Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 03/19/18

2018/03/19

2018_03_19-Little Jobs

2018_03_19 Sound into Class 45 and lights into Harris RM Trailer.

First the 45 Class Sound install. With the Auscision loco fitted ready to plug in a 21 pin decoder, it was just a matter of plugging in the Wow decoder and wiring in the speaker a 10 minute job.
Remove the couplers and 4 screws, two each side of coupler. Plug it in, and solder speaker wires to tabs marked SP. Screw body back on and test run :D

45 Class takes a run on H.B.N.

Wondering how to fit lights and seats into a DRC and Trailer

I have an epoxy DRC and trailer and I want lights and seating fitted. I bought some seats from Casula Hobbies and they should turn up soon.

So the Harris MT car needs wipers for power as well as LED's
The Trainbuilder bogies are all brass, so I am having problems thinking out how to fit wipers.
The wheel sets are fully insulated, which means the pickups have to touch the tops or sides of the insulated tyres. At the top is a thin brass plate. I could replace that with styrene, and use small plastic screws (presume they are metric and hopefully JAYCAR have the next size down which would allow me to insulate pick ups.

This insulated (nylon) screw is metric, but too large. Intend to replace brass plate with styrene spacer which would replace small existing spacer used to lift car to correct height (shown in pic above)

Any suggestions to
comtrain1945(a)gmail(dot)com copy it to mail client and replace with @ and .

Cheers
Rod

About my Railway

The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well.
Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)
And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)
Rod Young

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