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Great to see progress Bryn.  The colouring of everything is really on the money to my eyes.

I like the DDR era lettering on the factory on Wittenberger Straße.  Is it VEB Leipziger Bekleidungs Werk?

Thanks for the explanation, I could imagine that using OHLE current draw to set points could have problems as street traffic did unpredictable things!

Hi Dom,

It would be great to see pictures of the engineering works themselves.  On the Tatra Gro

I hope you haven't got exactly the same ones, they'll be underscale for Hasselhof..

Working from the tiebar's length of movement as the distance of a 90 degree arc, so in this case 2mm.

Length=[angle x (pi/180)] x radius(ie crank lenth)

2=90 x 0.0175 x radius

2 = 1.575 x radius

2/1.575 = radius

1.27 = radius/crank length

Edit:  I go to the pub and realise that I grossly overcomplicated things, and to cap it all off that gives you an incorrect answer.  Triangles are a better way to work.  In this case, it's a right angled triangle, so the square root of half the square of the hypoteneuse gives you the crank length.

Is this an exhibition layout?

 

Bill

Probably, it's built to be portable.  It'll depend upon how well it can be protected for transport once OLE and signals are in place.

Looking good ! the owner of my local model shop MIB Models in porthcawl models in TT and he keeps quite good stocks of the stuff haven't been tempted .........yet !!! but I keep looking !!!!

Though Porthcawl is a long way from me, I'll have to give him a call to find out what he stocks and see what his prices are like!

I know what you mean, I just have a desire to make things as accurate as I can within my own knowledge and ability. For now the focus is a scenic refresh, stock comes afterwards. I have really realised lately that save for glaring errors I'd rather spend my time on scenic work than stock.

Now , if it was colour lights then that might be different with the ex DR Hl signals...

Therein lies the problem... Bad Horn uses DB Hp light signals!

it dictates what you need to do by a given date - in so doing sucking some enjoyment out of the workbench evenings, making things a chore occasionally.

I find the motivation of deadlines vital

I can identify with both sides of the argument as far as deadlines go. I don't think Bad Horn would have been completed in anything like the timescale it was if I hadn't been invited to a show. On a small project such as this there wasn't too much tedium, but if I had a large layout that needed ballasting or all the track painting it would be a different story.

The next slot at my local exhibition is 2015(!), so that's a deadline to complete something really impressive by. I suppose if nothing else Bad Horn offers me a fallback should a follow-on project not be completed in time!

At this moment there are three contenders for the next project: trains running through a landscape in N, an H0 depot (I'm watching ebay for Fleischmann turntables at the moment!) and an O14 canal restoration scene. I may work on two (or all three) concurrently to give me an escape should I hit a wall on one.

I did get a 298 in the end- cracking runner, and really looks the business on the layout.

I hope you're proud- it's looking great. With some trees it'll really start to get that Black Forest feel

Seeing this really makes me consider a multi-scale approach to modelling- small scale scenic grandeur, and larger scale for shunting. The challenges of replicating a landscape rather than just buildings is something I had assumed to be tricky, you're 100% reliant on your own interpretation of photographs and perhaps some basic dimensional data. Good luck with it!

Was the N-Wagen a Wittenberge cab fitted Steuerwagen? I've seen a few pictures of both ex-Silberling and Halberstadt types on services radiating from Frankfurt am Main, eg http://www.bahnbilder.de/name/einzelbild/number/470404/kategorie/Deutschland~Wagen~Steuerwagen+Bauart+Wittenberge.html

If you need any excuse to buy Roco's excellent model of these, this could be it.

HI Friso,<div><br></div><div>I envisage normal operation as out and back from the large station, perhaps passing another train at the small one.  The balloon loop at bottom right wouldn't be normally used by branch trains, instead trains go out and back from it suggesting another route.  Of course, my intention is that when I want to I can simply set a train running around and around, here I can some good shunting when I want to, and hands off roundy roundy when I don't. <img src="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" alt="" class="bbc_emoticon"></div>

For now I'll start by carefully stripping Steinrücken back to frame level. If I was to be sensible, I should spend the next few months developing technique, eg OHLE construction. Of course, in my mind the best way to do this is to make a small layout, and I'm back to indecision...

Ah well. Matinee Idle's on later, so I'll hit the garage and carry on with my deconstructions!

I'm fairly confident that I know what's out there, to the extent that I have made a spreadsheet of available locomotive models- the 628 DMU Supaned mentions is coming from Kres for example. My next step is coaching stock, although off the top of my head most major types are represented, just those key dostos lacking- I do hope that Kühn follow up their as-built Görlitz dostos with the refurbished ones running today. There are a surprising number of dosto varients running, so I can understand why only a couple have been made.

There's more makes than mentioned above, but I have to go out now, so no time to list them all!

I find myself wondering whether the smaller range could actually be an advantage- there being less opportunity for me to buy things I don't need for a given project.

Hey Supaned,

It's not really an era or location thing, for this at least I have a good vision which is pretty well the same regardless of scale.

I've never seen Berlin Revisited, I'd like to... I can see how that would work. City Classics is kind of the opposite to the Berlin or Dresden area where the main lines are higher than the shunting lines, so taking the mainline offscene would be trickier. But H0 does appeal to the magpie in me for those tangental possibilities...

Cheers!

Well, the helices are no more, the base level framework for this plan is sat in the garage. And, as so often, I look at the physical size of it and think "Man, TT would be awesome here". But I must resist! I'm trying to use things I have rather than buying things in.

How long would the journey to Budapest take? My understanding was that the Railjet concept was launched to target the business traveller, so I guess the target market is for journeys between intermediate stops at various points between the two cities. Being generous and assuming a nine hour journey time, I doubt many business people would take that as an option!

No worries Will- you can come round and have a play anytime! Same goes for you as well Roger.

Looking good there Bryn, and it really shows the advantage of 2mmFS in appearance over N.

A quick update that's not worth an entry on its own. Using 10 diodes wired in reverse parallel on each rail feed, ie 20 diodes in total with 10 effective on each wave, I have dropped the track voltage to 14 volts. I thought each diode was supposed to give a drop of 0.7 volts, but in this case with 1N4004s it seems to be 0.8 per diode. No big deal, what's a volt between friends? As 1N4004s are rated for 4 amps, and this layout is only likely to have two trains moving at any one time (and not at full whack) I'm happy with that. Saturday will be the test, 8 hours solid running. Wish me luck. And if you happen to come to RailEx, Wellington NZ this weekend, do say hello. I'm next to the Maerklin Model Railway club's H0 layout "Bergtalbahn".

Yeah, I fully intend to- I need to have the time to compose it before sending it, atm concentrating on show readiness!