A simple test track: adding the signals.
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Published 2024-03-25
Last week, I got the test track ready for the signals. This week, let's install and test them.
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All Comments (21)
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Your videos are the highlight of my week. Thank you.
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hello Mpeterll & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks Mpeterll & Friends Randy
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AWESOME Peter thanks for sharing.ππππ
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Excellent video Peter! I would love to implement some signals on the club layout.
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Just some FYI about signals. Interlocking signals (also called "Home" signals) are not ABS signals. They are controlled by a Dispatcher and drop to STOP after the train passes and enters the block inside the interlocking. They can only work like an automatic signal if they are fleeted but only straight move can be fleeted. Crossover moves cannot be fleeted.
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Great video!
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Peter , I need to thank you, I noticed you are using the Facia panels from tam valley , I was able to rework the print files for those Facia panels to fit the Walthers push button station, final results are great thank you , also a very interesting video great job
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If this is for a modern railroad, at least for Union Pacific, there is also a flashing yellow aspect between green and solid yellow.
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That reminds me of the days when I actually wrote the signal interlocking!
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interesting engineering process, to get it working you use the same methodology as SpaceX, albeit with fewer explosions.
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I like automation. I have planned to use the DCC Concepts ESP system on my layout. However, there are times that I feel it is too much. That all the automation takes away from just operating a layout. Since I picked a time period of @1912 and narrow gauge I can get away with leaving a lot of automation out of the layout.
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Are you assuming resistor wheelsets on some/all cars, or perhaps end-of-train lights (or lighted caboose/lighted observation car) to allow detection? I guess it depends on how long the blocks are versus how long the trains will be. Will it be needed to detect a train backing into a section?
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Thank you for the video, is this system for the Sydney Layout build? For the signal system is it easier with Digitrax than NCE or LCC ?
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Looks too complicated for me. Ive not gone a block detection route for my layout and I think that remains the solution for me. thank you
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That worked rather well but it looked like a lot of spaghetti wiring underneath. The upper signal responded to the input from the train but the lower signal did not. Is the lower signal dedicated to the diverging route and is that wiring also completed already in the wiring shown.
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Excellent ...... I'm learning stuff here but I have a question if I may, When a long train starts to pass a signal when does the signal good from green to red? as the loco passes the signal or after all the train has passed the signal? In the UK the guard in the guards van (caboose) was also responsible for checking that the train hadn't run a red light.
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What are using for detection? I would suggest stepping it up and program for true interlocking. Also there are better options for signals ( affordable) Atlas . Is Prototype northern RR? Snow shields would indicate this.
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Will you provide a link to the signal controllers? Also, where did you find Atlas WORKING signals?
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Just wondering what "trips" the signal when the train passes? Are there some type of sensors?
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Hi Peter - are we having dwarf signals in the yards?
