"From Eugene to Florence"; Southern Pacific on the Coos Bay branch

[Ronald48]

Already searches in my stash for rolling stock that will participate in the coming shows. There is some old stuff and some new stuff. Most is weathered by a friend from many years ago:

 

20160802_201727 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The weather was too bad to spray-paint the bridges today.

[Ronald48]

Painted the 2 bridges today. Ready for the big job:

 

20160805_181315 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the first one in iron:

 

20160805_181645 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The first set dry:

 

20160805_185449 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And both ready:

 

20160805_192234 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Also got myself a 72 ft centerbeam fdrom walthers through the German Ebay site:

 

20160805_144947 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come!

[Ronald48]

Yesterday evening I did a test mockup with the iron-coloured bridges:

 

DSCN7069 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After dinner today I painted the swingbridge base:

 

20160806_191600 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Grey colour is on:

 

20160806_191718 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Some grey went through the seams of the tape so I had to redo some of the black on the round part:

 

20160806_193007 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The wooden part had to be primed first:

 

20160806_192134 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160806_192405 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And painted grey:

 

20160806_201418 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The result:

 

20160806_201540 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a loco on on of the truss bridges:

 

20160806_185005 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come

[Ronald48]

Did some stuff today. Painted the bridgewall on the right:

 

20160809_113728 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Still too dark I think, it has to be lighter.

Same story on the left side:

 

20160809_114046 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Also detrmined the swing of the bridge and draw that on the layout:

 

20160809_115438 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160809_121545 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This is already for work to come.

 

And then the trestles. The right one is the first to build. To determine how it "flows" in the layout I have to make a drawing starting with a piece of A4 paper:

 

 

20160809_131855 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The beginning on both sides:

 

20160809_132138 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Determined with this old tool that belonged to my dad:

 

20160809_132150 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Then i went inside to draw the track:

 

20160809_132428 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The width of the deck drawn in place:

 

20160809_133322 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued it to a baseboard:

 

20160809_134735 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Ow....... made a mistake. Had to be in mirrorview because I want to build from this base up-side-down. So I made a mirror image:

 

20160809_134743 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First there will be the ties, then the beams which carry the ties and after that the legs. The whole thing will then lie with its legs up.

A test with the ties, they will be 4,6 mm from eachother, I will take 5 mm as determined with the kits parts:

 

20160809_140241 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Total view so far with the plans and stuff needed to make this plan:

 

20160809_143017 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First staining the wood, will do that later this week. First some nightshifts to work

[Ronald48]

Did forget to place some photo's, one of them is the new hight on the JV Models drawing:

 

20160809_143738 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a setting of the board on the layout:

 

20160809_161326 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160809_161336 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And some colour tests on the kit wood and on Kappler ties:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Text above:

 

inclined = first grey, then brown stain

Straight = first brown then grey stain

 

grijs = grey    bruin = brown

 

This is to see what will look best. The trestle looks grey on photo's on the internet while the ties are more brown. That is due to the way ties are treated.

 

More to come!

[Ronald48]

Stained the first trestle kit today. I use a grey/blue woodstain that I have for years now:

 

DSCN7071 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And after 1,5 hour all 4 sizes are drying. The colour looks brown, that is caused by the light in the kitchen where I did this:

 

DSCN7074 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The ties of the kit:

 

. by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And roughly 55 Kappler ties to see if they will look better:

 

DSCN7076 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

Still had to make the carriers for the LED strips. I had a lot of leftover material so I made 2,9 cm strips out of the. I use a table cicular saw with a homemade strip to make sure my cuts are straight:

 

20160813_113917 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Yep, works like a charm!:

 

20160813_113941 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a set:

 

20160813_114605 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tonight after dinner I quickly painted them ground colour. The 12 strips, 6 pieces of 85 cm for the corner modules, 3 strips of 104 cm for the short middle module and 3 strips of 122 cm for the long middle module:

 

20160813_161635 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And in the ground colour:

 

20160813_163926 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Ready for sanding and painting

[Ronald48]

This morning I re-coloured the ties. First the longer Kappler ties:

 

20160814_113454 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After that the shorter kit ties:

 

20160814_114241 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And drying:

 

20160814_115058 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later!

[Ronald48]

You are so right, Simon

 

Made a picture in daylight:

 

20160814_131250 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The grey wood is precise what I want. The upper ties are the same material as the planks, the lower ties are the Kappler ones.

