Bangor is now open for business.

Finally got the Bangor Panel in and wired up. All towns now have local control. Opening Bangor means 4 new industries and 12 more spots. It means that three trains will have more to do and I can start up piggyback service again.

The only places with no local panels are two staging yards.

I did a thing!

I couldn't help myself. I ran across a good price on an engine that matched the paint scheme I fell in love with. I bought it. Really it is too modern for my layout but then again it is my layout. Plus I have a club I can run at.

Acadia now online

The control panel for Acadia has been installed and is working. Time to add rolling stock and change waybills for the new industries.
The wood jobs will have more work. The milk trains will have more stops. Maybe even time to bring out some passenger/commuter service.
Bangor will probably have to wait a bit just due to time before the next session.

Local Control Panel location.

I am debating putting a control panel for an upper level town on the lower level fascia. I did this on the last layout. So, for all of you that were at my last layout, was this a problem that I didn't know about? The issue here is that I can't shrink the panel size and putting it on the upper level could be somewhat in the way.
If you have thoughts on this let me know.

Katahdin is active

Local control was installed. Eight new spots and a reactivating the Wood Job out of St. Albans. All of the Wood Jobs trains will have somewhere else to go other than the paper mill. Waybills will be printed and placed out tomorrow.

Todays issues

The last weekend session had issues with the DCC tripping for a short while and then cleared up and no issues after that. Today's session had one section of track shorting, but not the whole layout. Got it narrowed down to one car with metal trucks that had been running for years with no issues. The trucks have been changed out and hope that those tripping issues are done.
One other issue was that 80% of the phones went out. Don't you just love electronics. Good news here is that we can still go back to radios if necessary. It does make it tough to continue to get the rest of the upper level ready for ops.

Rest of the updates

In all cases the track is in mechanically but not electronically at this time. I also have to make and wire up the local control panels. All of the turnouts are operable at the computer. Then I have to make step stools for short people. Redo and add waybills and rolling stock and then I can add the industries to the operating session.
The only place left is a logging branch off Acadia.