Other than that I have finally cut, fitted and pinned all the track in place. Next job is to solder dropper wires onto the straight sections (I've already done the DCC dropper-link conversions on all 10 points) and then straight connecting things up to some sort of bus main.
Whilst I await delivery of my Octopus III from Tam Valley Depot in San Diego, CA., I started thinking about where I'm going to put all the buttons and indicators for controlling the points. This naturally lead to some armchair modelling on the laptop to create a control panel overlay. As I know next to nothing about how real railways work it's guesswork coupled with artistic licence. Well, it makes sense to me!
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