Dargan Restoration

Hi Folks

I gave up on the idea of joining the three segments of my new roundhouse together as the building was just too large to be handled without it being damaged. Created male and female edges and the segments sit together quite nicely. Quite an exercise though. The project is now completed and I am moving on to landscaping so basically the water damage is finished as I am working on new additions. For the statistically minded, there are 1,762 individual pieces of scale timber employed in the structure. The cat I had on the building works in progress was too small so a decent one has been added. The old one is now used on a new coal bunker. So I guess this now completes the Dargan Restoration thread...back to Dargan!








Cheers

and happy modelling

Richard

 

Thanks Gormo

From where it was and even before the water damage, the new roundhouse and turntable are a huge improvement and great fun to operate. It makes for very realistic running sessions. The locos run smoothly into and out of the turntable which runs beautifully at a scale speed. The gearing on the turntable rotor is very precise but it is essential to keep it dust free. I have put a warning on the control panel "clean the cogs!" There was also a polarity issue on one track as you forewarned and this has been overcome easily by installation of a small section of isolation controlled by a double pole double throw switch. Throwing the switch has no impact on the continuous operation of the locos. I also had to relay the Western (left) entry track as when I added the ballast, the underlying cork base expanded slightly and raised the track above the turntable rotor only marginally but enough to muck up the smooth entry.
I have yet to interface the control module into my NCE DCC system but that seems to be only a medium size challenge and that for another day. As we all well know, there is no such thing as "plug and play" For now there is a heap of scenery to get under way.

Cheers

and again, back to happy modelling

Richard