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Hi all,, the first station module that runs off the the spiral front conrer module has being modifyied to take two station scenes, I am modelling Sydney Central station terminal, that wont be happening till the end of the year or eary next year so I be modelling East Perth station terminal first where the famous Indian Pacific her journey from Sydney, being on a budjet I have to build the everything in stages, all up there are 6 station modules that completes the station complex. The idea is once the Indian Pacific leaves Sydney Central I will lift out the whole station building to change the modules to a differeent scene, the Perth terminal building isn't as big as Sydney Central, all the fun in running trains The top pic is with the cover lilted out, looking at the last pic the left hand second last pic, what I am modelling when the Sydney Central building is in place, I will be also modelling all the front arches road level, where the buses are there is a walk way as well and shop windows,, in last pic. The third pic is what I hope the scene be like when finished, the second pic is what I will be modelling first up and my favourite pic of the Indian Pacific, I have that loco NR28 loco name Port Augusta, a lot of our locos are named after towns and 18 Lima passenger cars in pic four, NR28 now has a new IP colour scheme and they did away with her name pit can't keep up. The second stage of 3 station modules I am thinking of making them 3ft wide so I can make my version of Sydney Central wide , had to cup back four sets of windows each side of the building, in HO scale the building be about 8feet wide ., there are 15 terminus platforms, five suburban platforms I am only having two suburban platforms and about 8 terminus platforms. The first module is ready for painting I may get a chance before it start getting hot tomorrow, we are having a heat wave hit us this weekend, Sunday being the hottest peaking over 43 degrees, cool change coming in Tuesday ozam from hot down under keeping on moving ahead

Hi all time to talk about my layout which has being under construction since 2014 coming into the third year, I did start off modelling the Tehachapi loop but gave that idea away when I realised it wasn't going to work out well came up with a different design, yes have my layout is in under cover in the pergola which covers 3/4 of the back of the house and car port mainly the station complex that is protected from the hot sun. The layout design is a module design, I can't have it set up permanently, one reason why it is taking longer to build, layout measurements are 52ft X 30ft stage one, I will extend more on after the layout is up and running which I hope to run the first test loco in April on half of the layout , from the back of the house left corner module to around to the spiral and all the front modules through to the car port and around to the right corner back corner module. I am modelling the layout on the GSR route, Great Southern Railway owns the famous Indian Pacific, Ghan, Overlander and Southern Spirit, my Indian Pacific has18 passenger cars plus two IP NR class locos, the station is modelled on Sydney Central station building, my model won't be to full scale mainly the width of the building, the building to scale be over 6ft in width, mine I had to cut back 5 windows on each side but still be a stunning site indeed. The Indian Pacific starts her journey from Sydney via Adelaide to Perth, the journey takes three days and two nights, on peak time the IP have 28 passenger cars which I have other passenger cars I can use the train has to be split up on two platforms, my layout I will have to await to stage two of the station complex to do that, being on a budget is I can't build the whole layout, doing it in stages, Sydney wont be built to later, I will be modelling East Perth terminal the end of her journey, sure be a fast clock time table indeed. And freight train in between passenger trains, hope it's not too long before I switch to DCC Back to the construction I have built curve sections so they can slot together with ease and not too much on my knees, same with the wiring be plug and play I will explain as I move along how I did track curved joins, the modules bolt together, the first station module is different to the other station modules pics of that to follow Here is a rough plan of my layout , pic two is of all the front approach modules both ends and three station modules, all the front modules has four legs to make it easy to join up and bolt together, stage two of the front of the layout construction be the car port area which be on a two present grade down to the back corner module onto the cable stay bridge I be building length 27feet double deck bridge., modelled on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden I wanted a modern bridge. This layout is my dream layout so if I build it in stages she will get completes, nearly there, I got back into the hobby in 1995, I actually have a loco running number NR95, my first Aussie diesel NR class loco to pull my Indian Pacific More to come keep posted, ozam from down under keeping on moving ahead, enjoy

HI all, don't worry about how to split a windows edge screen, question found out how it is done, it's not splitting the screen in half, you actually open two tabs to the left hand side of the screen were the how to wire a rotary switch open two tags there quite easy once you know how, in any case edge won't let you do that . ozam from down under.

I bit the dust and bought a multimter a long waiting tool, the guy in Jar-Car surjusted to go the next model up, now I will have to larn how to use, hopefully the guys at the train club on Saturday be able to, wont be running too many trains that day as I want to get the rotary switch issue sorted out. I will be taking my famous Hornby Flying Scott she has two powered dual tender drive tenders , pulls 11 coaches with ease,being told I am the only member hat has done it , have to sort out the coaches some of them keep derailing on points mainly. Does anyone know how to split the screen with windows edge, Chrome used the Tab button. ozam from down under

Hi ejstubbs and kevinims, many thanks for the advice on the multimeter , I am going to Jar-car tomorrow to buy a elbow for the TV antenna plug in the wall will check the multimeter, will let you know if I will buy one , not a bad price under $20 I should have one , not sure what DCC system to buy when I go that way thinking of Hornby, they have a model that will connect to the computer, that way my son can get involved and control the layout on his computer. I have a bit of time yet before needing a control panel, looking a modifying my old control panel from the last layout till I decide what switches to use. Ready to pant the three station modules have to buy some more putty as the stuff I had dried up and the lid was closed tight get some different stuff, too hot during the day peaked 35 in under the pergola did some work after tea, what's it like in Launching Place, is it still snowing in the UK you can send some snow my way to cool us down osam from down under.

