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Today I discovered buggleskellystation.com where I was able to order Eddie and Richie figures in OO scale. Eddie is, of course, about to hit somebody with a frying pan.

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Been looking at pictures of steam depots and carriage sidings from the 60’s and it looks like what I should be doing is putting track straight onto a completely flat cork base, then add a minimum of ballast between the sleepers followed by making everything very grimy.

Suits me, keeps everything nice and simple! Need to buy some more black acrylic paint though. And work out how I’m going to construct the concrete hard standing areas.

Just glueing cork down at the moment, and deciding where the newly purchased yard lights will go. I’ve already simplified one area and eliminated a point.

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Making colour chips to try to get a good match for some model railroad specific paints in something more readily available in Australia.

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I think I’m most pleased about the red tint. I tried applying red Sharpie directly to the lens but it did nothing, was about to give up for the evening then saw some plastic wrapping due for the bin. Amazingly, works very well #ModelRailway

I saw someone do this modification with a physical switch between the rear lights and the decoder but I feel like doing it via programmed logic would be a more elegant solution. #ModelRailway

Next thing I want to do is set up a function to turn the tender tail light off when hooked on to coaches. Tail lights in the middle of the train is a big no. #ModelRailway

Tonight I have taken a soldering iron to one of my models. The GT3 gas turbine model had a mistake in the lighting, where the tail lights at the front of the loco for when it was reversing were connected to ground, so were lit up constantly. They were also white. I’ve soldered the LED to the correct output on the decoder socket for correct operation as tail lights, and then managed to turn the LED red by sticking a scrap bit of plastic I painted red with a sharpie over it. Great success! #ModelRailway

The full model railway with an enthusiasts special on the mainline. #ModelRailway

The original junction trackwork. #ModelRailway

Edited on the left and original photo on the right. #ModelRailway

I have one of these on pre-order.

👑 Commemorating 80 Years of Hattons Model Railways – Rails #ModelRailway

https://railsofsheffield.com/blogs/news/commemorating-80-years-of-hattons-model-railways

Interesting rail Junction on my layout with isolation between the outer track, (mainline), inner track, (branch line) and the inner station tracks. #ModelRailway

<sucks pipe> The intermittent clicks are 3X and 56 operating uncommanded and only in one direction, so there is probably an intermittent short in their command wires. #ModelRailway

The debug list is shorter, but there's one particularly vexing one, that the capacitor discharge unit appears to be inoperative, but to investigate more fully I'll have to unglue it from the layout. The linkage problems, I think, are just down to bad installation because it's quite fiddly.

Up points up
Down points down
12 - pass
23 - 23L inop
3X - pass
4X - bad linkage
45 - 45L bad linkage
56 - pass

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No pictures for this update but the model railway construction continues to move forwards.

I’ve spilt two of my storage lanes in half to hold four shorter trains instead of two longer ones. I cheated and just cut the circuit breaks with my dremel and wired in the four extra block detection circuits and updated JMRI to match.

The final three baseboards have been installed and I’m working on the wiring loom - power and DCC to the boards and the accessory controller. All the point motor feedback wiring is in. All the signal wiring is run (but not connected) and I’ve just finished installing the electronics that connects the SIGM20 signal controller to a Dapol double main signal (transistor switch, driven by the SIGM20, switches a relay, which is connected to the control wires that normally connect to a two way switch, x2). Just need to make up some point motor feeds, install decoupler electronics…

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Forgot to mention how occasionally there is a click noise that I don't yet know if it is a solenoid firing un-commanded, or a point blade spring clicking over much later than the solenoid had tried to move the blades. But I need some time just sitting listening quietly, and sucking on a pipe stem.and saying "hmmm" to myself, to narrow it down to one (or all twelve) points #ModelRailway

First paint job was horrid. I've stripped it down and done it again. This is with satin teak varnish and dry-brushing that involves putting varnish onto the brush, removing as much as possible on a paper towel and brushing what remains on.

It's very thin layers and takes a long time. This is with 20 layers, but I took a photo after each layer just for reference when I do the other side.

Meanwhile I'm 3d printing the bogies too.

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My point controls debugging list currently reads

Switch up; points up
Switch down: points down
12 - 12L opposite sense
23 - 23L inop
3X - pass
4X - sense good, linkage not
45 - 45L incorrect sense.
56 - 56R incorrect sense

Six DPST switches each controlling pair of points in a double ended fiddle yard. Intent to have both points respond in the same way to switch movements (e.g. switch up: both points move to route onto the upper line).

I spent an hour on it and my brain is leaking out of my ears.

It's not yet not fun.

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The class 812 has yet to be taken out of its box. Meanwhile the smaller Peckett has done a lot of running. #ModelRailway

Today we made our annual visit to the local railway exhibition. The highlight this year was the Irn Bru train. Many delighted kids watching it go round and round.
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I finally got all the point control wiring done and tested. Either the heat or I disturbed some of the connections between the point motors and the points, but the sun came out again, so it's too hot to investigate any further now. At least one switch fires the two correct point motors. #ModelRailway