Bill- The article about an Armstrong control tower with all of the mechanics to control turnouts and control lights was in a magazine within the past 10 or so years. Just can't find it. In the mean time, until I can come up with measurements of piping and such, check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonroma/sets/72157601027979186/with/909774335/ and you will see exactly the Viaduct Junction control and trackwork I want to build possibly as a diorama.
Stan Furmanak From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Roberts Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 8:38 PM To: S Scale Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Need a not too old Model RR mag article > Posted by: "Furmanak, Stan" [email protected]<mailto:furmanak%40lvc.edu> > stannville > Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:12 am (PDT) > > In a model railroader magazine - not sure of which one - but in the last 10 > or so years, there was an article on an HO scale of building a mechanical > control tower . . . > > Can anyone hunt for and supply me a copy of that mag article about the HO > scale of making a control tower and piping and such? Would like to read this > again and also get some measurements. I remember vaguely such an article by Linn Westcott in Model Railroader magazine about 1961. I realize this is not the article you recall, but read on. He used British levers to control a custom-designed interlocking plant. It was not a true armstrong design, since he used electrical contacts to power relays to make things move. He built it first in wood to test it, then in brass. It worked a lift bridge and signals and a derail. Six or eight levers were required to make it all work. There was a track diagram above the levers with lights. The mechanism below had a plexiglas front, so you could see the bars moving up and down and left and right. The above is from memory, which after fifty years, is not perfect. I kept the article for many years until I realized that I would never get around to designing and building my own. Check it out. -- Bill Roberts [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