Hi ejstubbs, yes I can wire DPDT switches, the last layout was DC Dual control , blocks just learnt how to wire in a third throttle adding a third DPDT and a forth throttle becoming Local throttles, that is one tool I don't have is a multimeter, looks like I will have to invest in one, the question is do to need a dear one or cheap one and I will have learn to use it, would of saved shorting out my transformer it doesn't have a fuse as such either have to have a look at it . My other two made up transformers do have fuses not going to use the rotary switches to I sort them out hopefully get some help at my train club next Saturday, will wire up the DPDT switches, layout is not far away all the front modules to the front right corner module, spiral is built on the left hand side, needs to be painted track laid wiring, need the join up the blocks, if I can't this transformer will have to replace it. osam from down under

Hi BR60103, I drew that wairing plan by free hand, going to build a temporary control panel using a couple of DPDT switches to switch the throttles till I sort out the rotary switch, like to buy to newest Model Railroader wiring mag will have more up to date wiring and ihas DCC wiring as well. It is pretty hot here in oz today peaking 38 degrees, will be higher than that in the sun I use an old remote that has a temp gauge in it, put it out under the pergola as the weather station at Amberley RAAF base is inside a small shed that has insulation, I go by the remote temp can be 8 degree difference. Not much work on the layout, only later afternoon what I did yesterday , replacing the screws for countersunk quarter inch bolts using those T bolts in the module leg three of the station modules are ready to be painted. Time to move over to the garden railway thread, will keep everyone posted on the progress of wiring the rotary switch. Bye from ozam down under keeping on moving a head.

Hi David can I ask you a favour to draw ther way you wire the 3pole 4way rotary switch, there are so may different ways to wire them and soconfusing to pic the right one, I have the Easy Model Railroad wiring mag and they have a different version with switching three throttles using a 4way switch, so the first 4 be uesd for the LED indicators. I also came across a PDF file on more info on the 3pole 44way rotary switch. http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Labs/docs/RotarySwitchHowTo.pdf Here is a pic of the drawing from the mag will that work and how do I wire in a forth throttle Found in the garden railway thread a couple of 00 scale garden railway layout, nice where I will start a thread on the construction of my layout, being at it now for a couple of years all the front modules for the station complete is finished ready to paint, spiral is done need to set up the cut bottom track base of the spiral, all that needs doing is the massive 24foot cable stay double deck bridge in 4 sections, layout is a module design. Just found out that it pays to have files attachments ready to paste as where you go back from your favourites folder, you lose what you have typed out ozam from down under, keeping on moving a head.

Hi BR60103, I love what you have suggested singing off as ozam, not your first name am is my name initials actually I got the idea from the movie Silver Strick railroad name on the coaches AM RailRoad. Looks like I am stuck with Dual cab control till I fix the trannie ,it is clicking pretty loud, must of shorted out some where. ozam from down under

Hi still having a problem with the rotary switch, overloaded a switch in the trannie makes a noise when I switch it on have to wait for a while for it to cool down, I think I may have to give the idea of using a rotary switch and go back to DPDT switches and hopefully use LEDS to high light each throttle, got plenty of DPDT switches, disappointing morning, may be able to sort it out when I go to my train club or any other ideas welcome, very frustrating.. Yes David I could only get to positions working . ozamrr from down under.

Many thanks everyone for the quick response I though of wiring the rotary that way so did a drawing why I joined the forum to get advice which I have, that link has a lot of info to ready and again more ideas. SRman are you from down under going by the DURM I will check them out. I will solder the RS that way, I did try it the way on the drawing did work but I had the solder the track wire onto the pole used by the LEDs, (A) B instead of B-C actually worked was over the moon but your way is better. Going to make lots of new friend as I go along I find the pics easy to upload from my pic folder, more pics tomorrow and a video clip of the rotary switching , you guys said it wasn't a good idea to have DCC switching from the rotary switch, will make full use of the four positions , two mainline trains and two locals for shunting at the station and siding, the electronic shop I buy my stuff from the biggest rotary switch they sell is a 6 position switch. Do I put my first name here when signing off or user name ozamrr

Hi all I am from down under, found this forum when searching how to wire a rotary switching more than one throttle, found the control panel thread went from there so here I am, many thanks. Got back into the hobby in 1995 when I built my first module layout after we had a big covered pergola built, I used DPDT switch between two throttles, till I came across 00 scale garden railway, 2014 when the construction started, the only way to build a huge layout is garden way mine is module taking a lot longer to build, not far now from running the first test loco. Time to start designing the new control panel, want to run more than two trains the rotary switch will do the job, I have drawn up a plan on back of the switch, is this the correct way or do I have to split the pins into groups of four, the first four are for the LED indicator, have I wired the switch going by the pic correctly. Here is the drawing pic of behind the rotary switch, second pic is of stage one of my station complex with approach modules two from the car port and one where the spiral starts, the bus wires be plug and play easy to join and bolt the modules together, the track on the left of the pic will go out past the corner steel post hand rails on the path way. ozamrr from down under