I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.

I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout. 

I once read an article on increasing the throw wire diameter on a tortoise switch machine. The article stated by increasing the diameter that better results would be obtain during operation because the wire is more rigid. My problem is that I don’t recall where I read it. Any help in finding this article would be appreciated.

You can see it here.

Well it’s September already, I woke up to a cold rainy day, so it is down to the basement to get the layout running for the winter.

First step is to vacuum the track and layout.