Photos of the tram

I've added a few photos of the tram in front of some buildings just to show how the bprinted cobblestone paper looks with the tram on it and some buildings in the background.

I reckon it looks super!

And now it's all running nicely...

I've finally wired in the Arduino Mega 2560, the Pololu servo controller, a relay board to control the track blocks and the L298 motor system to drive the trains and the tram. 

It's all nicely tucked away under the layout and finally all trackwork is in place and a demo program is running which allows the train to run on every track section, exercise all the points etc.

I'll post more still shots later but for now, here's a video...




Next will have to be the 'real' software which allows for 3 engines to run on the layout at once.

Some video of the new layout.

I've been running my engines using a very poor old wower unit. I got really tired of it today and did a quick hack job on an Arduino system to run 2 trains using 2 pots to control spped and direction. Nice and easy - took me 20 minutes total.

Anyway, here's some nice videos of it all running...

Some more photos and videos - added the Town.

A short video of my old tank engine on the layout

Looping around the innner track from the station and then up and crossing over to the middle track.

Coming in to the station.