Monday, May 31, 2010

How To Make A Hot Wheels Gas Powered

automatic operation with Rocomotion

This video was made before the conversion. It is this driving has made it clear that only one track was in the direction from right to left, a significant weakness. Right above the "pilot time" to see - a clock that runs at 6x speed.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

What Are Some Good Nerf Guns

reconstruction of Central City

was actually done and yes everything went well. But as is the case with model railroad - there are always new ideas, new findings and thus a conversion. Now it has affected the station Mittelstadt.

At the beginning of the planning of this system, it was indeed only an extension of the window unit with two tracks towards the staging yard. It was just before construction began when I noticed that there was plenty of room there, then where the station Created Mittelstadt, actually. I therefore diverted from the lower (southern) from track and produced a terminal station with 5 tracks. Later came the passage of track 3 be added to the staging yard. In sum, it remained there, though that for the drive from right to left only one track was available for travel from left to right but four. At the very end - since the system was already, a stump track came about, that was only passable by right (see post of 31 1, 2010)

Somehow this all a bit twisted. And even in the automatic mode, I realized that it is uncomfortable when in the northern Bahnhofberiech (travel from right to left) no overtaking is possible. Hence the idea of a reconstruction, which has now begun arose:
addition to the scheduled benefit that now can be on the way from right to left brings in the station (there are three tracks), so do the driveways changed in the train station from the right. Previously there were three entrances into the station (but not yet built were done), then there will be five. (In the drawing, the bright blue track top right).

What the plans red or pink is turning loops are hidden as they link the two sides of the "oval" directly. Probably not necessary anyway, I have, however, are sometimes scheduled. And in the new plan are the lower (two) against the old plan (four).

the sake of completeness, it should be mentioned that the pink track (track 7) is intended as a programming track and therefore has its own circuit.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

World Best Play Ground Wallpaper

This year, Pentecost is like Christmas





I do not mean the weather - although the almost looks the part. But 2 days ago I received my first two real FREMO module boxes of Harald Brosch . Thanks to the precise cutting and the assembly went smoothly Vernutung-twitching.
So far, I've even worked with my "own standards" which, although was inspired by FREMO, but in the details was much simpler. I will now build in the next few weeks, two "real" FREMO modules (but of course with Trix Express) and two adapters, ie short spacers, on the one side a FREMO profile and on the other hand, my previous profile.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Brownie Vest Patch Placement Front And Back

with modules on the way to Franconia


occasion the 50th Franken Stammtisch I packed my car full of modules and drove to Fürth. There meet regularly Trix Express friends (yes Trix was in Nuremberg at home!) That have a large Stammtischanlange built. In May 2009 I had visited it - this time I took modules: development area, golf course , Mostviertel and TimeSaver , plus two turning modules. I hope that soon there are also pictures of other participants in the master table.