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Part of a larger project to increase play-value during shows by linking the Cordele Yard area to the Americus switching area, independent of the main line.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Run-arounds are an important feature required to undertake switching operations. Southern Railway 1966 includes two passing sidings that also act as run-arounds for normal switching operations. During public shows though, switching operations foul the relatively short mainline. To increase play-value during shows a larger project to link Cordele Yard and Americus Yard is underway. The first phase is to add a run-around within Cordele Yard.<\/p>\n
Southern Railway 1966 is constructed on 50 mm (2″) extruded, air-blown, polystyrene encased in a 9mm plywood chassis. This has proven very versatile and easy to work with. One weakness is mounting turnout motors. My workaround is to mount turnouts on 6mm plywood. As I do with all my trackwork, I use artist’s binder medium to glue the turnout to the ply and sub-roadbed. This has proven very versatile and easy to release with warm “wet” water.<\/p>\n
I use Peco Code 88 USA Line track, DCC Concepts Cobalt iP Digital switch machines and Gaugemaster AutoFrogs for frog juicing.<\/p>\n
I drill a 7mm hole below the centre of the tie-bar and countersink the hole on the underside\u00a0 to ensure free movement of the throw wire.<\/p>\n
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The location for the new turnouts was identified and the existing ballast and trackwork was released with warm “wet” water and cleaned up with a vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n
The rebate\/recess required for the ply was created using a sharp wide chisel and hole cut for the switch machine using a utility knife. As can be seen from the photographs I need to remove some of the plywood used to construct the module.<\/p>\n
To be continued…<\/p>\n
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