Update on the lighting from last month and a layout tour by rail. The mainline is built and trains will run.

This Month I look at all the lighting options to light my railroad. Some design points to look at when thinking about lighting your railroad. I look at old and new ideas. lighting a 900 square foot railroad is not cut and dry. We are one step closer to finishing the mainline.

Here is the March up date and I am looking for any photos of Martin Drake Coal Plant in Colorado Springs 1960 or earlier. I can see all kinds of photos today or in the last 20 years. But I can tell from the maps i have from 1958 that the plant was much smaller. From Google Earth i can see two of the old brick building. So if any one can help with photos or a web site that I may have missed please let me know.

Just two hours to build this hand laid #10 curve turnout with no jig just the Fast Tracks Template and some Fast Track tools. I have over 45 hand laid turnouts and still another 65 to build. This is a time laps video of the work. Enjoy the music and see the final product ready for the table.

Mike

New Job has kept me very busy but we have a new video update on the Colorado Front Range Railroad. A look at the work in Palmer Lake and our first experiment into LED layout lighting. One time laps of Jonathan working on the computer wiring.
Enjoy the video and Happy model railroading

Mike Deverell

Colorado Front Range Railroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjRqsGah2CA

Here is an update on the the layout. Little on wiring, Train runs 112 feet of the mainline, and the new spline work through Palmer Lake. so sit back and enjoy the video.

Mike Deverell

  Just a quick update and thanks to two member of this Blog, Geoff Bunza and David Bodnar both have posting that help me get this project done. It took me 4 weeks to finish this project the two decoders that I built and program work perfectly.

Thanks to Dave Bodnar and Geoff Bunza for the arduino decoder and relay control. I show how I redesign the yard using the 10 commandment of model railroad yard design.  Then show how I make a template for the custom curve crossing that needs to be hand laid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOR4euTbUhY

Happy railroading

Mike Deverell

Well we have over 512 feet of track laid 37 turnouts build. I also give a tour of my Denver Union Station and my scratch build Grain Elevator that is over 51 inches long.

I hope this video inspires some of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFjPXHv520

Mike Deverell
 

I set out to build a phone system for my layout so we could use ABS and Track Warrants on my new layout. I saw some information in the pass but not much on how or what you need to build your own phone company in your layout room.

This video I made goes over what I have found and some ideas that I looked into that start at $125 to build your own phone system that will work. I have also included below in link as to where I bought parts.

this is the link to my video: