No pictures on this one. Sorry, this just isn’t the exciting part.

All the track is down, all the drops are in, and they’ve been soldered to the bus wires. Yes, I said soldered. I usually use 3M suitcase connectors to hook the drop wires to the buses, but, I ran out. Fortunately, this is modular construction, which makes it easy to tilt the things up and solder away.

The first “loco,” an Atlas HO U23B chassis, ran over the whole yard with only a couple little hiccups, which were easily dealt with. Tomorrow sometime, after we clear away the snow and ice, I’ll run over to the Home Depot an pick up a couple more t-nuts and some thumb screws to use to interconnect the two halves of the yard — I’m not yet real comfortable with this whole C-clamp thing, especially since alignment is so critical on the yard ladder.

Next tricks, install all the switch controls and the throttle jacks/bus wiring. For the switch controls, I’m going to use the sprung Caboose ground throws. And, I think I have enough throttle bus wiring components on hand to get that installed in short order.

Whaddaya know? Progress indeed!