Thanks Jim- Good info and we go through Strasburg often to visit family so easy to stop and check this out.
Stan Furmanak From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Need a not too old Model RR mag article Stan, Head to Strasburg RR, The "J" Tower has an "Armstrong" machine in it from "BRILL" tower on the PRR Mainline. The rods drop thru the floor, you can see the basic rod ends in lower level. The LONGEST rod was over 800 ft to its end at that tower. There also HAD been some gimbels, cranks, rod ends etc there when I was in charge of the tower in Lancaster Chapter NRHS days. They got rid of me when I requested funds to maintain the bldg they spent over 120K to move and restore. Now part of the Strasburg RR experience, admission is charged. Jim Lyle -----Original Message----- From: Furmanak, Stan <[email protected]<mailto:furmanak%40lvc.edu>> To: [email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> <[email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>> Sent: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 11:51 am Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Need a not too old Model RR mag article Bill- The article about an Armstrong control tower with all of the mechanics to ontrol turnouts and control lights was in a magazine within the past 10 or so ears. Just can't find it. In the mean time, until I can come up with easurements of piping and such, check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonroma/sets/72157601027979186/with/909774335/ nd you will see exactly the Viaduct Junction control and trackwork I want to uild possibly as a diorama. Stan Furmanak From: [email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of Bill oberts ent: Friday, August 27, 2010 8:38 PM o: S Scale ubject: {S-Scale List} Re: Need a not too old Model RR mag article > Posted by: "Furmanak, Stan" > [email protected]<mailto:furmanak%40lvc.edu><mailto:furmanak%40lvc.edu> tannville Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:12 am (PDT) In a model railroader magazine - not sure of which one - but in the last 10 or o years, there was an article on an HO scale of building a mechanical control ower . . . Can anyone hunt for and supply me a copy of that mag article about the HO cale of making a control tower and piping and such? Would like to read this gain and also get some measurements. I remember vaguely such an article by Linn Westcott in Model Railroader magazine bout 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 ot a true armstrong design, since he used electrical contacts to power relays o 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 equired to make it all work. There was a track diagram above the levers with ights. The mechanism below had a plexiglas front, so you could see the bars oving up and down and left and right. The above is from memory, which after fifty years, is not perfect. I kept the rticle for many years until I realized that I would never get around to esigning and building my own. Check it out. - ill Roberts [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links Individual Email | Traditional http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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/
