Because sunday the forum was not in the air, I thought it might be nice to post some pictures on mondy. Just to make the start of the week a bit better…
The new rectifier at the crossing. As you whatch closely, you’ll see the light working too…
It’s in the evening and the rectifier rumbles out of the tunnel at the west side of the station.
Meanwhile on the southern junction a train has derailed. The crane has sent for help and lifts the car back onto the tracks.
A huge train with a Gp and an sd28 is heading for the canyon. Both diesels have to work hard to get the train through the sharp curves in the mountaintrack.
The rectifier pics the last sunbeams while crossing the bridge
The rails are clear again, so the work train is back to where it came from. (a cardboard box under the layout[:D])
I also have some short movies, but I can’t get them on the website… Too big (2mb for a 10 sec movie) If anyone wants them, I can email some…
Yes, very nice Daan ! I used to work on a steam wrecker when I first hired out on the Penn Central. Was hard work, but we had a coach & my favorite was the diner car ! The cooks made some really good food then. Thanks for sharing those pics. John
Nice pictures guys!
Dann I saw that do use old marklin stuff thats right?
I have two markling O gauge turnout and they match perfect with lionel stuff.
derailiment free!
but they are manual.
good job
Andre.
That’s right Andre, I have old Märklin tracks. It’s cheap to get and there are is plenty of it around in europe, unlike the Lionel tracks. There are 2 different turnouts. The ones marked with “8” and the ones with “12”. It indicates the turnout radius. The 12 ones have a small problem when running Williams engines, but the problem is in the engines themselves. The pickup rollers move downwards too much and get stuck where the tracks leading into the frog. Simply reduce downward movability in the pickup rollers to solve that.
The old Märklin switches can’t be easily rebuilt for electric operation. I rebuild mine for operation with bowden cable’s, which is also working great. The 12 turnout I have is an electric one and only works with one coil. The mechanism inside works like a ballpoint. One push from the coil is curve, the next push from the coil is straight again. Works also trouble free, but an indication on the switches position is not possible when the switch is out of visibility.
Derailments are scarce, but if they occur, a slight bending of the guiding rails near the frog is mostly the best solution. See my website for more information.
The layout I built in 3 weeks will be dismantled this weekend so I can put my full concentration into planning for my pond and waterfalls in the backyard, along with an outside 3-rail pike that will be my final layout (until I get restless again, at least).
Here are the last pictures I’ll show of the world’s fastest built and dismantled layout (diorama using 027 rails):
Hi andre,
The website can be reached by clicking the “web-icon” which is on the
bottom of every post I make.
Or: http://communities.zeelandnet.nl/data/lionel if the browser picks it up as website
adress. Not everything is translated yet, so if you have further questions. feel free to email me.
