Hi everybody, as funds have suddenly allowed me to make some progress on my N gauge layout, I decided to make a topic on here to get a few tips and tricks. Firstly, a bit of background info on the layout. The baseboard was originally constructed a few years ago, when I was around 10 ish for me to nail some track to and have an attempt at making a layout. Well long story short 8 years later and I'm finally making it happen thanks to funds becoming available. I've had about 3 starts and failures of making it but I've finally settled on a track plan, wanting to have around second radius curves I opted for just a single track around to operate small locos on. It's not meant to be prototypical at all, just somewhere I can run a few locos about with some decent-ish scenery. The layout is DCC controlled with a couple of engines recently being sound fitted. This brings me nicely onto why I'm about to rip the points up. The layout currently has insulfrog points, however due to my recent sound conversions and acquisition of a small farish pannier, I have decided to change the points to electrofrog as I've had some short circuiting when some of the engines go over the points I do not want this to happen with my sound locos and fry them. The reason the layout has insulfrogs at the moment is due to my lack of confidence with electrical wiring and to be honest not really understanding how electrofrogs work, but now after a bit of research on the benefits and realising how they work, I thought that the switch would be a benefit to the layout. It's a bit of a pain I've decided to do this now as I've just weathered the track, however I'm sure the change will be worth it. The buildings are either Hornby lyddle end or metcalfe kits I've built over the years
Thank you for reading and I'm very open to any tips or tricks you may have!