Eighton Bahn AKA testing testing RhB

[Chris Vernell]

Speaking as someone who is now on his fourth, or is it fifth , rethink of how a certain simple junction should be laid out ...
Yours looks good

 

[Nodrog1826]

Finally managed to get the offending bridge rail clamp to play ball, and it is now re fitted.
I could go into the long winded detail of how I had an epic battle to fettle it, or I could just say I replaced the offending rail.
It was almost as easier to sort out the offending fishplate, just change it for a one with a longer expansion slot, job done.

Anyhow another project sort of started...

Remember those cheap Chinese lights that I wanted to extend, but distroyed one in the process, well it's now two, but I have come up with a plan, involving short biro pens.

Pictures will explain it better...







I may just go with the shorter version.

 

[Nodrog1826]

Decided to stick with the shorter version...10 out of a potential 16



They are a push fit until I decide on the final height.

Now just need to install the platforms, drill through where the lights will go, wire back to the station building, and power it via a suitable decoder.

 

[stockers]

DCC lights - I like it.

 

[mike]

Nicely done

 

[Nodrog1826]

DCC lights - I like it.

I may have to make decoder plural, as each bulb draws 100 ma at 12v, but I was planning to extend the bulb life by running at 9v.
Also as I have broken a bulb head, I might see if a lgb 5v bulb will fit. (Note to self, need to get some more 5v bulbs.)

Anyhow decided to see how one looked in the fading evening light yesterday, or dodgy picture time...







You get a better idea with shed lights on, which sort of defeats the purpose...



...still a dodgy picture though.

 

[dunnyrail]

I may have to make decoder plural, as each bulb draws 100 ma at 12v, but I was planning to extend the bulb life by running at 9v.
Also as I have broken a bulb head, I might see if a lgb 5v bulb will fit. (Note to self, need to get some more 5v bulbs.)

Anyhow decided to see how one looked in the fading evening light yesterday, or dodgy picture time...

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You get a better idea with shed lights on, which sort of defeats the purpose...

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...still a dodgy picture though.

Nice lamps now that the extended pole has been designed and inplemented. Just wonder if you are changing bulbs, would bright LED's fit? You could probably run a complete layouts worth on 1 decoder with perhaps 2 separate lighting zones as well.
JonD

 

[Nodrog1826]

Nice lamps now that the extended pole has been designed and inplemented. Just wonder if you are changing bulbs, would bright LED's fit? You could probably run a complete layouts worth on 1 decoder with perhaps 2 separate lighting zones as well.
JonD

The bulbs are set up like the plug in lgb ones, with the "shade" sort of shrink wrapped onto it, ( I'll try to get some pictures later, camera battery needs a charge.) but I have thought of LED's if I could just get a fine enough connection pins as it were.

 

[Neil Robinson]

I have thought of LED's if I could just get a fine enough connection pins as it were.

I swapped LGB 5V plug in bulbs for cheapo Chinese white 5mm leds on a loco when I chipped it. It was straightforward swap, of course suitable resistors need to be wired in somewhere in circuit.

 

[stockers]

or just use a simple relay switch. I used old car replays from ebay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-X-Car-T...137723&hash=item2cbc944c9c:g:qdYAAOSwZLhY2nPH

 

[Nodrog1826]

More dodgy pictures.

These are the bulbs in question as supplied and disassembled.

L/H is a spare head, pre, cut tails and heat shrunk on.



...and compared to a LGB 5v bulb...they are 11mm x 5mm



...don't get me wrong, but I bought 18 and the sent as may spare heads as well.

 

[Nodrog1826]

It's been second hand/second hand replacement time this morning,

or,

my parcel from Germany has arrived.

So without too much of an ado...













...all because...



...the repair made prior to me getting it has started to fail, and the pins had caused an short to other rails on the underside, so I patched it up as best as I could.

It needs a proper fix, which is beyond my skills and dexterity, so out it came.

 

[Nodrog1826]

...continuing on...

Point has arrived at pastures new, where hopefully it can be fixed and then used.

Meanwhile, back at Eighton Bahn Towers, attention has turned to the platforms and lamps, or to put it another way. Who's daft idea was it to use floor tiles and then drill holes through them!!!

Well after a false start, a blunted drill bit, a shattered tile bit and two shattered tiles, we have...









