Photo 41 Joe
Waldeck seals the new bench work
at Walt Main in preparation for
track installation.
Photo 42 Overhead
photo shows bench work and bridge
construction at Walt. The rail
under the bridge is the trolley
line which is also under
construction.
Photo 43 Steve
Foglio power sands the homabed
roadbed to facilitate the
installation of the new diamonds.
Rail
Superintendent Larry Fries is
adjusting scenery using a state
of the art power shovel. This
will allow the proper spacing for
the placement of the mainline and
siding at Walt.
Photo 45 Illinois
Central 's City of New Orleans is
the first train to occupy the new
mainline trackage and bridge work
at Walt.
Photo 46 Valley
Model Railroaders hit the road
for Wheaton, IL. The occasion is
the May 2009 Great Midwest Train
Show.
Photo 47
A young visitor operates a local
freight at the Great Midwest
Train Show using a wireless DCC
controller.
Photo 48 .
Photo 49
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Photo 50 These
are some of the control circuit
boards for running the signals
and switch motors on the layout.
The layout will have full CTC
control in future. The installed
signals are presently running in
APB (Automatic Permissive Block)
mode and the present switch
motors can be thrown from a
computer or from the DCC system.
To see more about the layout
operations visit the Operating
Rule Page.
