More T-TRAK Work

I procrastinated for several years adding a Woodland Scenics built-and-ready N scale Clyde & Dale's Barrel Factory to my double wide depressed-deck T-TRAK module.

I'd given a lot of thought to the industry I wanted to add here, but from the start, I sized it for the Woodland Scenics building. Nevertheless, I kept looking for a potentially better structure, but I kept coming back to this one as the best combination of size and detail. I'll rename it, but I haven't decided what I'll turn it into.

I like all the detail that's included with the building, but I toned the silver bits down with Tamiya brown panel liner.

The building comes with one Just Plug stick-on LED mounted inside. What I've found with the Woodland Scenics buildings that have Just Plug lighting is that they're set up to illuminate only a small partition inside, with the rest of the building's interior taken up with a black construction paper view block. In this case, the LED lights up only a small office area but doesn't light the main building.

I decided I wanted to add a second LED to light the main building's windows. I removed the costruction paper view block from the main interior and covered the interior walls with Woodland Scenics Light Diffusing Window Film. I'll get another stick on LED on my next trip to the train store.

With my T-TRAK modules, I power Just Plug LEDs from NCE Illuminators that work off the DCC bus power that comes in via the Unitrack. The Illuminator then turns the DCC signal back into 12 volt DC that it transmits to the Just Plug LEDs via the JST plugs.

The other device in the lower left is a Digitrax DS52 switch decoder that controls the Unitrack crossover and switch on the module. This is all completely un-kosher for standard T-TRAK and is intended exclusively for my personal home T-TRAK layout.

In the photo, you can see I've provided initial power to the Illuminator, and the indicator LED is lit. Two of the JST plugs will power the LEDs in the Woodland Scenics barrel factory (or whatever it will become). The third JST plug as shown will feed a regular terminal strip that will power other 12 volt DC features like non-Just Plug street or building lights.