A Little More Work On The T-TRAK Module

I did some scenery work on the T-TRAK module I posted about last week, adding some vegetationm to the berm:

The ground cover is just a sheet from JTT that includes all the dirt, grass, and shrubbery. I cut it up to fit the space. The great thing about these sheets is that they aren't paper, they're a somewhat more flexible material, and if you cover the area you're going to put it on with a coat of Elmer's Glue, even if it isn't flat, as shown above, it will shrink to fit the irregular surface as the glue dries.

The trees are from Bachmann. I'll be adding more to the area as work continues.

Most of the work I did over the past week was under the module deck. I've pretty much given up on the idea of ever bringing my modules to a T-TRAK meet -- a Southern California group was starting before COVID, but it quit for the duration, and then the venues raised their insurance requirements, so I doubt if this will ever really restart. In any case, I'd already been building modules that weren't electrically compatible with the T-TRAK standards, so I'm basically satisfying myself building small layouts in a home environment.

But under the decks, I'm installing things like DCC switch machine decoders and NCE Illuminators that let me run Woodland Scenics Just Plug devices off the DCC bus. This is what the underside of one of my typical modules looks like:

This will allow me to add featues like signals in the future, without the need to go under a conventional layout to make changes -- all I do is flip the module over to work on it. There's a lot of potential in T-TRAK besides just running big layouts in gyms and convention centers.