February 2010

Gianluca

...nell' agosto del 2007, per una casuale occasione, conobbi Gianluca, fratello di Luigi, mio amico-collega, il quale mi aveva accennato che suo fratello, aveva la passione dei treni come me!

Uscendo da casa sua, notai una piccola costruzione esterna, e mi venne spontaneo chiedergli cosa ci fosse in quella casetta....il letto per quando tua moglie ti "caccia" di casa?..dissi!...lui rispose: no, c'è la mia piccola passione...mi si accese la lampadina, e mi ricordai quanto detto da Luigi...un piccolo plastico! beh di plastico aveva ben poco...tre tavole di segatura pressata da bancale, due ovali che nn avevano nessuna comunicazione tra di loro, treni gioccattolo della vecchia lima!Dopo qualche tempo, I invited him to see my little plastic ACEI 2003 ... they told me that I was a passionate nn trains, but a sick man! He expressed the desire to build a small plastic, in order to move the train because he had this dream as a child! Then, after going to Novegro 2007, the first of October I decided to help him realize his dream, and the first thing we decided the sizes of the table on which to realize it!

The initial structure.

The measures of the model are 3.60x1.20mt ... 4 tables, 90x120, resting on a steel structure,

make up the ground.

Initially it was thought to accomplish two helicoids the two extreme sides of the plateau, where the convoys pargheggiare ... then their achievement being long, they decided to make two stations:
the principal of "transit", with running lines long, and a secondary head on a different plane from that of the plateau.

few months later, Gianluca, amazed at how I cut the rails to get clips, you get to put all the tracks, and build the flyover, to arrive at the station of secondary head! The choice of material for weapons: Flexible

ViTrains and CEECs trade, though expensive, for their great reliability! meet once a week, four hours for little, in April 2008 we completed the structure of "rigging" the trains could move throughout the course of the plastic! The only drawback, that only 4 of 17 exchanges (nn then counting those that will be placed in the park goods and the secondary station) were electrically connected, since the cost of the engines ... it's a passion ... but it has its costs!

The movement of trains is handled by a small box

for electronic equipment, which are mounted on simple Microdevice double, to give power to section and LEDs indicating the absence / presence of tension in the cuts. The tensile stress is supplied by two feeders Fleischmann, for the exactness two 6755, one of which is bought in Ebay to 29 eu broken, then repaired with a 45-minute work, which has replaced the old Lima blue (ql in photo). The control box, small in size to accommodate all the buttons for the movement of the switches (controlled now by old button Lima), will be replaced later, but when Gianluca allows you to manage the movement of its trains on a model so dreaming ...

and early summer, comes the train secondary to head with its 4 tracks and a sever, and the plan for the park goods and the locomotive shed, and begin to "rise" to build the ribs of the mountains.

In January 2009, a businessman decided to build his hotel on the mountain, leaving the highway to admire the beautiful view!

... there is still much work to do ... before you see the characters in this plastic :-)!

... could not miss a small goods yard and locomotive shed!

...nasce alla fine di giugno il piazzale che ospita il deposito-officina locomotive,
e il magazzino per lo scarico-carico merci e il fabbricato da cui controllare l'intero piazzale.