 

 

Also made a copy of the trestleleg drawing and glued it on a piece of wood:

 

20160814_195737 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later!

[Ronald48]

Simon, I used the Wenz "holzbeize": http://wenz-modellbau.eshop.t-online.de/epages/Store_Shop00671.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Shop00671/Categories/werkzeug/farbe  you can mix it wiyth water and it is very easy and friendly to use.

 

For the background I use this colour; Flexa grey-blue 1008:

 

20160815_204403 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The paint is a bit more intensive than I used on previous layouts of mine. Hope it works out the way I want it to be

 

As it looks in the jar:

 

20160815_190822 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Sanded and dustfree, waiting for the paint:

 

20160815_190705 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Halfway painting:

 

20160815_193115 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And ready, still one hour of work:

 

20160815_195654 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160815_195720 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the led carriers, also painted once and drying:

 

20160815_203526 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

Painted the strips a second time. On the previous photo's it seems that the paint has a lot of "glim". In real it doesn't look that bad.

 

The strips:

 

20160816_185216 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Drying inside and you see another collour influenced by the light inside:

 

20160816_192225 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I also did the front inside today:

 

20160816_192202 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Later more!

[Ronald48]

Tonight I started the mould for building the trestle legs. Started with the upper and middle beam:

 

20160816_210112 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Glued:

 

20160816_210348 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Next legs:

 

20160816_210747 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160816_211514 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the outer legs:

 

20160816_212127 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The base is ready:

 

20160816_212641 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

From 6 Kappler ties I make the mould for serial building:

 

20160816_213739 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This is it:

 

20160816_214432 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160816_214442 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come!

[Ronald48]

Yesterday we started the wiring of the ledstrips. My friend Ronald helped me with that. He is far better in electronics than I am, and why not accept help? I know that this time the wiring of the layout will be A1 quality.

Our workspace in front of my garage:

 

20160819_105541 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

My friend did all the soldering while I did all the other work.:

 

20160819_111107 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I taped the strips to the wood but found out the glue on the strips wasn't that great. So I used some dabs of a Dutch brand of glue to prevent the strips from falling of later in time under influence of heat:

 

20160819_111058 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160819_115058 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The 3 sets of led carriers. Front gets warmwhite, middle and back a combination of RGB and warmwhite:

 

20160819_121217 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Drilled the holes my friend wanted. I used a 22 mm speed drill:

 

20160819_131811 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The parts fit this way:

 

20160819_131817 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160819_131823 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

For getting all the wiring to one place we use the space under module 3. To do so we need the wiring to go there so I buid 2 devices to mount the chassis parts in:

 

20160819_122611 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And glued and scewed in place:

 

20160819_135442 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And finished:

 

20160819_140950 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After 2 hours it llooks like this:

 

20160819_141741 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The ledstrips; it starts like this. 4 wires on the RGB, 2 on the white. All done by my friend:

 

20160819_141926 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Then I drill some holes to lead the wires on top of the carrierstrips:

 

20160819_142519 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And mounted in the module:

 

20160819_143753 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Off course we tested the strips:

 

20160819_143915 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And they work flawless. Now we have to get the wiring to the back:

 

20160819_145522 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

4 holes in the background do lead the wires to the back:

 

20160819_151339 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And everything bundled:

 

20160819_152316 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Here a picture of us, my friend Ronald in the back soldering and me drilling holes in the front:

 

20160819_152743 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The strips for module 3 and 4 ready for wiring:

 

20160819_160814 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Module 1 and 2 are ready inside:

 

20160819_160826 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And a overview of the back:

 

20160819_160926 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tuesday night we will do a second round of wiring. In the meantime I still have a ton of work to do on the layout. First 3 days of the week I have my days off work so there wil be plenty of time to work on the layout.

 

First layer of matt on the background. Did that with Motip clear matt spraypaint::

 

20160820_151718 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160820_151728 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And second coat::

 

20160820_161018 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

It is drying now, have to determine tomorrow if this is enough.

[298]

I might just have to make the effort to go to Warley to see this, there has to be exceptional reasons for me to visit "the best voted show of the year", but this might be it...

[Ronald48]

Thanks, and hope to welcome you!

 

Big update today. Made both holes for the track in both endmodules today. Started drawing some lines:

 

20160822_095528 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Used the datasheet from the NMRA. 6,2 cm wide, 8 cm high:

 

20160822_103624 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Drilling holes:

 

20160822_104425 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And sawing with the saber saw:

 

20160822_104421 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And opened:

 

20160822_105258 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Sanded the edges for straightening the opening.

