Kalmbach Publishing DVD 15303 Laying and Wiring Track

Duration: 85 minutes.

A model railroad runs well when it has smooth, trouble-free track to run on. In LAYING AND WIRING TRACK, you will learn how to lay flextrack and to position turnouts with confidence. Additionally, and just as important, you will learn how to wire your trackwork for good electrical operation. The MR staff then moves on to switch motors, which they will install and wire on their HO scale railroad. There is nothing like watching practiced professionals doing what they do best! The demonstrations of basic trackwork and wiring on this DVD are important first steps in building your layout after you have completed your benchwork and rudimentary landscaping. Therefore, LAYING AND WIRING TRACK will be important to you. Even if you have done some of this work before, you can benefit from what these professionals do. They have done it many times before this and their practices are lessons to be learned.

LAYING AND WIRING TRACK will help you develop expertise in an essential step in building your model railroad. It also covers a sometimes tricky operation. The demonstrations will be very useful to you for this critical stage in the development of your railroad. Nothing beats watching the experts doing the very work you need to do. Take a few moments to look in on these folks as they do what they do so well. You will benefit greatly. It is time well spent! And it's actually fun watching them working. They make it look so easy. You will probably hit the pause button a few times!

CONTENTS with running times for each section:
Introduction, 1:00
Installing cork roadbed, 14:11
Laying track, 17: 49
Soldering rail joints, 6:48
Wiring, 12:35
Install a switch motor-1, 11:02
Install a switch motor-2, 14:03
Power turnout frogs, 11:03