Power distribution via new track feeder Bus

[JCoiron]

Starting at the revised Turner City area, I am replacing the old existing spliced (sometimes redundant) runs of "bird nest" wiring with a new track feeder system more compatible with DCC (described in recent issues of Model Railroader).

This new system will includes a 10 GA. solid gauge black wire representing the "common" return (common-ground for the present DC system) and smaller sections of white wire representing each existing "block of track" under the layout. 20-24 GA. feeder wires are soldered to these larger wires to the track every 3'.

This work is almost complete in the Turner City orb which represents about 15-20% of the layout and will make trouble shooting and adding power feeders much easier when needed. The existing DC system is using this new power distribution method in certain area and the wiring now looks so much neater/simple.  Until the entire layout is transformed this way, the original DC power rotaries & toggles switch leads are temporally soldered to the white "block of track" wires.

We have a ways to go!!!!