Tumut

Thanks for all the helpful tips everyone!

AnyRail is a great tool. After playing with it for the last 48 hrs, I have a basic plan. All I need is everyone to pick it apart to pick up everything I've missed!

Unfortunately, I didn't have a good idea of the space required to do Gundagai and Tumut, so its now just Tumut with room for a decent turntable styled sector plate and some nice branchline scenery leading into a reasonably accurate representation of Tumut. I even got the timber mill in!

Go your hardest, I want to hear it all.

Reidy

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Gary wrote:

Thanks Gary. Appreciate your comments.

Yes, I'm really liking the sound of DCC. I'm still getting my head around the circuitry.

Electrofrog v Insulfrog. Seems like the electrofrogs make the wiring a bit more complicated, but the overall result will be better. Am I right in assuming this?

Thanks

Matt

 

Thanks Gary. Super helpful. Makes it easy to understand. Look slike electroforog is the go.
I like the DPDT switch method as it seems like a needless expense to have flash electric point motors at this stage. If I go down the foam base board path, it might not be too hard to convert over if I feel the need. I might even try both for a while to see what I like.
A while back, there was a neighbour with a huge layout in his basement that I used to visit. He had a layout diagram on a board at the operating console with copper studs protruding from each of the points. He had a 'wand' that he touched on the studs to change the points which completed the circuit. Small LEDs indicated the condition of the point. I thought that was pretty cool.
Reidy

 

Well, I've had my first plonker moment.

I put the wrong data into Anyrail. The dimensions of the baseboards were off. And they're never too big when this happens 😩

Anyway, I had to make a compromise. The turntable has disappeared (hopefully for not too long) and the branch line runs into the terminus where it used to be. That way I can keep the length of the yard as it was.

There's a bucket load of room at the top right of the photo, so I might have to use that modellers licence a bit more and relocate the turntable up there.

Here's the Anyrail plan for the main yard on the board. Just like all my cordless tools where the batteries are always *blooming* flat, the printer is out of ink and has given me a Mardi Gras theme 🙄

 

I've put all of the old insulfrogs on Ebay. Hopefully that might offset some of the cost of the new points.

I've got all this Code 100 flex and a heap of setrack. I'm in two minds about moving to code 75. Obviously 75 will look nicer and closer to the correct dimensions for a NSW branch. It just seems like a waste!

Gary, interesting use of the slip. What's the difference between the single and double?

Reidy

 

I was lucky enough to win first prize in the AMRA raffle held at the Liverpool exhibition. One of the committee members showed me around their clubhouse today - wow! Their DCC layout is next level. They have a signal room with two operators that receive phone calls from the layout outside with requests to enter the mainline! They track the trains progress on video feeds. Amazing.



An Austrians 41 Class. The one legged chook is getting a run for its money in this raffle Sixth prize was Trainorama 48 which would have slotted right in to my layout 😫

For those of you who don't know, this was probably one of NSWGR worst acquisitions. Hideously unreliable and they barely left Sydney! (Built in 🇬🇧 haha)

Anyway, this will be getting moved on fairly promptly. Trains don't run without track and this is where the funds need to go.