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The Wildcat Valley Railway
  • My Love of Model Railroading
  • The Layout
    • A Tour of the Layout
    • The WVR at night
  • Design
    • The Wildcat Valley RR Design Rules
    • Final Track Plan for the WVR
  • Construction
    • Benchwork is the Backbone of the Model Railroad
    • Construction of the Sawmill and Log Pond
    • Rebuilding the Tired Engine Facility
      • Scratch Built Railroad Turntable
      • A New Coaling Tower From out of the Past
    • The Hidden Staging Area
  • Systems
    • The DCC buss is the heart of the layout
    • Block Occupancy Detection on the Wildcat Valley
    • Turnout Control on the WVR
    • Layout Lighting
    • Structure Lighting
    • Using JMRI to Control Trains on the WVR
  • My AP Journey
  • Links
  • WVR Blog
    • Blog Archives
August 3, 2019Uncategorized

Turning Engines 1

I was thinking of purchasing a Walthers turntable sometime in the future. I will need two turntables for my planned layout. They […]

August 2, 2019Uncategorized

Making a Circuit Board

I got my first (of many) semaphore working last week. For my initial test, I used one of my turnout decoders to […]

July 22, 2019Uncategorized

Signal Working

Here is a You Tube video showing a test of a Tomar semaphore on my layout. The semaphore is animated by a […]

July 16, 2019Uncategorized

Turnout Control – Update

The turnout control I described in my last post was working great… That is until I subsequently added block detection to the […]

June 25, 2019Uncategorized

Turnout Control

It appears that the plan is coming together! I have successfully set up the RR-CirKits TC Mark II to output the switch […]

June 24, 2019Uncategorized

Laying Track

That’s my Mikado under power crossing the 200 foot truss bridge (sans truss) with the pink bones of a waterfall in the […]

June 19, 2019Uncategorized

Getting Organized

Organization has always been an issue for me. My wife on the other hand is very good at it, however when it […]

April 22, 2019Uncategorized

Backdrop Delima

I’ve started on some of the backdrop for the Wildcat Valley. I really think I should start at the back and work […]

April 8, 2019Uncategorized

Some Inspiration

I took a little time to visit one of the layouts on the CID April layout tour yesterday. I needed some inspiration […]

March 30, 2019Uncategorized

Valance Work and LEDs

I took a pause in laying sub-roadbed for the WVR to begin work on the valance for the mountain “helix” this week. […]

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