Large Scale Central

Trolley shuttle with Back 'n Forth Train Throttle

Track and Trestles
#1

I am getting the train garden and yard ready for a garden party next weekend. Hopefully the azaleas will be in peak bloom, looks so far like the timing is pretty good.

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One of the things I wanted to finish before the party was to get the trolley line running. The trolley line is a point to point line that crosses the mainline on ground level and runs along the base of two of the stone beds. In the below shot are some azalea blooms in the background.

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I used the G Scale Graphics Back 'n Forth Train Throttle for powering the track. It works very well and was not too complicated to set up. It still could use a bit of tweaking to accomplish a smooth deceleration at each terminal point.
Video of No. 5 Trolley leaving
Video of No. 5 pausing at Pascalis and then coming back

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#2

nice.

(but if it were mine, i would keep Speedy Gonzalez away from the controls… )

how many truckloads of rock did you haul?

#3

Your trolley has a nice long run. I noticed a diamond along the route by the Dozer. Does the trolley cross your mainline?

#4

Korm, it was about 20 tons of field and flagstone, all delivered on pallets. Another 10 tons or so of soil and gravel. I mortared the stones to form the bed walls.

Todd, it does cross the main using a 90 degree LGB crossing. I’d never used one of those before but it works a charm, keeping the track continuities separate for the perpendicular tracks.

#5

I have a diamond on my RR that crosses the main but that section of track is more of a bypass that allows a train to stay on the lower part of the layout. There has been many near misses at that point. With your trolley on auto I bet you have had lots of near misses as well.