Building A TT:120 Model Railway - Episode 4: How To Build An Incline
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
- In Episode 4 of Building A TT:120 Model Railway, I show you how to build an incline.
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In the previous episode I constructed the upper level on a separate baseboard and now it's time to join it to the main layout. That means I'll need to figure out how to build an incline so that trains can run from the main circuits up to the terminus station on the top level.
This doesn't go exactly to plan and with a few unexpected hiccups to deal with I'm reminded why having inclines on model railways isn't usually a good idea!
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This is going to be a gorgeous little layout. I’m not quite sure why I might use TT120, but it’s definitely something I like the look of.
Excellent series - and huge thank you again for taking the time to talk to us over @MacTrains and @PeachyTT120. Getting great feedback
Not a modeller but quite like watching the videos following a heart attack (genetic, not couch potato). So many of you use gym weights for pressing down the glue. Do you actually use the weights as training equipment? Similarly, both my daughter's gardens had rusty weights that someone must have bought and never used or used to weigh down something in the gardens. How much gym equipment gets bought and never used? I have kettle weights and have used them a lot for workouts. A cheap static bike our son left in London would be useless for me as a a gym item on its own but, 10 minute blast, hop off and swing kettles or do some press-ups or plank then back on bike works very well. I did use the kettle weights for DiY last week to flatten a warped table top my daughter wanted renovating but it seemed a crime against health to do it.
A good video on how to do the incline this way, but it is only one way and expensive too, I thought I was going to see other ways too. Still a good way of showing this in this video.
Fitting magnets under locos is a solution but many locos simply do not have sufficient space.
No traction tires needed.
I have a layout full of inclines the most important aspect to me of an incline is the top and bottom transition curves. The main incline is just a flat plank with different height ends. I build my transitions over 300mm but i extend them to 500mm so i can screw down onto the flat baseboard the 100mm overlap and the sloping "plank". At the top the same occurs. What i achieve is a smooth curve transition with no slight kinks that can look unnatural and do not reduce wheel friction which on inclines is very important. Your video does not seem to cover transitions nor inclines of different heights. I am lucky i do have space
Gradients have always scared me a bit, but you've certainly made the processes look easy here!
The more things change the more they stay the same, those power base things are very similar to the "mange-traction" the Lionel company started offering on its model trains in the 1950s.
Thanks Bob T
I've never seen the Power Base before! What a clever idea to help with adhesion
That power base system is genius, a literal game changer for multi-level or inclined layouts.
Great job on the incline. Inclines are never easy to do, but you done well getting it right and making sure that trains can run up it no problem 😀
Just when You think you’ve seen everything
Love a layout with a second level and in this case it gives good reason for a delightful tunnel feature. I have built such a slope before but it was complicated and time consuming, I am inclined to think that your method is a far better way forward, and very uplifting to see the build going so well. Those magnets look so effective, a bit like the old Hornby "Magnadhesion" but under the track and not in the loco. Excellent video thanks.
I was very interested to see what your solution was, the powerbase seems like quite the clever idea! Going to give it a run on my OO gauge layout with similar inclines and see if it helps a bit for more realistic running.
Power Base. Great minds think alike! I knew I’d need this for more than 2%. Nice video
bit late to mention it (sorry!), there is another way to ease gradients, take the bit thats not under the upper deck and raise that, so where your incline starts you are already say a third of the way there, then drop back to go under the upper deck. using this here to allow a
Quite a bit of tedious work, but the incline looks and works really well, it seems. I never would have thought the magnets would do it, but they apparently work very well. Can't wait to see how you scenic the area.