Tools I'm using:

 

20160822_110803 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The other side the same story. Drawing the lines:

 

20160822_110811 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Then the drilling. First small holes from the outer side towards the innerside, then drilling them bigger from inside to outside:

 

20160822_111044 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And cut out:

 

20160822_111951 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160822_111958 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Both holes:

 

20160822_112305 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Inner edge painted black with Revell nr 8:

 

20160822_115654 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After that I did some foaming with the builders stuff:

 

20160822_151413 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160822_151420 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

It dryes within 2 hours:

 

20160822_170906 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And cut in shape:

 

20160822_171153 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160822_171207 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Some left overs :

 

20160822_171157 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

After that I started the modules for the 180 degree turn to the fiddle yard. I got my wood from the local home depot sawn in the right size:

 

20160822_155235 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

At work I already had made some drawings, so I started with the middlepoint:

 

20160822_155718 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

From 4 mm plex I made a circular drwing tool. A nail in the middle and a hole for my pen:

 

20160822_160126 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And I draw the outer line of the corner module:

 

20160822_160218 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the rest of the lines. The inner line and 2 lines for the correct radius of the track:

 

20160822_161122 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Both plates ready for sawing. The left one has extra parts for extending the corners. That way the fiddleyard and the 4 modules are equally long:

 

20160822_163221 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Cut the corners out with the saber saw:

 

20160822_164403 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The extensions:

 

20160822_165621 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Glued on the top side:

 

20160822_165754 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And coupled on the underside with the strip and some glue and nails:

 

20160822_170502 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The stones are for extra weight during the drying proces.

 

Both ready:

 

20160822_181458 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Clamped both together to keep them straight during drying:

 

20160822_183342 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tomorrow they both get some reinforcement parts and a piece to put the leg in.

 

Later more!

[Talltim]

I'm enjoying this thread for so many reasons, the concept, the craftsmanship, the modelling and the quantity of photos. Thanks for taking the time to document the build so well.

[Ronald48]

Thank you very much, Tim I do this for some time now, and I find it important to let everyone see how I do things. I don't know if it is always the right way but hey, I'm getting there

[Ronald48]

Went on today, my goal was the corner modules. The weather was great so my workshop outside was fun to be:

 

20160823_100427 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Made a sketch on wood to guide me:

 

20160823_093732 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The leg will come under the middle of the corner module:

 

20160823_093156 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Make the leg carriers of 15 mm plex. The legs are 134, I need 142 cm height. So the leg has to "raise".

The wood:

 

20160823_094447 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This is the idea:

 

20160823_101004 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The parts ready for assembly:

 

20160823_105315 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I start with a box-like construction and use white glue and nails:

 

20160823_105720 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

2 parts to guide the leg later on:

 

20160823_110018 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The part that determines the height of the leg:

 

20160823_110135 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

On the same manner we make the other side of the assembly:

 

20160823_110545 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And we have a box!:

 

20160823_110909 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Look mama:

 

20160823_110920 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

It fits:

 

20160823_110925 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Made a hole for the leg, unfortunatly I measured wrong but corrected it and  drilled the right hole:

 

20160823_111553 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

A loose fit:

 

20160823_112909 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And I'm satisfied It goes on with the cornermodule, it gets a side protection. Glue:

 

20160823_113207 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And assembly. I nail on short distance here:

 

20160823_114516 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And drying in the sun:

 

20160823_114857 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This is the idea:

 

20160823_120423 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

To fit the corner module to the module I made a construction where the corner slides in a piece that is glued to the module. The parts and the idea:

 

20160823_124435 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The piece glued to the corner module:

 

20160823_131705 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The piece where it will slide in and which will be on the module:

 

20160823_132535 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The pieces that will hold the part:

 

20160823_132905 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And on the module:

 

20160823_133820 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

It only needs one screw to secure it so that it will not slide out accidentally.

And it can be slide out quickly (without the screw):

 

20160823_133911 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And look, it fits good:

 

20160823_134014 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The one-leg will provide enough stability when later on the fiddle yard is also bolted on. Looking and thinking I see that I made a mistake.... the centerline of the module has to line up with outer spur on the corner module. Quickly I correct this, the glue is still wet so it is no problem:

 

20160823_135249 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

That's better!:

 

20160823_144850 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And it is good:

 

20160823_144855 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The second corner module is the same as the first so no explanation here:

 

20160823_161847 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Tonight my friend and I fitted the last led strips and worked the wiring into the modules:

 

20160823_184949 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160823_191353 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160823_194338 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Also got my artistic kit:

 

20160823_162721 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

For my background, have to try it myself.....  I'm tired but satisfied for today. More to come!!

