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Easter Track Laying at the South End of Leicester Central

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Some progress laying the south bays and also trackwork on the up lines. Droppers soldered and dropped, points doctored for DCC, "throw" mechanism taken out as i'm using Cobalts, and the sides of the points also streamlined to cosmetically improve them.

 

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Got the bays nice and straight with my metal rule. Also the centre to centre measurement is 50mm. When I cut out the baseboards I misjudged the width so i'm going to add some extra width on the the western side of the neck. Also as the Cobalts are powering the points the bridge might need some headscratching too.

 

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A little bit of fiddling getting the curves as best I can. All Peco Streamline code 100. So some head scratching and lots of hours on Anyrail to get the result I wanted. I gave up with cutting the webbing from the sleepers to space them more widely, the layout's taking long enough as it is.

 

A friend in the UK has offered to mill out two Deltics to fit the EM2 "Earth Mover" speakers for Prototype Deltic and 55022. Unfortunately the speakers still didn't fit, so I got the Dremel out and slowly ground out a further 1mm. Also filing the roof and the speakers, it's a very tight fit, but it fits. Royal Scots Grey is done now. At some point down the line i'll put some lights in it. But that'll wait for another year. (post post edit, the dremeling below is a Cl37 I recently fitted 2 speakers in, not the deltic.)

 

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Here's a short video. Turn the sound down a bit.

 

 

And last and not least another excuse not to lay track... playing with blending acrylics (Tamiya) thinned and blended with a brush. Home made decals will go on top and the whole lot weathered a bit.

 

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Hello Tremayne,

 

good to see some progress on your layout.

I wish you and your wife a happy easter.

 

Markus

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Hello Tremayne,

 

good to see some progress on your layout.

I wish you and your wife a happy easter.

 

Markus

 

Thanks Markus, it's slow work but getting quicker (it's all relative). Best wishes for Easter!

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Just a quick update not warranting a new post. Some more progress on the southern end. Track laid but still need to drill the droppers through and wire up a new Bus wire from the PM42 as the up lines are on a different zone to the down lines. This means that if there's a short on the down lines it will not affect the running on the up lines and v.v. The storage sidings will also be likewise wired and the loco storage and turntable will be the 4th zone.

 

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A little bit of reading up on the Peco Insulfrog 3 way point resulted in a little belt and braces approach. I cut out some webbing to ensure contact between the + and - rails. It seems these were reliant on the blades making contact which doesn't seem very rugged to me. So I soldered them together. 1st try with a 3 way so we'll see. Lower one is new and the top one has the webbing cut away.

 

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And this is after i've soldered a wire connecting the + rails and independently the - rails (obviously not the + to the -!) The 2 x frog polarities will be changed over from the 2 x Cobalts.

 

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Nice to see how this is progressing, my own DC version of the GC at Leicester is also progressing slowly, most of my track is in place and I am building the station canopy and buildings/platforms, I am yet to add the turntable/parcels office area.http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/124304-the-great-central-in-and-around-leicester-195565/page-1

 

I'm now following you and well considering this project has been on the cards for about 10 years you're significantly ahead of me! 

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