Test track testing

Posted byTrevorPosted in7mm GWR equipment, DCC, Wiring, and Sound, Great Western Railway in 7mm scale, Video, Workshop

I’ve been looking for motivation lately, and I decided to build a new test track for the workshop. I won’t go into details about this project except to say that my previous test track was not sufficient – what with being a three-foot-long set of rails pinned to a plank and set upon the bar in the crew lounge portion of the basement. It wasn’t long enough, the lighting was poor – and it took up space on the bar!

Here are a couple of short videos of models running on the new test track, which is more than 10 feet long and lit with an LED strip. I’m still finishing the wiring and have some other things to do before calling it “complete”. But I was able to test the test track with some jumpers…

Great Western Railway 3011 – “Greyhound”. This is a 7mm Dean Single from Lee Marsh Model Company – and I think it’s beautiful.
Another Lee Marsh Model Company gem, GWR 2537 is a 7mm Dean Goods, and also beautiful.

Compare this to my bar-top location (which you can see in a video in this post), and you’ll appreciate why I had to build something better.

Plus, I can now use the bar as intended: Cheers!

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Lifelong model railway enthusiast and retired amateur shepherd who trained a border collie to work sheep. Professional writer and editor, with some podcasting and Internet TV presenting work thrown in for good measure.