UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

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Automatic Lights At Night

Post by stevenfitch » Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:55 pm

Installed a dusk / dawn sensor on the outside of the garage, this is then connected to a DS64 input (via a relay) so TrainController on the PC knows if it is dark outside and turns the loco lights, carraige lights and tail lights on when trains leave the garage.

Test it with a black bag to simulate darkness and all working.

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OTT Carraige Lights

Post by stevenfitch » Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:04 pm

Using LED strips inside two coaches and a couple of spare decoders i had...

We now have a choice of blue, white or combined lighting + the rear coach has a red tail light and the other one has separate lights in the toilet compartment.

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Post by Big Jim » Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:40 am

That is a very cunning idea.
It just shows how far this hobby had moved over the years.

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Sat Apr 08, 2017 7:23 pm

Back area trackwork in progress, just the block wiring left to connect.

Half way through
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Half way through
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Finished track ready to be fixed in place
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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by tom_tom_go » Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:06 pm

That is going to be a busy railway when it is finished Steve.

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:09 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:06 pm That is going to be a busy railway when it is finished Steve.
Should be able to have 5-6 trains running under automation at once, will probably be more like 3 moving and the others stopping in station and waiting in passing loops etc.
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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:12 pm

How are you programming the locos for automation? Will they run in a block system with sensors or shuttle mode?

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Post by jim@NAL » Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:38 pm

looking great looks like your very good at electrics keep it up and keep us all posted

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by jim@NAL » Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:43 pm

one thing the light sensor you have used iv seen used before and the plastic on the top tends to fade and make the sensor not work .

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:18 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:12 pm How are you programming the locos for automation? Will they run in a block system with sensors or shuttle mode?
Its DCC (or MTS as LGB call it)

Its a block system using TrainController Gold from Freiwald with Digitrax hardware.
BDL168's for occupancy detection.
DS64's to control the solenoid valves which in turn allow air to control the points.
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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:19 pm

jim@NAL wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2017 11:43 pm one thing the light sensor you have used iv seen used before and the plastic on the top tends to fade and make the sensor not work .
I'll keep an eye on that, it was just a £15 job so i wasn't expecting much at all!
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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:24 pm

On with the 'scenery' - this arrived full this morning
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Then got spread out to fill in the back area, piled up high at present as from past experience it settles quite a bit.
Will possibly do a top cover of smaller size slate chippings (20mm i used everywhere else, these are 40mm as that's all the patio center had in a dumpy bag)
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Next step is some of that plastic fake grass to go round the vegetable patches
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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Fri Apr 14, 2017 5:59 pm

I was going to sell off some auto carriers as they are the incorrect scale (full size and I've only got narrow gauge RHB stock) but turns out that with some chopped up broom handles and bamboo canes they look ok as some logging cars.

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:04 pm

Progress has begun on landscaping / walls on the back return loop area.
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Post by tom_tom_go » Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:11 pm

Getting there Steve, looks promising...

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Post by jim@NAL » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:05 pm

Looking good nice bit of brickwork

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:19 pm

and the soil is in...
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Post by tom_tom_go » Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:24 pm

What is the bricked smaller cylinder for on the right?

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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by stevenfitch » Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:12 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:24 pm What is the bricked smaller cylinder for on the right?
Fire pit... yes it has been tested with the biggest fire possible and plastic tubes sticking up from track level behind it so it shouldn't melt the trains!
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Re: UK Rolling Stock in G - Project not yet started

Post by tom_tom_go » Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:20 pm

Trains and a camp fire, brilliant...

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