I’ve been playing around with lighting ideas for indoors. With Wall Station being moved indoors I had two ready to go lit structures to get started. I hooked them up to my track which serves as my lighting power buss , but the results were unsatisfactory. Outdoors, the track alone handles this job well. All joints are either screwed together or clamped from when it carried track power for locos. When I built indoors I had pulled the plug on track power, so most track joints are loose. This results in enough voltage drop at the South end of the railroad that LED modules won’t light up.
At first I thought the small power supply I was using might not have enough for the load, so I wired in a big supply left over from my Ham Radio station. Here is the “Power House”…
I still have that MRC connected to the rails as well, but I need to add some isolation switches in order to use it. A timer takes care of turning all lighting, indoors and out, on before dusk and off well after sunrise. Back in my track power days I was pretty organized when it came to wiring. This junction block connects multiple power supplies to multiple power insertion points. It now feeds a constant 12V for lighting…
After tying in the big supply and taking voltage readings I decided that I didn’t need more amps, I needed a better path. I decided to run a lighting buss wire under the entire indoor layout. The south-end was wired in this weekend. Here is the Power House all put back together after everything was connected up…
With good power at the South end, Wall Station and Platform found a winter home. Railroad management decided a passenger car should be spotted in front of the platform and ordered it done. Pencil pushers didn’t realize that the car could not be switched into that position due to track limits. But the crew got it done with Porter #3 and a long chain. The interior lights are tied into the buss…
I made the billboard stand years ago for an EBT display at the ECLSTS. It found a new home at South Willow Hill…
Wall Station looks a lot more inviting here then covered in snow and ice outdoors…
A close-up of the EBT Billboard. The mileage shown is from York to Orbisionia…
Now on to the Challenge build that will fit in to the right of Wall Station at BOX.
