Blue Ridge Mountain Railroad Company

[RonnieS]

Although I am a WR/LMR 1960s modeller at home. I am also involved with an American outline club layout.

 

[RonnieS]

There will be 4 control panels. I have built 3 so far. 2 on the left side and 1 on the right

This is the Left hand side "Signal box diagram"
Over on the Left Hand Side are Control panel 1 and 2. 1 switches the points via stud contact and isolates roads 1-7.
2 switches between DCC and DC. the colours on the diagram relate to switched sections. For DC control is hand held Modelex controllers. For DCC Z21

 

[RonnieS]

And this is the right

 

[RonnieS]

As you can see from the above plans. Trains can be run as either 2 trains (on inner and outer ovals)
or 1 train on a figure of 8. The switching is controlled by a single slip on a lift bridge on the entrance to the layouts home.
This is an early shot when we were still tracklaying.

 

[RonnieS]

Team leader, Clive, has painted the lift bridge

 

[RonnieS]

Round the corner on the loco depot..........slow progress but progress never the less.

 

[RonnieS]

And on a bit that is finished

 

[RonnieS]

Saturday Morning track laying.

 

[RonnieS]

And laid.

 

[RonnieS]

A bit closer

 

[RonnieS]

I would welcome ideas on hiding/camouflaging the side mounted point motors. Whenever possible we go for underneath motor mounting but sometimes a baseboard crossmember makes it a no no!

 

[timbowales]

You could just paint them in whatever colour your prototype road uses for the full size article?

 

[RonnieS]

The (last minute) track layout changes caused me a bit of a headache on the panel in that I had already let in the controller for the turntable motor. However I think it's going to be like this on the top?



The larger circles are the section switches and the smaller represent the studs. Obviously The lines are just a grid and won't be on the panel top!

 

[RonnieS]

It's not as spaced out as the goods yard panel

 

[RonnieS]

I think it's this

 

[RonnieS]

Well! We had a Visitor.
I thought it was a Clive wind up but no.....it was a real one.

 

[Yorkshire Dave]

Nice visitor, probably a House Spider (Tegenaria species) which is native to the UK - unlike the Daddy Long Legs Spider (Pholcus phalangioides) which is not.

 

[timbowales]

Given some of the goings-on re loose connections on other threads on WT that sticker, telling people to check tightness of all connections including the factory-made ones, on the consumer unit is very telling.

 

[Osgood]

Given some of the goings-on re loose connections on other threads on WT that sticker, telling people to check tightness of all connections including the factory-made ones, on the consumer unit is very telling.

 

[simond]

My assumption is that they neither checked the connections, nor removed the label, on the basis that they hadn’t removed the label.