Hedley Junction

[sailormatlac]

The track scale is now working perfectly.

Meanwhile, we decided to scratchbuild working grade crossing signals with brass tubes & wires, LEDs, Kadee spacers, a CD-ROM drive, a speaker and a 555 module to control flashing lights. So far, so good. I would have never thought working with brass could be that easy.





We will experiment with toggle switches to manually control the signals. The layout doesn't handle a lot of traffic and that's manageable. If we want to upgrade to IR detectors later, it will be possible.

A few very crappy videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70euKOokLR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOxV86KVHE

More details about the building process on the blog.

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5 other signals to build!

Matt