But go ahead and add in extra signals, lamps, controls to your liking. I love
selling the cards that control them Grin. At the club I used to belong to we had
repeater signals on all local panels. With DC trains, this made it easier for
our fellow modelers to know if they could switch power and enter a block or to
stay put. The panels were in the middle of blocks and the need to run down to
the end of the block to see what aspects were displayed interrupted the
decisions to keep trains moving
Don
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I have a question regarding the construction of the control panels outlined in Bruce Chubb's books. I've been having difficulty in locating a print shop that...
Walt, I'm planning to use matte finish photo paper printed on my Epson color printer for my panels. Using a simple 2D CAD program I have created the panel as...
Walt: I did something similar to what Chuck suggested below (print on "standard paper"), except I covered the panel with a sheet of .083" plexiglass (from Home...
Dear All I made silk screen panels a few years ago, This a my be costly. I used auto Cad to draw all drawing to scale. Then I had the drawings printed at full...
Hi Walt, I'll get to the core of your problem. What we do in our Club is fairly simple. We Make full size printout copies of what we want on plain paper. We...
Hello Walt, You will have to find a print shop/graphic arts shop that still outputs film. These days they are fewer and fewer as you have noted. However, the...
Walt, If you ant to come over to operate Saturday the 16, you can see our panels using MS Word and Lexan. Jack Green [Non-text portions of this message have...
... have ... Walt, In addition to the suggestions already posted, have you visited a sign shop? The one near me makes signs on thin plasic in sizes upto (and...
I'd like to thank all who responded with some great ideas for control panels. I may visit a sign shop now to see if they can create a black negative on clear...
having worked in the signage trade myself, I can suggest that self-adhesive vynal lettering & graphics (computer-cut) would be the way to go for you. Here's a...
... Have you thought of printing two copies of the transparency and sandwiching them? That should get you closer to opaque. One thought that comes to my mind...
I took a slightly different tack to the problem, printing the diagrams on clear plastic film used for making slides for an overhead projector. This stuff is...
Gramps Railroad
dmetal@...
Sep 9, 2006 8:05 pm
I hope that this is not a silly question. I have finally got my CMRI system working and I am busy installing control panels. I notice in the 'Big Green Book'...
There are prototypes for both lighted and non-lighted signals on the control panels...even on US&S boards, even on the same railroad. If you are talking about...
On this same topics what about using a bi-color or tri-color LED? The other thought is using Size 1 LEDs for signals and Size 1-3/4 LEDs for Occupancy...
... There are two issues to consider: 1) how many CMRI outputs do you want to consume? (i.e., cost...) and 2) what should the LEDs show? Only you can answer...
Take a look in the files section. The ControlPanel.JPG file is one of my fascia mounted panels driven by CMRI hardware. I put the signal LEDs on the panel...
But go ahead and add in extra signals, lamps, controls to your liking. I love selling the cards that control them Grin. At the club I used to belong to we had...
Bryan, If you check the photos section of this site, under my Selkirk Tower & CP-SK folder you'll see my Interlocking Tower Panel where I chose to use green...
Gentlemen, Although extremely handy for the train dispatcher, particularly the model railroad train dispatcher. It is important to note here that the practice...
I have to agree with John. The consideration needs to be made as we do on the prototype railroad's continuously about what information is pertinent to the...
In the model railroading world we often depart from prototype for reasons unique to the task. Our HO club http://www.ida.net/org/pmrhs/index.htm is in the...
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