weeks!
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