In Part 3 of this project, the remainder of the Woodland Scenics Just-Plug gooseneck lights (14 total) are added & tested on the Union Pacific Freight House.  Some of the key items used for hooking up the lights include using a 1/16 inch drill bit fin a pin vise for drilling the holes for the lights, two euro-style terminal strips, velcro, wire glue, some 22 AWG wire, and a lot of patience working with the wire on the lights that I would consider the size of hair.  I believe that the wire is a small size of magnet wire that has both red & black insulation.  I used an emory board to sand off the insulation & then double-checked that it had been removed under a magnifying lamp.  The Just-Plug system is easy to use and set up as shown in the second portion of the video.   Short pieces of velcro were attached to the terminal strips & the to the inside of the building for ease of adding & removing them. The wire that comes with the lights is very small & delicate & could easily break when routed thru a hole in the table which is why I used the method that I did. The next part will show the installation of the UP animated sign on the roof for testing prior to the building being reinstalled back onto the layout.

The Union Pacific animated sign (Miller Engineering) is added and tested. The sign was obtained from Fifer Hobby Supply.  The smaller N/HO versions of the animated signs do not come with a bracket or structure for mounting the sign on the roof of a building so you either have to build one from styrene or design/print a 3D support structure.  I did the latter and printed the support structure on my daVinci 1.0 Pro. You have to be careful when gluing the support structure to the sign to ensure that no glue gets onto the sign’s electrical contacts.  I typically use a CA type glue for attaching the support structure to the sign.  I am currently working on adding some lighting on a couple of other structures so Part 4 of this project, which will be the completed installation on the layout, will probably occur during May 2019 when the other buildings are completed.

Modeling the ATSF Paradigm Division in N-Scale 

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