Control Panels
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Being snowed in over the weekend provided an excuse to progress the loco shed control panel as at least some of it could be undertaken on the kitchen table! It's been attached to the layout this afternoon and now awaits completion of the wiring. The panel is simply a piece of thin plywood. I drew the track layout with a felt-tip and then drilled/cut the holes for the switches, the controller and the screws that will be wired to the point motors. It was then given a couple of coats of white emulsion and the track-plan re-drawn once dry. It's attached to the baseboard with a couple of hinges such that it can rotate through 180 degrees in order to make soldering on the underside relatively easy.
The controller is a Gaugemaster UDF twin-track that saw service on a previous layout. One controller will handle the power to the tracks whilst the other will be dedicated to the Locomotech turntable motor. Section switches have in the main been acquired over the years from car breakers and back-street junk shops! Flicking the switches to set the road I find very satisfying....
For completeness, this is the main control panel. Controllers are a Gaugemaster Series U (with inertia option) and an ECM Compspeed (with inertia) and both are a pleasure to use giving very fine control. The panel shows that the main lines diverge at the "up" end of the station. These are re-united at the other end of the storage loops before the main line re-appears under the scenic break behind the loco shed.
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