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Update 4th June 2009 |
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Things have been quieter, with Roger away a bit there has been no formal working bees on the layout. However I have been busy. The
baseboards are all on, as is the bridge for the return loop. I did not use the One Roger made as it was too deep clearance, the new
one is strong enough for the role.
I had to do more checking for the points, which were finally ordered. In the meantime some other friends came over for a workbee/work inspection. We mainly talked re the lighting, but they wanted to do something, so we cleared up some areas so we could do some painting of the baseboard top. We did the enture staging yard, as well as the uppermost staion area in the main room, as well as painting the lower staion area in the main room where I hadn't already. They also got stuck into giving the masonite facia boards a coat as well, more as a undercoat ! |
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| Looking at the main "pinwheel" at the arrival end. The two points closed to the brick wall are the departure tracks. | Looking at main storage part of the area, on the "window" side. The bridge brings a comon departure road over as well as the long staging track that goes around the outer side. | Another look at the pinwheel area and door. |
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As I were going up to see my famil in Brisbane for the weekend, I thought I would take some video, with a unrehesed commantary.
I have manged to get this onto youtube last night, and here's the details :
YOUTUBE VIDEO Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3izXQdjF-Lc Added: June 3, 2009 From: David HEad (DTHEAD) Description: A tour around the layout |
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On the left we see the vertical gap, the tracvk and baseboard almost line up with the lower level, but uin fact as
the red arrow shows will line up wit the top most hole.
On the right we see the uppermost staion area given a grey undercoat. |
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As seen in the video, the points have arrived. All Peco code 100 electrofrog units. I have started to lay them, by drilling a decent hole under them for point mototr installs. I then secured the point with screws. The track will be glued down when I get around to that ! The staging yard has 4 stub ended sidings, 7 main storage road and one extra long storage road. The three stub ended ones are for railmotors and silimar units. the last stb ended siding id more for the XPT unit. Every siding will eventually be track circuited. For now two reversing units will be required, one for the long storage road, and another for the rest, since they all share the common track across "the bridge". Each storage road will have one track section detected. But art the end of every section ther eis a common track section to indicate the train is too close to the points, Ths is about 300mm of track before the points. Thus one track section detecting all entries, simplfies the detectors, since the function it to ensure trains stop with clearance. The main detetor will tell the operator what road they have got. The plan is to have a webcam supervising the "departure" end so people can choose their trains. A Web cam is desireable as I do not need to get complex AV equipment, only need a few computers, and users can call up the various web cams as needed, and to allow for future internet sructiny. Next time I'll talk about point motor investigations.....and have hopefully another working bee report. |
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