Rural electrification


Charles Smiley

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The cattle loading spur's barn, and the little cowboy camper trailer, now have electric lights.

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Charles,

Your layout and the attention to detail you put into it is amazing ... As Toot'n said, the next thing you need to do is automate that level crossing ;)
 
Top Notch! The faded/worn look to the markings on the road and the tire tracks in the driveway. Excellent!
 
Thanks for the comments. BTW... the management decided to use a flagman at that crossing since it's a remote county road with minimal traffic. All the other roads have lighted crossings.
 
Looks very nice Charles . What did you do to dim down the camper light? I cant tell if you have some film over the windows or if you used a colored light but it , to me , looks a little yellow and not as bright as the barn .
 
Camper light is a little 2x3 mm surface mount LED in "warm white" color mounted in the ceiling.

I used a common 4700-Ohm external 1/4-watt resistor on my 12-VDC common supply to the LED. LEDs are great because if you greatly reduce the light output. it does not shift the resulting color into a reddish color. I rarely ever use regular incandescent lights (eg. Grain-of-Wheat" lights) for that reason -- among others.
 
Thanks for the comments. BTW... the management decided to use a flagman at that crossing since it's a remote county road with minimal traffic. All the other roads have lighted crossings.

That would actually be much more prototypical, so management made a good choice there :)

The house where I grew up was in a rural setting, and even on the fairly well-traveled UP mainline there the rural county roads just have crossbucks, nothing automated at all. Considering that, not much chance at all that a railroad would invest in an automated crossing not only in a remote rural area, but most especially when it's on a low-speed siding with infrequent traffic.
 
That would actually be much more prototypical, so management made a good choice there :)

The house where I grew up was in a rural setting, and even on the fairly well-traveled UP mainline there the rural county roads just have crossbucks, nothing automated at all. Considering that, not much chance at all that a railroad would invest in an automated crossing not only in a remote rural area, but most especially when it's on a low-speed siding with infrequent traffic.

And here was me thinking it was because the property owners served by the siding, wouldn't pay for it's electricity bill. :p
 
Thanks.

Floquil Rail Brown with an industrial grade of Q-Tips ( they don't unravel as easily). Wood stain in dark walnut would work as well. Color the wood before gluing and building. Use Yellow carpenter's glue.
 



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