Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 05/01/19

2019/05/01

2019_05_01 MAY I show you my light?

2019_05_01 Playing with the lights.. pictorial

Deliberately taken on a dull rainy day, without flash, but should have used macro. This is with LED strip lights above. I had bought sunny white lights about 5 years ago. 300 LED's per 5m. So I used two strips to match newer 600 Led strips. I mounted two strips of LED strip onto a plastic angle attaching it so that LED's faced left and right at 45 degree angle. I think it works :D

Here follows the testing.

Room LED lights only!

Room lighting plus two rows of strip LED's. Shadow caused by LED tubes on roof (room lighting)
This will not be a problem when plastic reflector goes on top of frame.

By the way train was driven here from top of old helix. Track working fine and all sections wired correctly allowing trains to proceed into Honeysuckle... YEIIII!!!!

Room lighting on, rear strip LEDs only

Room lighting on, rear strip LED's only

Room lights on, and one strip LED's on (Front)

Room lights off, and one strip LED's on (Front)

Room lighting off, one rear strip on.(rear) Note shadow from roof LED's gone as well.

Room lighting turned off. Both LED strips on.

Edit I used plastic angle to mount LED's Had it on hand, thanks to Graeme S.

The air conditioner lifted temp from 11C to 21C in 15 minutes (at the back of room 15 m away) Much better than before the roof was repaired.
Cheers
Rod Young

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

Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

2019/05/01

2019_05_01 MAY I show you my light?

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