Sticking with the theme of the last two days, the new Gmeinder got a bit of workout this afternoon!

The coaching stock is:

1. AB 1 - Ramsau/Hippach
2. AB 2 - Uderns
3. B 28 - Zell am Ziller (Buffet Coach)
4. B 13 - Mayrhofen
5. B 20 - Asschau
6. B 12 - Ried
7. B 29 - Fasslwagen (Barrel Wagon)
8. F 52 - Generator Van
9. B4ip 30 - Bogie coach
10. Cism 480 - DR 3rd
11. BCism 259 - DR 2nd/3rd
12. Pwism 811- DR Luggage van
13. Bi/s 3641-3 - OBB Pinzgauerbahn "mit Herz"
14. Gwk/s - ZB Zillertaler Bier van

All this is no problem and takes up more than half the loop of the radius three test track....

Here is a shot of the 12 coach consist:

A Roco Mh 6 is able to haul the same train, although it does appear to slip occasionally. For the DR HF 110, 14 coaches was a bit much! Slipping quite considerably, but still dragging it around the test loop. Reducing the train down to 8 coaches made that one happy.

Now that I have a total of three HF 110's I wonder if I chipped them all, and messed around with the couplings maybe I could get them to triple head a massive train?

Anyway all this playing was done after some serious work underneath the base board. After the I started drilling the holes for the switch consoles (PECO plastic ones), I realised that they were ending up right on top of one the mounting plates of the table's legs, as they were simply screwed onto the bottom of the board. After having toyed with several ways of getting around it I decided to mount the plates on the wooden outer frame. However this left one corner of the plate unsupported, hence the pieces of wood. Today I added the little brackets so they stay in place.

See picture here:

Also in that picture you can see the two power feeds into the layout, on the left is the track power (the layout is DCC), on the right the auxiliary power for the points. The track power simply loops around the outside with specific spots where insulation displacement connectors will be used to distribute the power. The cable to the right needs to go to the CDU which I have yet to mount. Currently I have a Gaugemaster unit, but I might trade it for a PECO unit as that is cased!

All that work makes you hungry!