Siemens LOGO based realistic signaling on miniature railway

Siemens LOGO based realistic Finnish signaling, interlocking and automatic train control on miniature railway.
I did this on my school; this is my graduate work.
I built everything, except PIKO tracks, switches, switch electric turnings, grass mat, the Siemens ER20-diesel loco and two german Esslingen-passenger wagons. Those were bought from miniature railway shop, but track ballast, all signals, interlocking box, level crossing signalling and "bell", automatic train path based control, signal relay groups, trackside sensors and their relays, switch turning control and locking, and all programming on LOGO:s were built and assembled together by me. Whole project took 2 months and 1700 euros.
There is 5 Siemens LOGO:s on the project, two on interlocking device, one on level crossing control, one on automatic train path based control, and one on switch turning and locking.
Three out of five programs on logics are larger than 125 blocks (maximum: 130 blocks on LOGO), and two of them are already on maximum.
There is NO Digital Command Control (DCC) on this track, train is solely controlled by automatic train path based control, and it controls the voltage on the rails with four contactors. There is power supply of old computer supplying the voltage on the rails. 5 volts is the maximum, and by adjustable resistor and four contactors it can be dropped to 2,5 volts and reversed.
All signals were built from parts NOT specifically designed to be part of signalling, but i am satisfied with those signals, althought they are not in scale. I designed whole project myself, and i didn't have any kind of circuit plans at the beginning. I just know precisely how signalling and interlocking works in reality.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Siemens
• Logo
• interlocking
• Finnish
• signalling
• simulation
• miniature
• railway
• H0
• train

[kurvjuh]

How did you get sounds to that level crossing?

[Kyosuke1989]

When this work was finished, it worked like it was designed, level crossing's controlling box activated a contactor, which swiched speakers on and off. There was continously looped sound on computer or mp3-player, and it was feeded to speaker, which was on when that sound was needed. It worked some time. But speaker's cable was somehow damaged in some moment, i do not know what happened, but there was no sound at all when i started to film this. I then dubbed this video to make those sounds.

[JuhaVnt]

aika magee juttu. Minkälaisen arvosanan sait?

[Kyosuke1989]

Viitosen, amiskan asteikolla paras arvosana.

[flaaflaa]

No jopas jotaki. Onko pienoisrautateille aiemmin kehitetty signaalijärjestelmiä? Melkoiset pömpelit radan varrella, nehän pittää naamioida kerrostaloiksi! ;p

[Kyosuke1989]

En tiedä ainakaan että suomalaiset ois omaan opastinjärjestelmään perustuvana kehitelleet mitään vastaavaa. En kerennyt naamioimaan nuita, ne olisi tietty voinut laittaa pöydän allekin.

[hvacjdk]

where is the best place to get a siemens logo?

[2222100tttt]

that is great \thanks

[amartinjoe]

nice...very nice! Congratulations on a great job! I'm studying to be an Electro-Mechanics Technician....hopefully will be doing this kind of work.

[thebesttrainvids]

loud ass signals

[Takanozana]

well done!

[kurvjuh]

Well, thanks for your comment.

[JuhaVnt]

Onnea onnea!