Very little work has been done on the layout recently. My focus instead has been on locomotives and rolling stock. After adding a firebox LED to Whitechapel a few weeks ago, I thought about adding a more conventional cab light to the Class 08. This is wired to the decoder in series with a resistor and placed in the cab in place of the speedometer.
Quite pleased with the result, I went about adding an LED to the cab of the Hornby Sentinel as well. The Sentinel has the same type of
It's been a few weeks since the last entry and not much has happened on the layout. I just thought I'd share a picture of terrier 'Whitechapel' on a test track with the firebox LED lit. It's a nice novelty, but the colour isn't quite right and a flickering effect would be more realistic. It's bright enough to light some of the detail in the cab; I might add a crew as well.
The next job will be rebuilding the control panel to the right of the controller. This has more controls than the o
On Saturday, I decided that the layout needed a space to keep the DCC controller while not in use. There are five spaces between the wooden pillars along the front of the baseboard - the outer two are storage spaces for rolling stock, the next one in on each side is a switch panel and the one in the middle was empty. I rectified this late on Saturday by fitting a small sliding tray on wooden runners.
Speaking of the switch panels either side of the controller - these are not complete
Haroldston East is a layout that lives next to my desk. In fact, the removable fiddle yard runs along the back of the desk while attached to the layout. The layout measures about 6' wide by 1'4" deep and is built on one baseboard 8" high. The height is taken up by shelves for storing rolling stock and road vehicles not in use on the layout. The removable fiddle yard adds about 5' to the layout, giving plenty of room to run trains onto and off of the layout.
The track plan is a littl
