martink Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Here is a video of the small working road network in one corner of my T Gauge layout Sarum Bridge. It is basically two oval-shaped linear motor tracks from IDL Motors, with some additional home-built electronics and software to make the vehicles' movements more interesting and random. http://youtu.be/R1mmBgwIPUg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted October 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 18, 2014 That is very impressive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martink Posted November 25, 2014 Author Share Posted November 25, 2014 Some more experiments, looking at making a basic sectional track system. This one is sized for T and Z, and with a bit of work should be able to handle lightweight (plastic) N vehicles too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted November 25, 2014 Share Posted November 25, 2014 Interesting, been wanting to include some moving vehicles on my new layout (N) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martink Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 The tinkering continues... Here is a short video of an improved version of the track system. It is now working well enough for me to use for T (or Z if I was working in that), but alas, is still not powerful enough for N. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martink Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 I've just started work on a new little T Gauge road layout (currently unnamed) using the latest version of my linear motor track experiments. It will be 2' 6" x 2' with 11' of 2-way roads (22' of single lane), and will be an urban setting focusing on a river spanned by multiple bridges. The track plan is my trademark pretzel-ized single-track oval. The current intent is to also include a short stretch of double track railway worked as two auto-shuttles. Most of the "vehicles" in the video are currently just pairs of magnets that fit under standard Eishindo car bodies.Video: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted November 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2015 This is amazing. I am thinking of building a T scale model of a Parkway station. It would be great to be able to include moving road vehicles as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted November 12, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 12, 2015 Very impressive Martin, are you able to paint the roads and markings or does it need the surface as smooth as possible? It looks fine for wet Tarmac anyway just wondering what possibilities are open. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas G Posted November 12, 2015 Share Posted November 12, 2015 That's the most fascinating thing I've seen on RMWeb for ages! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
martink Posted November 14, 2015 Author Share Posted November 14, 2015 Always good to get some positive feedback. I really haven't done anything new on the roads this year, as I've been playing around with sound effects for N & T, but I do plan to get back to them next year. There are lots of ideas queueing up in my head and trying to escape! The tracks shown in the later vids are just the bare PCBs. The original track on Sarum Bridge has a sheet of thin clear styrene as the road surface, painted on the underside, and that has lasted through two two-day exhibitions. I did paint the surface of one of the later tracks and it seems to work well, but hasn't had enough running to properly evaluate longevity issues. I made a slight design error on the last and most complex track so it ended up a little underpowered, and so any form of surfacing would increase both the thickness and the friction enough to cause problems. The end goal is to paint with multiple coats of something hardwearing, and I don't anticipate any problems once I revise the coil design. FWIW, the company that makes the orginal tracks I used on Sarum Bridge is currently releasing a pluggable track system based on the same principles. Its limitations mean that I don't feel that it would be all that useful for us modellers, but you might want to take a look anyway - http://www.teenytrains.com I did make a slightly updated video of that last layout, but even that doesn't show the properly painted vehicles - https://youtu.be/c2h5y6ximB4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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