A Funicular in the Garden in HD
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2023
- My extensive Garden Railroad just sprouted another extension, a FUNICULAR.
It is such a simple looking, 6 meter long, addition, that it is hard to understand why it was such a formidable challenge to conceive and build. Two small, modified LGB cars are climbing alternately the 20 % grade.
The "Standseilbahn" is running on automatic with the help of an "Arduino" microprocessor. A friend helped with the programing. The guiding of the cable trough the complicated passing section was the biggest head-scatcher. The cars need to cross the Cable !
Make sure you watch the second half of the video. Enjoy
And they say putting a man on the moon is mankind's greatest accomplishment....I reconsider....Bravo Sir, well done.
Nasa has an army of highly trained man. I am just one aging engineer, but then again, I did not build a funicular to the moon. Thanks for your thoughts and praise.
Well done!
Elevating!
How Abt !
Great job👍 looks so natural and very realistic! Just wonderful 👍👍👍
And it is great to hear you appreciate it. Thanks.
Very ingenious.
Really, the genius is with the real thing. I just copied it on a smaller scale. But Thanks anyways.
My personal favorite garden railroad anywhere on Earth! Love it!
Love your coment. I am very honoured, thank you. I trust you know about other videos on my channel: Trains and More
Great job!
Thanks
Truely wundervoll
Thank you.
Simply lovely!
Thank you!
Its great to see an "Abtsche Weiche" in a small scale! Your funicular looks like an real one!
You are right, all the credit goes to Mr Abt. I just copied his idea, be it in a smaller scale. I try to make it look real, your comment says, I am getting close. Thank you for that.
Love everything about your garden train! I also loved riding Quebec City's funicular.
Thank you for your comment. I have not been on the one in Quebec City. But I did ride one in Salzburg, in Paris and in Santiago, missed the one in Bergen and seen many more. They have them all over the world. However they are very rare on Garden Railroads ???
This is very impressive. The amount of planning and design that went into this must have been phenomenal; and it is all executed very nicely
I surprised myself how complicated such a simple looking project is. Thanks for your appeciation.
This is amazing.... Love it, great job!
Thanks for the compliment.
Very well thought out and designed passenger conveyance. Very happy to see it in operation.
Sorry Peter, you did not see it in operation when you where here. The video will just have to do for now.
Excellent! I'm so impressed by this labor of love.
Thanks for your appeciation. I do this for myself, but I also do it for people like you.
Very cool, almost a simplistic design. Great craftsmanship!
Thanks. There are different ways to build a two car Funicular. The 4 -rail and the 3 -rail system are easier to design and build. But since I never avoid a challenge, I just had to pick the most involved, the 2 -rail system. The prototype was first created by a man called Abt.
VERY WELL DONE!!!
I do try. Thank you.
I've missed your videos, another brilliant one.
Thanks. A added a new feature. That was reason enough to make a new video.
Wow, that's incredible! Clearly there's a lot of work involved in the design , building, and getting everything to run so smoothly. Outstanding and what a beautiful railway!
I thank you for realizing that some effort went into this latest bit of model building.
And your entire railway!
It is always nice to see someone appreciates it. Thanks again.
Amazing Job! Thanks for sharing us. Very creative!
Cheers
Thank you. Comments like yours make the sharing fun. Cheers
Using the double flange on the outside and a flangeless wheel on the inside is pure genius. Dubuque has a similar funicular but I believe it uses traditional flanges and has each car using two of three rails, splitting to four for the crossover.
I looked up the Fenelon Co at Dubuque. They are using the simpler 3 rail system. There are basically three ways of getting the two cars past each other.
A) The simple 4-rail sysyem. The two cars have their own tracks.
B) The 3-rail System: Like the one you have in Dubuque. The two cars are sharing the center rail, except while passing. Simple standard flanged wheel are used.
C) The 2-rail system which is the one I built. It uses two Abt-switches, which have no moving parts. The outer wheels look like pulleys and are guided by the continous outer rail. The inner wheels are flat and move over a number of gaps and the other car's cable without touching it. This last system is usually used when there is a long run invoved and/or the terrain does not allow room for 3 or 4 rails.
Thanks for your comment.
@@Landsend-Railroad I appreciate the explanation and extra context! Thanks! I thought the 2-rail system was especially clever for a model, because it could use standard track for all but a few sections, and only needs a little over half of the amount of track needed by the four-rail system. Whereas the three-rail system would need custom track for the entire length.
The short center section was the tricky one to build. It took quite a bit of bending and cutting to get the wanted result. Beyond that you are quite right. The 2-rail system was the logical choice.
Cool!
Thanks. You are the fist to comment.
Hola: Excelente maqueta con bonito funicular. 💯😊
Es amable de tu parte decirlo. Gracias.
Por nada. Me gusta su trabajo.
y me gusta tu comentario
Klasse gemacht, Glückwunsch. Ich habe die Standseilbahn von Brawa in H0. Gruß aus Hamburg.
Recht schoenen Dank fuer die Glueckwuensche. Ich wusste nicht, dass Brawa eine Standseilbahn anbietet. In G Spur gibt es so etwas nicht. Da muss man selber etwas auf die Beine stellen. Gruesse aus Victoria BC Canada
@@Landsend-Railroad Die gab es mal in den 60ern oder 70ern. Grüße an den Mann und viel Gesundheit.
What plants are you using for dwarf size trees ??
I use a great variety. Alberta spruce, heather, cryptomeria, box wood, lavender, azeleas and others. I have many Western Red Cedars, they seed themselves from large trees surounding my layout. They make good small trees and can also be trimmed into bushes and hedges, but need constant attention and pruning.
Is it a perpetual motion? :D
3:25
The instant turn-around had you puzzled? No perpetual motion here, just a clever edit. I did not want to show the static 15 second rest period programmed into the Arduino controller.