I have now soldered the connections from the socket on the back edge of baseboard 2 to the power bus and linked the new track which links the scenic section to the fiddleyard, see photograph below.

Before power was connected the wiring was checked out using the buzzer feature of my multimeter, to make sure that no shorts exist between North – black and South – red.

I have now solved the problem of getting the guards van around the fiddleyard curve without it derailing. The solution was to improve the flexibility of the coupling. The previous chassis was produced by doing a cut and shut on the original Farish chassis. I have now replaced it with a 15 foot Peco chassis, which has been reduced in length using cut and shut to 10 foot length.

The first photograph shows the train approaching the fiddleyard curve and the second shows the train about to leave it.

Julie