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"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> writes:
> Steve,
I'm not Steve, but I'll answer anyway (my first time reading Lugnet since
the show!)
> What is this area?
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=251248
> looks like a control system, could you explain it some?
Yep. That's Kevin's control panel. Really cool! Its surfaced with black
tiles mostly. He used small vertical clips to fasten on a layout diagram
made of blue tubing (collected from several club members!). Clipped on
to the tubing in turn are 1x1 tiles on which we can write the numbers of
the turnouts. The buttons across the top (toward you in the picture) are
caps on top of some old large microswitches I had. Kevin has mounted and
wired them to the attached Lego controller, and they are used to control
the turnouts. A number on the button cap corresponds to the number on the
layout diagram. All of the turnouts on the layout are powered, but the two
sidings near the docks never did get wired up. :-)
The structure in front is Kevin's facade, which blocks view of the nasty
wires, etc. from that side of the layout. Also visible are a pair of
Andrew's lighting towers, scattered around the yard and industrial areas.
I took some pictures, too, but haved rescued my camera from the Lego tub
it got chucked into yet. I wouldn't count on much quality, though - I
was in a hurry and its an old camera. Hopefully Kevin got some decent shots.
--
Experience should guide us, not rule us.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM
http://www.GraySage.COM/cg/
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