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It has to be said (since I had one previous run-in with the legal department of the LEGO company, but that's neither here nor there), that this page is in no way affiliated with the LEGO Company (Canada or otherwise) and is not endorsed by the aforementioned company.
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| In an effort to organize my site a little better, I started this page for showing building steps of various LEGO train related ideas. Hope you like it.
All steps created (thus far) were done in MLCad. It does a phenominal job! Any unclear steps and/or crazy directions are the fault of yours truly, and not the fault of MLCad. |
***March 20, 2004***
I like building things all modular-like, so with this in mind, the train switch console I put together earlier this week succumbed to the modularity collective--Resistance is futile!
First, the base of one switch. LDraw zip file of all parts can be found here.
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Then the top--the switch mechanism
Note--in the actual LDraw file, the top 1x4 liftarms have the offset--I couldn't find the 1x4 liftarms with no offset. Eh, whatrya gonna do...
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After you build a few of these switches, the fun comes in getting 'em all together...
First, some end caps (better make two)--
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Then combining them all together and adding electricity!
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There you have it--make as many switches as you wish!
I power mine from a 9 volt train regulator set to full power.
Each switch has a power out connector which goes to a switch motor on the layout.
See the actual picture above to see why I used 1x4 Technic bricks with holes--it's to make the wiring a little neater (hopefully)
Also note that I changed the colour of some switch units--colour coding for different areas of the layout. Now that's pretty neat!
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One of the motorized switches I use on my layout. MLCad file can be found here.
This switch was inspired by others I've seen on the internet. The FreeLug site made a comprehensive listing of all automatic switchpoints for the LEGO 'Wye' track. FreeLug can be found here.
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