<Written December 2012>
Christmas saw a lot of running of the trains, but not much work on the layout. I played around some more on the digital control of the trains, managing to blow up a few expensive components, and learned how to program routes on the IB Switch. Now, for example, I can hit one button on the IB Control and both switches on the outer-to-inner track crossover throw in sequence, and I can even have signals go from green-green to green-yellow to show the engineer he has to slow down at the same time. I also hooked up one of my semaphore signals and added a Marklin slow-down module to it. Now, when my BR55 comes around the corner into the Hoechst station, it begins to slow down when the signal is red, rolling gently to a stop in front of the signal. The gentle sound of a steam locomotive at idle continues (yes, it has a Loksound XL decoder in it) and smoke continues to churn from the stack. Amazing, at least to me.
To wrap things up for 2012, here's a short video of my BR55 pulling the boxcar train through the S-curve.
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