2019_10_24 Albury develops a little bit more.

2019_10_24  Getting track down at the "busy" end.

The BG track with loop,closest to the wall comes together and then crosses over the SG tracks Its a difficult proposition in HO scale, and I could not duplicate the prototype track plan. 

 Platform road closest to camera crosses the BG then passes through a crossover. Straight ahead is the loop to the right is the main line to Sydney. The through road runs over the BG track to form the main line beyond the crossover.

RH large radius, will hopefully allow the Aurora and Daylight cars to cross over.

The through road crosses over to the runaround road. The picture shows me that I have forgotten to include a point to access the Loco and yard.

 So the first diamond will need to enter a RH point to acess the yard.

Some more green valences .......

Cheers
Rod

2019_10_12 Social Day!

2019_10_12  Al continues with track in Albury and.....

 With the BG platform roads completed, Al starts to feed in the loop servicing Bunge's as well as the transfer roads

Their was a dead end road this end, but I never saw it used. So at this stage I left it out.

Scenery and Valences

And Graeme came to show me some protected switch fittings he constructed using cable tidy covers and 3D printed tubes.

 He simply pushed the 3D printed tube into the  tidy cover and I screwed in a wired switch.

 Graeme drilled out the Valence and the switch protector just needs to be glued in.

 Simple hole saw used but here the switch did not fit in, so I used a spade bit and opened up room behind switch.

We simply popped out the cover that came with the surround.

 Looks pretty good eh?

 After installing the new valence and gluing in place, I waited for glue to dry , removed the clamps and undercoated the valiance. This time we exposed the back side gluing the white plastic side to the edge of base board. Paints much easier.

I stuffed this up yesterday when I drilled small holes and mounted switches before seeing Graeme's beaut covers.  So we cleaned the paint off the plastic surface and glued a new strip on top.
Then Graeme drilled out the necessary holes... much better :) Going to need about 50 of these, I wonder if Graeme is regretting showing me these? Ha Ha. Thank you for your help my friends. Its only happening because you are pushing me along, and I am so grateful

Cheers
Rod

2019_10_10 Albury continues and theres more!

2019_10_10 Its Thursday and Al is roaring to go.

(BG = Broad Gauge and SG = Standard Gauge)
Can't help myself :D  Running trains over part of the line is taking up a bit of time :)

The R shunted out of way, as it awaits repairs (need to add a capacitor to smooth out running)

BGM D3 helps the T haul the goofy's up the grade.

Still mixing trains on the gauges, however this will stop when the second helix starts working ;)

Laying track in Albury

Al laying track,  He seems to like it, and his track is superb too.
You can see how he "volunteers" to lay track, can't you

This is about 2/3 of the Albury SG platform. The BG platform is slightly reduced in length.
Was going to cover platform with sandpaper to simulate asphalt. However sitting the whiteboard on the cork is just level with the doors on the carriages. I might have to paint it instead.

BG and SG (top) enter Albury. The BG divides with one track crossing the SG and the other track enters the BG platforms

Painting and fixing up points

Its time to see how the fascia is going to look.

Cheers
Rod

2019_10_05 Point Control video

 Had a bit of a search to find all the Tam Valley stuff I have purchased over the years. Sorted them out into two plastic boxes.

 After an inventory was taken, i was surprised when I discovered just how much stuff I had in stock.

 And so I created a temporary control panel and started installing the point controllers.
These controllers can be programmed to operate on DCC using the throttle (switch position) or computer operated or these push buttons and all together.

The back of the switch has a servo connection, a run/align position and can be locked when set up.

 The Lock pins are next to the plug carrying powr to and from the servo point motors.

NEXT PROJECT 
Starting to install Albury Station and Yard

And so Al gets back to Albury. This job has been waiting for him for over a year. Not only does he like laying track, I like the results as well. He has become a real expert and all his track is excellent. So why not wait for him :D

 From the South BG and SG arrive over the Murray River and separate before entering the station.
Main feature is the 3 way point accessing platform, Through Road and Runaround.

 But first of all I had to clean down the benches and the floor.

 It wasn't long before Al had moved 4 meters down the yard, as I prepared the platforms and started to arrange the BG track spacing's.

He is pretty good, don't you think?

 Need to set platforms in place to fix BG track down. Point marks out where BG runaround exits.

To be continued......

2019_10_05 Tam Valley Point controllers

 

Point of view or how to....

Press on title for video.

Cheers
Rod