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Step by step - 2006

My attitude to railway

I am a train-spotter from my childhood. My grandfather worked us master cashier Czechoslovak Railways at Slavkov u Brna station. I visited this station with him on holidays. All that time about one hundred trains went every day by line No. 340 (Vlara line). I captured my first photos of wonderfull world with winged wheel. The "Sergey" engines with sixty coaches dominated on this line.


Mechanic advanced signal from
Bucovice. The signal is light
(type AZD) today.

Calling-on signal at entry signal
from Bucovice.

Goods-train with couple of engi-
nes "Sergey" leaves Slavkov u
Brna towards Trencianska Tepla.

Look on exit gridiron towards
Bucovice.

"Sergey" of manipulation train
before station building waits de-
parture to Veseli nad Moravou.


In Brno I took photos from foot bridge in Horni Herspice railway-station:


General view at Horni Herspice
railway-station.

Commuter Breclav-Brno
assembled from double-
-decked coaches.

Goods-train with couple of
electric locomotives "Laminatka"
towards Brno-dolni nadrazi
and Brno-Malomerice.

Commuter from
Jihlava is pulling
in railway station.

Commuter to Jihlava with engine
"Bardotka" leaves railway station.

Locomotive "Sergey"
is waiting for throwing
-over.


Nahoru


From "tea-table" to the garden

I started with TT scale on single circuit and two trains of wagons, at the first. I stepwise informed into mystique of railway traffic during my study of technical school in Breclav. I have built my first model yard, too. Model yard had dimension 80 x 150cm. Because we lived in flat, model yard has been built as folding. After graduation and wedding I shunted modelling world on sidding. But I kept an eye on railway traffic. In the 1999 year we moved to the country. First years I was busy, because we reconstructed house and garden. I thought, that I construct a big model yard at the garret. But we built new attices from garret in 2005 and there was nothing place for model yard (and my son several times a year asked me: "Daddy, when will we start to built model yard ??!!")


I have had a new idea - built garden railway. I had look on website and I saw web pages DRAH-SERVIS s.r.o. of Mr Siler. When that we participed in "a meeting of crazies big scales" - WILL RESOLVED.


Following photos are no comment - try to enjoy idyl in the Mr Siler´s garden ...



Nahoru


Digital starter set

On Christmas Eve 2006 we found with my son the digital starter set under Christmas-tree.
And we opened this big box in the same evening ...


So, it is her - digital starter set.

Assembled circuit of digital set
including wagon lines.

Detail of wagon lines.

The nerve centre is switched
through.

Connection on union 55006.
Cable red/blue is going to track,
cable black/white is going to
shunt transformer 50110.

Detail of track power supply.

Connection of shunt transformer
50110.

The nerve centre and controller.
Controller is driving for engine
with address No. 2
(steam engine in this case).

The engines are ready
for night-time ...

... short clips from the first runs on the test circuit ...


Train of wagons with steam
engine.

Run of diesel engine.


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