The Crossing has arrived

The sixty degree crossing from Bertram Heyn has arrived.  Back in February I talked about the Trouble with gardens and curves and the need for a piece of track that only he makes to be able to link up four LGB R1 points.  (Browsing through the PIKO catalogue/brochure I see that they envisage making one.... sometime....).

One think that I wasn't aware of was its DCC use and electrical isolation.  So, its out with some track, and testing locomotive (Red Schoema again - I wonder if is prophetic that it arrived with DCC ID number 13 and I've not changed it).

So, we have the test run and no stalling over the connection and electrical independence was there, since when I placed it on the unconnected tracks then there was no power.

There is a slight downside though - the straight bits to fit between the points are 125mm long (I asked Bertram Heyn).  This size of track is not a standard LGB size but is available from Herr Heyn.  So, I guess its time for some more shopping.....

I also played around with what I propose to do (see the earlier track plan) at the bottom end due to the way the garden path and flowerbeds are.  In my earlier plan I used R3 point, whereas in this example I used the R1.