[Ozexpatriate]

Ronald,

 

I like the set up. What did you use as the side protection on the corner module? Is that thin MDF or something else?  What's the thickness?

 

I'm interested to see how your background works out. It's hard to tell precise colours from your photographs of course. What time of year/weather conditions are you modelling?

 

I plan to be driving under that bridge in about two weeks. I'd offer to stop and take pictures, but I don't know what my transportation arrangements will be. (Actually I'd love to do it but I might be riding with someone less understanding about such things including young children with an unknown level of crankiness and an excitement to get to the ocean.)

[Ronald48]

Ronald,

 

I like the set up. What did you use as the side protection on the corner module? Is that thin MDF or something else?  What's the thickness?

 

I'm interested to see how your background works out. It's hard to tell precise colours from your photographs of course. What time of year/weather conditions are you modelling?

 

I plan to be driving under that bridge in about two weeks. I'd offer to stop and take pictures, but I don't know what my transportation arrangements will be. (Actually I'd love to do it but I might be riding with someone less understanding about such things including young children with an unknown level of crankiness and an excitement to get to the ocean.)

 

Michael, I used 4 mm plex for the sides. It comes in our home depot in sheets of 122 centimeters by 61 centimeters. I let the cut shortwise, that is strips of 61 centimeters long. That way I follow the grain of the sheet so that it will follow the rounding better.

 

Background; I'm very afraid to start.... But I have a slight advantage in this. In 2013 a guy here in Holland who is model railroader and artist painted the backdrop of my 1:55n3 Civil War layout. When he painted it I took pictures and did listen well to him. So I have a sort of "guide" that hopefully helps me.

 

8550108398_2c795b7d74 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Oh, and I got a dvd from Joe Fugate, he describes very well how to paint a backdrop

 

20160824_115238 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Offer; great!!! If you want to do that I will appreciate that a whole lot! I'm still grunting in myself that I didn't took the few miles and drove there in last April because I didn't know it was there..... But if you could make me some pics; super!

The guy could drop you there in time they do the ocean the distance is not that far.

 

I will send you my mail adress so contacting me is somewhat easier.

[Ozexpatriate]

Offer; great!!! If you want to do that I will appreciate that a whole lot! I'm still grunting in myself that I didn't took the few miles and drove there in last April because I didn't know it was there..... But if you could make me some pics; super!

I'm travelling with my brother and his young family. At this point I don't know if we'll all be in one car or not. I may even be driving myself. 

 

I like the civil war layout photograph by the way.

[Ronald48]

I like the civil war layout photograph by the way.

 

Thank you Michael. I build it in 2013 for a half-year exhibition in our National Railway Museum. It did some exhibitions in the Netherlands and some European country's.

[Ronald48]

Today a big update which starts on wednesday. there I made the connection points to the staging yard:

 

20160831_161742 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Nails and glue:

 

20160831_130627 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And in place:

 

20160831_131007 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Both are ready:

 

20160831_162851 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the workspace, weather was great this week and gives me the space I need:

 

20160831_164235 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

For the legs of the stagingyard I needed 6 cm more height. Therefore I made these from 9 mm plex:

 

20160831_175502 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160831_175910 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Measuring the place for the set:

 

20160831_175916 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And one ready:

 

20160831_201448 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And some more:

 

20160831_201521 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

At night my friend came by to work on the electric:

 

20160831_192715 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160831_202320 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160831_204313 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160831_210711 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160831_222115 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The connection cables between the modules:

 

20160831_222136 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

 20160831_222156 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160831_222205 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

White strips working:

 

20160831_220009 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The last leg finished in the dark:

 

20160831_205640 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

With some drinks:

 

20160831_213353 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Also got the power unit from China, it has 10amps. A second one is on the way:

 

20160830_224117 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Thursday: still great weather. Today I have to adjust the staging yard, so I made 2 sets of modules:

 

20160901_100847 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

All on the ground to line everything up:

 

20160901_103114 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Connections are made with 10 mm bolts:

 

20160901_105607 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Connected the pieces that holds everything in line:

 

20160901_130236 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And then all up on its feet:

 

20160901_130542 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

3rd piece:

 

20160901_133513 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And I'm satisfied:

 

20160901_134419 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

A quick test:

 

20160901_141732 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160901_143302 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Made the connections for the booster(s):

 

20160901_145600 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160901_145621 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160901_145409 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This way I can connect it on both sides if necessary. 

