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New Year, New Opportunities
It's a new year with new opportunities.
Tonight I put up a couple of the sections for my station. They haven't been up since I was in Bergen in the beginning of october.
Here comes a couple of pictures of how it looks at this point.
A shot of both sections with the Warehouse in the background.
The ballast used is gravel from a local quarry.
The next project to do at the station is:
- Find out what I need for the servos that I need to control the turnouts, and order it
- Make the controlpanel for controlling the turnouts.
- Building the platform and the power supply that are going to power the station. The platform will also hold the commandstation and the short circuit breaker.
- Continue with the landscape and building buildings.
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Yesterday I consturcted the controlpanel in CAD.
Since I have never seen an american controlpanel before I need some help placing the controls for turning the turnouts/routing of trains. The station is reflecting a statio in the late 1950's early 1960's.
The controlpanel
Here is the actual trackplan
The turnouts will be controlled servos
Any help will be useful.
EivindPT
ATSF in the late 1950's and early 1960's in O-scale
I would suggest drilling holes to mount them in your panel at each switch right were the two routes in the switch diverge. Mount the toggle switches so that the handles are operating in a vertical plane, and set it up so that the handle goes to the direction the turnout is thrown. That way your toggle switch handles also become route indicators. In the two crossovers, one switch could control both turnouts. In that case put the toggle switch at either of the turnouts on your diagram that denote crossovers and if it is mounted on the bottom turnout in the drawing, the toggle pointed up would indicat the switches set for crossing over, the toggle pointing down would indicate the turnout set for straight through. If you mount the toggle on the top turnout of the crossover, mount the toggle opposite so the the handle down means crossover and the handle up indicates straight.