Under the hood

Now that there're a lot of streetlights installed I thought I'd see about hooking up a power bus to light them. 

The first thing was to flip up the layout boards and have a look under the streets. The prop bottoms are bolted to the frame cross-pieces, and the back edge of the layout boards push against the alignment stays I screwed into the frame back in the spring when I last worked on the boards. When tilted up it's quite sturdy and seems unlikely to slip. This arrangement is better than having to crawl under the frame and work over my head.

I think I have enough components around the workshop from the old layout to light up Ocean Boulevard, but the first item of business will be to do a little parts inventory.