After that I had to made the connections of the round modules to the staging. I srewed them temporarely to each other:

 

20160901_152505 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160901_152716 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Other side:

 

20160901_155036 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160901_155041 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Legs are ready and tight together for the first show end of October:

 

20160901_163644 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

At night my friend came back and brought some Roco modules with him for the turnouts. I mounted and programmed them:

 

20160901_195848 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Special Roco connectors:

 

20160901_205817 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160901_210419 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Me hard at work, night caught up with us:

 

IMG-20160901-WA0003 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And then its friday, I started by removing 1 turnout on each side of the staging. That way I create 1 long spur that starts on either side just next to the front modules. The first one:

 

20160902_102825 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Some stuff removed:

 

20160902_110232 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Removing the solder pins:

 

20160902_111036 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Fitting a new piece of track to go straight:

 

20160902_112420 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

En verder door op de 2e module. Ik heb gekozen alles vast te zetten met 2,5 mm schroefjes met een 3 mm plaatje eronder. Voorstel van Ronald en het werkt meer dan geweldig zo:

 

20160902_120847 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

New spur:

 

20160902_121401 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160902_121917 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160902_122152 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Workstation:

 

20160902_133249 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Starting the first corner module, fitting the turnout:

 

20160902_133909 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160902_134432 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160902_134533 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I use Peco 100 track because all on the staging is 100:

 

20160902_135610 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

First piece:

 

20160902_140452 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160902_140923 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Soldered together:

 

20160902_142427 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Drive connected:

 

20160902_143026 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

2nd:

 

20160902_143409 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Fit and attach, works great:

 

20160902_144234 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And finished. All soldered to brass screws:

 

20160902_150641 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The workload of today!:

 

20160902_154142 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Finished the secondd part of the staging:

 

20160902_170606 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

3 days of hard labour but it was worth it, i made good progress. Tomorrow a little wiring to do at the led strips. later!

[Ronald48]

Today I finished the 2nd corner module:

 

20160903_154245 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160903_155822 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

My friend did some tuning with the led strips, not every piece did what it had to do:

 

20160903_155835 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160903_165318 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

This was what I had left over from 11 flex rail:

 

20160903_164218 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And my friend had all strips work correctly at the end of the afternoon:

 

20160903_171303 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

These things where under the staging yard, build by a previous owner. I re-used them:

 

20160903_164831 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Controllers are on the back, a fixed one for white and a RGB controller with wireless control:

 

20160903_171613 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And I had my corner modules ready:

 

20160903_171835 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And already time to go:

 

20160903_174104 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

My friend gave me some "homework" for preparing some work. I quickly mounted the cables for the turnouts which are going to be controlled from the staging yard DCC controllers:

 

20160903_191016 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the cable mounted:

 

20160903_191504 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Marking and numbering:

 

20160903_193207 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

At the turnout side:

 

20160903_193241 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the two are almost ready:

 

20160903_195339 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come!

[Ronald48]

A job that is on the to-do list is the adaption of my DCC stuff. The wiring has to be replaced because I'm suffering under some strange flaws that causes shutdowns on the layouts that are used with it. This is the one:

 

20160905_161431 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The XpressNet wiring. Not acceptabel:

 

20160905_164242 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Too thin:

 

20160905_164624 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

The old wiring out:

 

20160905_170025 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And started the new wiring.:

 

20160905_184218 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Made a carrier for the connectors:

 

20160905_190913 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160905_191115 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160905_191120 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And connected to the wiring:

 

20160905_193359 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And almost ready:

 

20160905_195305 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

A while ago I made a second case with 2 extra boosters and a interface. This also got new sturdy wiring:

 

20160906_100753 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And the connectors for the boosters and cde connection:

 

20160906_105733 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160906_112024 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

Both cases ready:

 

20160906_112519 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

And connected: it works!:

 

20160906_114209 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

I now have sufficient power on my layouts. For this layout I will use 2 boosters; 1 foor the front modules and the corner modules, and 1 for the staging yard. That way the load on everything is balanced.

 

Also got me some chinese panel indicators for the leds. Works good, first pictur is the load on 60%, the second on 100% (only white):

 

20160907_100846 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

20160907_100852 by Ronald-45, on Flickr

 

More to come!