AC Lines.mpg

[pyronathanpyro]

wow nice i take it this is the westcoast minitures chanel if so im looking forward to your new layout :)/

[50042]

I drive trains for a living and you need to slow these models down to half the speed they are traveling in this video. best regards.

[bluemaccrab]

Very smart Dave

[bloodmarine77]

awsome layout mate, ive subbed!

[MrJezza31]

im an ac electric veg this is heaven!! :P

[87006]

Fabulous absoloutely fabulous the sparking pantographs are an awesome touch wish I could build something like this well done 87006.

[THAMESLINK319]

Cool, I like how the pantograph sparks! Does the pantograph go "up and down", or is it at a default height and are all the wires at a default height?

[lindisfarnemusic]

@THAMESLINK319

All the pans are fixed just below the height of the wires. The sparking effect is done by mounting a small LED in the pan head. This collects its power from the track via a bridge rectifier so the LED works in both directions. It is switched on by a reed switch mounted under the trailing bogie triggered by fixed magnets burried under the track.

[lindisfarnemusic]

Thanks. The 89 is scratchbuilt using plasticard and a couple of hst cab roofs. The underframe was from a lima 47 and the bogies were modified from lima class 60's.

[itgamer100]

Hi very nice display.

Is that class 89 Own-built or RTR?