Mocking up Household Fuel, Stanley Svea, and the grocery wholesaler.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Construction
What's this? The office taking shape and a new extension to the layout. The angled wing will be coming off.
If it looks familiar, it should. It's the old Whiting Street Yard deck moved to a new location.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Berlin Line Realignment
Working on the new alignment for the Berlin Line (this will be the third). It will now be a 2% grade on 30" radius curves and a 36" radius S-curve. The mainline over it will be 28" and 30" radius. Clearance is my minimum - 2.75". But the yard lead will be level for 5 to 6 feet now, and there will be a 4' long 2% grade on the mainline before another level section on top of the helix.
This should help a lot with operations because the whole lead and the passing siding were on a grade before.
Now both helices are disconnected
Replacing a turnout and modifying the curve while I have ready access. Since I'm improving three clearance here I decided to replace the Atlas turnout with a Micro Enigineering one. It will still probably need a powered switch machine because of its location.
The reason for the Atlas one initially was the cheap and easily installed power switch machine, and because the points are supposed to be flexible enough to run through them if need be, like a spring switch. This would have worked well in this location because of the traffic pattern. It didn't work as week as I would have liked, so I'm swapping it to my standard turnout. Instead I will probably use detection to automatically line the turnout.
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