Month: February 2016

The past week have not been focused on laying tracks, designing PCB’s, connection wires an all other fun things you do when building a model railroad. Instead, I have unpacked one hug box of trains and wagons that have been in storage since I moved to my new house. And boy was I into a fun exercise with cleaning wheels, engines and so on. But that was not the worst thing. I had seven engines that didn’t run! How horrible. So I opened them all up to try to find the problems. Two of them where fairly easy to fix…

As some of you may have understood, I've working on the smaller station right now. And this past week was focused on all the electronics that is needed for the servos and block feedbacks. So I started with creating servo holders in my workshop. 12 of them in total. Well, I just needed 11 to be honest, but I wanted one extra to measure turnout positions for the fiddle yard that I will start with after the smaller station. I continued with mounting the servo holders under the turnouts, and measured the end positions for the servo arms. That's a…

Söndagens MJ aktiviteter var fokuserade på två olika saker. Dels att Last sundays RR activites was focused on two parts. Number one was to create the 12 servoholders that will be needed for all the turnouts at the smaller stations. Kind of boring work to create them, but on the other hand it's something you do once and then their made. So buckle up, turn on some good music and start using all those powertools we all love so much These new servoholders will be used for the turnouts that I also put into place today. The moment, when you…

So I have finally started with laying the tracks for the smaller station. As I didn't document very good for the larger station, I have decided to do that now instead. All the fotos are taken and I will soon start with a dedicated page on this web for how I'm doing it, the different materials, tools and so on. Stay tuned.. But It do looks like that I need to replace one of the turnouts. Miss from my side during drawing of the layout. The angles for the tracks to the platforms will not be correct. So I will…