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Progress on the Mountain Park Coal Mine Layout
Tim sent in this info to share with readers:
I retired last year and my friend Don and I are building our first layout in my basement in Edmonton Alberta Canada. The table is not very large, being only 40″ X 96″ (1016mm X 2438mm) but more than enough for our first simple HO scale layout. We are loosely basing it on the Mountain Park coal mine which is a ghost town south of Cadomin Alberta that flourished between 1912 to 1950. Don and I took our families camping up there many time as we love the scenery on the eastern slope of the Rockies. Mountain Park had a rail line called the “Blue Flea” but I can’t find out (yet) how it got that name.
The biggest problem we have run into so far is that the small locomotive (#55 in the picture pulling the coal cars) doesn’t seem to like the frogs in Atlas switches, we think because of the short wheelbase… We are currently thinking of switching all eighteen turnouts to PECO electrofrog which seem to solve the problem on the one I did yesterday.
Don is finishing the coal mine layout and I am working on a trestle bridge and then it on to the townsite for both of us. Google “Mountain Park Alberta” for reference images.
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If you are running DCC you can add a Keepalive to the engine which is like a battery backup for this type of problem.