They are just a test fit, infact a very tight fit, not connected to any power supply yet. They may well just over winter to see how they survive, prior to connection up.

Mind You I have yet to decide where the station building is going on the other platform, prior to adding the platform lights.

 

[Nodrog1826]

The lamps continue to weather/suffer the effects of birds/cats/fox or the attentions of a certain Border Terrier.

But I may replace them with a LED version, think I have mucked up in the amperage dept., 100 ma x 10 is going to make the track power situation interesting, what with locos, sound and coach lights.

Anyhow, not all doom and gloom.

Found something of a rare beast on Ebay in the US, watched it fail to sell at the first go, so took a punt on the re-list, I was the only bidder.
After almost three weeks for post and Customs, collected it today...

The first diesel of the fleet...

 

[Nodrog1826]

Here we are six/seven months on, and the overwinter project has resulted in one lamppost casualty, which given the snaa is a success.



...you can just make out the failed lamp head next to the dwarf conifer.

So to bring things bang up to date....as in I have just finished this one...









...D4, 04 or diesel 1, depending on which way you look at it fleet wise, now has Massoth Auto Couplers fore and aft.

Note for anyone else who has a go at one of these locos. Needed to file down the coupler and the operating housing slightly to get them to fit.

So that is now 60% of the fleet done the other 40% (Both of them.) will have to wait, only parts in stock to do one.
Both will require major surgery, as well as pantograph modifications, and one needs sound as well.

 

[Nodrog1826]

So back to my station lamp project, remember that, well I have abandoned it....sort of.

I found these on that bidding site, from China, so why not.



...advantages over my light/pen shaft lash up are...solid one piece unit, taller, low milliamp 3v leds, as compared to 100 milliamp 12v bulbs. fixed heads, and three of them more illumination, and that threaded bit on the bottom, which smaller than the drilled holes in the platform.



...if I only had some small rubber washers I could use to act as bushing...well...



...so I bought 16 of them, will have plenty of spares...



...test fit within the last few mins...



...another advantage, the colour blends in, so the do not stand out, when viewed from "outside" as it were.

Not sure how to arrange the heads as it were, uniform or staggered, 1,2 and 2,1 facing the platform edges or set them set them centrally.

 

[Rhinochugger]

So back to my station lamp project, remember that, well I have abandoned it....sort of.

I found these on that bidding site, from China, so why not.

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...advantages over my light/pen shaft lash up are...solid one piece unit, taller, low milliamp 3v leds, as compared to 100 milliamp 12v bulbs. fixed heads, and three of them more illumination, and that threaded bit on the bottom, which smaller than the drilled holes in the platform.

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...if I only had some small rubber washers I could use to act as bushing...well...

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...so I bought 16 of them, will have plenty of spares...

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...test fit within the last few mins...

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...another advantage, the colour blends in, so the do not stand out, when viewed from "outside" as it were.

Not sure how to arrange the heads as it were, uniform or staggered, 1,2 and 2,1 facing the platform edges or set them set them centrally.

It's a railway platform - uniformally

 

[Nodrog1826]

Missed opportunity to run stuff this weekend, busy with other things, as posted in todays Coffee bit...

But this afternoon has resulted in some jobs ticked of the list...

Levelled the dropped track section...



Bridge(s) washed to shift bird crap...





Unsupported point section is now supported...



Two road MPD., is now three road, as I have laid some more slabs...





...more progress in the last few hours than all of last year.

Now look at those vacant spaces either side of the MPD., you would think they were crying out for a building.

 

[dunnyrail]

Missed opportunity to run stuff this weekend, busy with other things, as posted in todays Coffee bit...

But this afternoon has resulted in some jobs ticked of the list...

Levelled the dropped track section...

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Bridge(s) washed to shift bird crap...

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Unsupported point section is now supported...

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Two road MPD., is now three road, as I have laid some more slabs...

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...more progress in the last few hours than all of last year.

Now look at those vacant spaces either side of the MPD., you would think they were crying out for a building.

This search came up with lots of possibilities and a lot that were no good for you!

pictures of railway swiss small huts

 

[Nodrog1826]

The what will now be the station lights battery box cover kit, turned up this morning.

Not sure exactly where it will be plonked, as placing will not be that accurate.







...the "Board" is just a look and see fit, it fell off just after the picture was taken.