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[trainsinanime]

This is the newest section for my model railroad. Yes, it seems chaotic, but that's the point.

My model railroad consists of small sections that I build whenever I feel like it, and arrange on a suitable table. Since my apartment isn't that large, I have exactly one model railroad table, which also serves as a general hobby and random stuff table. That makes it difficult to actually run trains - there's always random stuff in the places where I want to put model railroad sections. This here is the solution. Hopefully.

It's a model railroad module that also serves as a holder and organiser for random stuff. The idea is that it remains in place at all times, and I can connect other modules to it as I want and need. And I get to have model trains running through my pencils, cutters, dead battery boxes and so on.

Just to be clear, by definition, anything that is in the fields of that module is stored away properly and organised. This means I will not take any criticism about the way things are arranged there (and it's bound to change anyway).

Some technical details:

This module (mostly) follows the T-Trak standard for small table-top modules in N scale. As part of that, the tracks at the ends are Unitrack. The main semicircle is Tomix track, which offers a few more options, in particular these nice curved turnouts that mean the module works as a crossover as well. As of right now the turnouts are hand-controlled, I plan to add a DCC decoder at a later date (potentially much later).

The basic construction is probably mostly what you expect: A plywood box with strips as dividers.

Main box, floor and track section are 7 mm pine, the inserts are 4mm poplar. Some inserts end up mostly or fully covered, those have access from the bottom to put cables in. The whole thing has power connections, which is not required by T-Trak standards, but I put it in every module anyway.

The edges of the road bed are covered with a 1mm thick strip of wood from an architecture supply shop, which makes the edge look smooth (it's not, I cut it out with a jigsaw) and holds back the ballast.

Because this wouldn't hold any pens or similar, I designed some special inserts with higher interlocking parts.

Those were a bit annoying to build. Finally the whole thing was painted in varnish, giving the look you see now. I'm really happy with how things turned out there, and I think this'll be a useful addition to my model railroad table for the years to come.

Now I just need to find a different space for my 3D printer, and build some curves to run the trains around the WiFi router and…

[greenstartpoint]

Финско-латышский «арктический писец» Oruga - пусть «зомби-апокалипсис» не вводит в заблуждение.

Описанный в прошлом материале инновационный кольцевой мотор, через проекты «Donut Lab», уже нашёл своё применение в проекте, по сути, финско-латышской коллаборации «Oruga». “Oruga”: «Мы — международная команда, увлеченная технологиями, транспортными средствами и отдыхом на природе. Базируясь в Риге (Латвия), мы ставим перед собой задачу произвести революцию в сфере уличной мобильности, развивая…

[tim-of-borg]

Added new Kato Turnouts points UniTrack and power supply and run it in

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[trainsinanime]

Over the past few weeks, I built a new model railroad module.

It's a tiny trestle bridge, based on plans from the Great Northern Railway. I'm calling it the Nicholson Creek Bridge, because I had hours and hours of old Jenny Nicholson videos on in the background while I was working on this.

(Actually, now that I think about this, I hope this doesn't get read as an insult, because the river here is literally not that deep.)

Anyway, some tech specs: N scale, follows the T-Trak module standard but slightly modified (58 mm distance front to edge of track bed, instead of 38 mm normally), and this time single-track. There are power connections hidden underneath.

The main point is the bridge, of course, a classic american staple. We don't have these kind of wooden bridges in Europe. Although, maybe we should?

The bridge is the main thing here. The main sections ("bents") are constructed out of 2x2 mm balsa wood. The long line on top is 3x3 mm pine, and the reinforcements between the bents are 1x1 mm linden. The track is flex-track from Fleischmann (former Roco) mostly because I could remember their order number the most easily when I went to my local model railroad store (it's 22200). The wood is mostly Amazon, except for the small 1x1 mm profiles, which I got from a local architecture supply store. Next time I'm doing that for all the wood pieces, though I still have plenty of supply left.

I'm really happy with the result, so trust me when I say that I see lots of things I could have done better, I mean this not in a self-deprecating way, but in a "I should build another one of these!" ways.

The most obvious changes would probably be that the 2.0 version of the bridge would be longer, go either through desert or over an actual river (I haven't decided yet, either sounds good), have different track with much wider ties, more reinforcements between the pilers for a more regular look, and I'd color it. But those are all just theoretical concerns at the moment.

(By the way, carrying strength of the bridge is not an issue at all, it's rock-solid with anything I've put on it. I think the 3x3 mm pine stringers would be sufficient already without any of the structure underneath, partly because of the small size and cube square law concerns, partly because I have one long beam under each rail instead of short sections from bent to bent.)

And to close things out, some construction pictures:

Building the structure:

Building the frames:

Building the frames and placing them to test the landscape:

Let me know if you have any questions!

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[tim-of-borg]

N Scale tables layout update installing new haul - Camera on Tripod

N Scale tables layout update installing new haul of Tomix buildings and Kato uniTrack.

Camera on Tripod ...

speaking louder 🤣

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