As Emily’s tram is almost ready she has taken more interest in the finishing touches (not as boring as painting.)
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Note the Captain Carrales advert.
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This was the first time I have had all my scratchbuilt trams in one place for a picture.
However,the trams were about to be cast aside by the children.This was a train day.Emily and Oscar prepare the rolling stock to their bizarre taste.
Oscar tells the signal box that the train should have stopped 10 inches ago.
Never did like that buffer stop anyway.
Troy,
Mucho applause! Your dads line? Fantastic mate, I’ll have to buy more track now and get a second line going at my place. Nice to see Joe’s name up in lights.
Cheers,
Kim
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Yes Kim.Dad’s line.If I did that to my garden my wife would kill me.Plus I like the green stuff too much.I like to take my stuff up there and give it all a good run around.Iandor’s dream.LGB heaven!
Thanks as always, for the Advert on your very well built tram!!! I am yet to begin work on thta “ironic” item we discussed (mostly due to the fact the school is but two week away and the pupils have declared war on education), but I think the Betts Family (fictional) will play a prominent role in the settlement of the Micaela Valley.
If I may comment on the layout…it is spectacular!!!
your layout is absolutely fabulous. I only wish I had that much room for that many trains and switches. About your switches, how do you control them? Are they remote controlled from a hand held unit such as the walkaround engineer? And what make of switch are they? USA trains, or Aristo? I can only imagine that you have a million miles of wires barried under all that. But they are well thought out and look great. Any help you could give me on how to control my 2 switches would be greatly appreciated.
I was just reviewing your pics once again and admiring your fine work when I noticed something about your trams that I’d ignored in the past. I know that you build accurate replicas of prototype trams so it occured to me that the ratio of height to width on the double-deckers seems to be extremely large, to the point of looking unstable. How do the prototype trams react to strong crosswinds?
Hello Walt.I 've never really thought about this before.They must have coped quite well as I’ve only ever seen a few pictures of them on their sides.I assume that the weight of the trucks against a light wooden structure compensates.I’ll ask.
cutlass12001–
This is my father’s layout.The whole lot is LGB as that is what he started with and the availability of other manufacturers has always been limited in the UK.The layout is analogue and you are right there are thousands of wires.It’s all controlled from the signal box with row upon row of switches.I have no idea how to control it,it’s far too compicated.I usually end up with 3 trains facing each other and have to hit the stop buttons.I think about 5 or 6 trains can run together on separate circuits.
As to controlling points,there are many ways of doing this.Depends on what system you have or what you want to do.
