Eureka!

After fighting with the electrical for more than 8 weeks I can finally get engines around the entire layout!  PTL!  As basically a lone wolf during construction, it was brutal hopping between under the layout and above the layout to test continuity.

After re-positioning the order of the modules, I had to switch the common side on 2 of the 4 "legs" to mate the 2 operational (and electrical) towers to "play nice". (This is a DC layout utilizing a "common rail".)

All the track is now in place but there are multiple physical locations that need significant "tuning" work. (Not to mention the 63 turnouts.) And the summer heat in the loft has not done us any favors.

I am currently returning buildings to the layout and working on scenery repair. I am also installing some plexiglass shields to cover some details that are now exposed to damage from family members coming upstairs to use the computer.

Wow, long road! Fourteen months since I "foolishly" decided to improve operations! At least there is light at the end of the tunnel. Operations in the fall? 😀

PIOMIP Continued

All the track is now in and you would think I would be able to run again.
Wrong! Somewhere along the line I have screwed up the electrical (happens when you connect different sections together in different orders: A to B to C to A became A-C-B-D-A).
I think I even blew a power pack.
I'll have to wait until I can get a second electrically minded person on site to begin testing and analyzing connections.
Electrical: 2 steps forward and 3 steps backward.

Layout progress overview:

Woodbury on left; Glassboro/Thorofare Junction ahead; new staging yards on right

Loop to gain altitude

Adding roads (1st pass):

Woodbury realignment due to peninsula

Timber Creek:

Buzby Bros. Cement spur relocated; PRSL power plant spur extended; Brooklawn circle added

Making Westville and Woodbury (see above) legs a peninsula costs about 18" of straight-away.

North Woodbury - Holloway Lumber spur modified