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Quiet Summer -- Dreaming of Working on the Railroad

It has been a long and busy summer, but not for working on the railroad. The trackwork is reasonably stable now, having suffered a few more changes. Sitting with potation in hand mentally operating the railroad has been fruitful. Track in the mine area was extended and a cross-over added that enabled switching runarounds that would otherwise have proved difficult. An interchange track was added between the Tamworth extension (an area built on top of the helix) and the main. And the Deseronto yard got a small restructuring as well.

Reversing loop schematics with dwell timer

Hello All,

I am hoping someone out there may be able and willing to help me. I am looking for a circuit diagram for a revering circuit to control an incline rail setup, I want both the run time and dwell time at both ends variable, or if posible sensors at the top and bottom to trigger the reverse cycle. My electronic skills are limited to medium.

Bill Brillinger's picture

Roadbed in Staging?

Do you use roadbed for your staging and hidden track?

If so, why?

I am considering just attaching my hidden track directly to the bare plywood.

- Bill

Bremner's picture

Thinking about trying my hand at scratchbuilding...(N Scale)

so I have an odd distance from the front of my layout to the closest siding, and I was thinking that a long, narrow warehouse would fit in real well. I was thinking about making it a sale 50 feet wide, 200 feet long, and have three car spots, with roll up doors. I plan to model a pair closed, and have one open. I was thinking about having a concrete floor foundation that is the same height as a boxcar floor, and appearing like this:

Michael T.'s picture

Walthers Turntable control box calls for AC? Shouldn't DC be fine?

OK I've got situation here that makes me feel stupid for apparently throwing out or otherwise losing my old train  "power pack".

rickwade's picture

Richlawn RR V2 - Adding "invisible" feeders to the track

Now that most of the track work is completed on the railroad I started adding feeders.  I've seen a number of methods of soldering the feeders with most of them soldering to the side of the rails.  I thought about trying to solder the feeders to the bottom of the rails before installing the track but it would have been too difficult.  I decided to solder the feeders to the bottom of the rails after installation and it isn't that difficult.  Here's what it looks like using this method (sorry about the fuzzy pictures - this was a rush photo shoot):

polystyrene good for creating scenery or not

I recently got my hands on a few pieces of polystyrene over the past couple of days and was wanting to use it to create the foundation of mountains with crumpled up newspaper placed in certain areas then drape plaster cloth over everything to create a solid frame to paint and mould into scenery how would I go about getting the heights right in order to make them realistic in height and size according to the scale of the train set


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