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Life is just a bowl of cherries!
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Max
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Great start to the new layout, forward planning always hepls in the end, can you have sound in the trams as well.
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Just this one, so far, Alan.How many trams do have already Max, and how many more do you think you will need for the layout
Great start to the new layout, forward planning always hepls in the end, can you have sound in the trams as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGOpEiZwNY
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But asked the question in case I had missed you building another one :roll:
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That's an interesting lighting gantry over your layout Max.
Are the lights the type that screw-contact onto a constantly live wire runner or are they fed separately and the wires just carry them ?
Lighting is, to me, always a problem with "fixed" layouts - what to use and how to keep them high enough to allow access for working and yet still close enough to give decent light. Less of a problem on exhibition layouts because they can be built into a fairly low "pelmet".
Here's a shot of the completed wiring, Peter.
You can see the two transformers and the 240 Volt junction box. I'm not sure if it's clear, but the white cables are carrying the current and the top part of the chocolate block connectors clamp to the high tensile fencing wire, to hold them in their positions.
Maybe this shows it better. I still have to paint the upper part of the downlights with heat resistant black paint, to stop the light showing out of the tops. Tomorrow night will do for that.
On another matter, I decided to use Peco Code 75 track as the tram wheels are so tiny. Guess what! Peco don't make insulfrog turnouts in code 75 - only electrofrog. That means I have to modify them to make them DCC friendly! :roll:
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That means I have to modify them to make them DCC friendly!
No problems at all for a man of your talents Max. ;-) Next you'll be looking for grooved tramway rail in HO :thumbs
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I just had a look at the Peco website. They make insulfrogs in code 83, so that will have to do. I have 83 meeting 100 where my turntable approach meets the line to the fuel depot. The difference is significant. I've still got some 83 offcuts, so I'll stick my one tram on it and have a look.
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AND …..
we may have a winner here:- http://www.greenhobbymodel.com/model%20trains/tt%20tram%20track.htm
And more here, referred to as "girder rail" Custom Traxx - The best in Traction Decals. which seems to be the same thing.
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A. they definately exist
B. they are rare
C Cant find any pictures to prove it!
Following a PM from Rick querying where they existed ,I have spoken with several colleagues and tramway officials. They've heard of them but never seen them! It seems the problem is one of definition. An alternative name for a double slip is a compound slip, but some people call a compound slip anything that isnt just a left or right handed single slip!
Anyway this picture of The grand junction in Prague is interesting. The slips give access to each of the three routes. thanks to my friend Phil Kelly for the photo;
Mikey
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- see the Peco example
http://www.ehattons.com/StockDetail.aspx?SID=7736
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch#Double_slip
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Peter, you are right. The blue and green thingys are cable ties. They pull up tight with pliers and keep it all neat.
Thanks also to Mikey and Sol. I didn't realise that there would be so much interest when I started this thread. It started out as a way to play with Rr&Co; but , "it's gotten a life of its own, Narelle!"
Max
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