Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2020_04

2020/04/27

2020_04_27 Separation!!

2020_04_27 about 10 hours work later....

Well its good news, because after moving almost every connection to its correct bus line, I have separated the two circuits, and the shorts have disappeared.The Allanvale section is completely isolated from the old helix. Yeiiii!!
To get this happening I had to ensure all 7 Tortoise motors were power feeding from the BG circuits. Everyone was red wired to the BG bus but black wired to the SG bus...fixed.
The diamond crossover was part of the BG system but was wired as a SG section, and so I changed the droppers to BG bus, and found some of the BG points were connected fully or partly to the SG system... Fixed.

It has taken me all this time to reach the stone quarry track work, and so I will continue on to the helix and fix any other problems, or even just tidy up the wiring.
That means the difficult part, left, will be the wheat silo and new station yard.
I am also fixing the point motor switches and gluing in the mountings which were only loosely fitted.

So having a break after 3 hours of solid work, and back into it after lunch

And so if the mess is an indication of the works carried out? It sure is a mess :D

Cheers
Rod

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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!

2020/04/27

2020_04_27 Separation!!

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