After laying the tracks I needed to sort out the chaos that I called “cabling” – by screwing plastic cable conduits in place to funnel the cables from all over the layout to the transformators and semaphore/point switchboard.
After a bit of work this is how it looks now. Better; much better:
After I finished most of the cabling and all points and all tracks were connected to the three transformators (”travos”), I detected one rather disturbing fact: Whenever an engine crosses from the area powered by one travo to one powered by another, the power supply is shorted and (a) the engine stops and (b) all lights are dimmed. I have to admit: I am rather puzzled in the moment… What am I doing wrong? I need to think about that; especially since I recall from my childhood days that it worked fine…
Then, it hit me (while I was carrying a crate of water bottles into the garage): I had the same problem when I was a kid; and one can solve it by turning the power plug (I am using a two-pronged “Euro plug”) around by 180°. The shortage appears when the mains power cycles are not in synch… So I turned the plug around and all runs as smooth as silk. Phew.