Outdoor railway

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Thanks Nigel and Marty

The line I plan to build will be a 16mm live steam layout. Very basic as I live in rented accomodation and hope to move in about two years.

Around the inside of the circuit I hope to run a separate circuit of HO to give my fleet of N&W locos a good run from time to time.

Both of you have helped a lot in showing how to get the feed into each rail for the HO.  The 32mm gauge 16mm scale track has no power as all the locos will be battery or coal fired steam.

Many thanks.

Barry Reeves
Songwriter & Musician
www.northwestlondonacousticmusic.co.uk
www.northwestlondonblues.co.uk




Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:09:34 +0000
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Subject: Re: Outdoor railway
From: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org



Hi Barry;

the short jumpers to each rail can be very small diameter; generally the size chosen is the smallest that is comfortable to handle and solder: 0.3 mm is a good choice.  These jumpers should be less than 150mm long.  The large buss wires should be 2mm diameter or more, flexible multi strand.

Nigel

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Hi

This summer I hope to build a 65 foot circuit on an outdoor layout to run my N & W HO stock. I use DCC. I live in London UK so the climate as ok for this.

My track is Peco code 83. I know that I need to solder jump leads to each piece of rail  and wonder if anybody has advice about the thickness of wire needed and how to solder the wire withouit melting the plastic!

Many thanks

Barry Reeves
Songwriter & Musician
www.northwestlondonacousticmusic.co.uk
www.northwestlondonblues.co.uk



 		 	   		  
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