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Posted by Broadway Lion on Mon Mar 30 07:34:22 2015, in response to Re: From The RailFan Window, posted by Nilet on Sun Mar 29 21:59:29 2015. The room is 24 x 27, there are three levels along the east and south walls. There is really only one route, from 242nd street to South Ferry and back. The tower operator (hey, that's me) must control the railroad as trains arrive and depart 242nd Street. For the rest of their journey the Little Plastic Motorman is in control, making all of the stops etc. At them moment I am only running two train sets at a time, since the other four are in the shop awaiting modification.There are two express loops (one train set each -- the red sets) one north and one south. They appear and disappear at Nevins Street in the south and at Lenox Avenue in the north. There is a Secret Tunnel filled with rats and other assorted monsters that connects these two stations together. There are 14 scale miles of track, nine on the local and five total on the express. It takes (as you have seen in the video) 18 minutes, 45 seconds for the local to make its round trip, it takes about 5 minutes for the express trains to make a loop. When I add the timers to Nevins and Lenox it will take longer, but maybe someday I can afford a second train set running on each of those loops. Trains operate automatically, there are over 300 relays controlling the movement of trains and the operation of signals. The entire array of signals between stations function as only a single signal, thus they do not fall to red until the train arrives at the next station. This of course is not prototypical, but it will have to do, it was hard enough (and expensive enough) to install these relays, another thousand relays are really out of the question. Thanks for your comments. ROAR |
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