woensdag 20 januari 2016

Signal bridge part 2

This morning I went on with the bridge. This is my work space:


The first crossbrace:


All 3 in place, testfitting the legs:


First leg glued on:


And with both:


The floorboard that is with the bridge. It has to be shortened according to the photo:


Shortened:


And testfitted with the top together on the bridge:


This is what is provided for the electric wire that is necessary to power the lights on the bridge:


I will not use that and try to find the thinnest wire possible.

More to come!

dinsdag 19 januari 2016

Building the Summit signal bridge

I started the signal bridge today. Modified it to look more like the one on Cascade Summit:


Started with a IHC kit:



The IHC one has to little girders in it. Also the prototype has a cross in the middle, due to the construction of the IHC kit I made two crosses in the middle.

 The photos with the sprue's:


Made some extra girders to look like the prototype:


First side finished:


And with the second one:


More to come!


zondag 3 januari 2016

Decoders

Have some older DCC decoders, printed there descriptions so that I can experiment with them for the coming days:


This!

This is what I am seeking in this layout, the typical SP operations in the mountains:

 




Photos are from: http://spcascades.railfan.net/