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Servo Motor Mounting in 2” Foam Board
Servo motors for turnouts are cheap, about $1.20 ea. Arduino controllers are $5.00 and handle up to 12 servos. They connect to a PC with a simple printer cable, Bluetooth or Wifi. This blog includes how to install the motors in foam board; sources for Arduino controllers & command code, servo motors, WiFi & Bluetooth hardware; and sources for how to connect everything.
Brass Steam Pickup and Short Issues - Lead and Trailing Trucks
Hi everyone,
I am reassembling a Sunset Great Northern O-8 Mikado after a paint job. It had no running issues prior to disassembly. I have gotten stuck though with some shorts happening.
OOOO - Drivers and Drawbar hooked up have no issues.
OOOO -ooo ooo Drivers and Tender powered have no issues.
oOOOO -ooo ooo Lead Truck, Drivers, and Tender = Constant Shorts
OOOOo-ooo ooo Trailing Truck, Drivers, and Tender = Constant Shorts
Illuminated uncoupler stick
I recently saw on YouTube an illuminated uncoupler (on Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels channel), but it is only available in the UK.
So I quickly found a cheap base to make my own stick: some LED chopsticks!
Project - old brass RSD-15
Hi all - I recently rolled the dice and bought online an old tarnished brass diesel, an RSD-15 ("alligator") and have a few questions for the group. My goal here was really to just get some practice on sandblasting and painting brass, (ATSF blue), but it would be nice to get this working well as a stretch goal.
100+ Car Train on my Club Layout!
I recently dug out this video of a 100+ car train my friend and I made on the Adirondack and Lake Champlain to celebrate 100 subscribers on YouTube. Enjoy!
Should've known better...
Then to get involved with Arduino's and the like - they're very addictive and I love it!
The first time I discovered those little devils was when I read a post written by Geoff Bunza here in MRH. It was his SMA12 blog post (17 Channel Configurable Multifunction $5 DCC Decoder For Servos) and soon after his other posts were found, very interesting stuff altogether.
3D printed Shay, progress report
Here is an progress report on my 42 ton Shay that I am modeling in On3.
Stacked LED's for Turnout Indicators
Just wonder if something like these 'stacked LED's' could be used to indicated turnout setting,...maybe out near the turnout itself?? cheap enough
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/mrhpub.com/2015-01-jan/online/index.html?page=58
https://www.allelectronics.com/mas_assets/cache/image/5/4/f/0/21744.Jpg
Blending the Brickwork to make it look Correct and Finishing Roof Details
The title pretty much sums it up...
M420 on a mixed train
Here is a trio of M420 on a mixed train through my roughed in scenery on the Hudson Bay Railway. I can't say this ever happened in reality but it is still entertaining listening to the bark of some Alco 251.
https://hudbayrailway.blogspot.com/2021/03/m420-mixed-train.html
Marc Simpson
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