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Wiring Your Layout 2nd Edition By Paul Mallery Simply Quickly Efficiently Atlas
Wiring Your Layout 2nd Edition By Paul Mallery Simply Quickly Efficiently using Atlas electrical components
Soft Cover
Copyright 1958, SECOND EDITION 1971
44 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO WIRING 4
BASIC CIRCUIT6
Locomotives, Power Pack, Track Connecting Leads
TURNOUTS, SWITCHES, AND CROSSINGS 9 Electrical Characteristics, Power Connections, Switch Machines
SIDINGS AND SPURS14
Passing, Stub, Yard Leads
DOUBLE TRACK 16
Two-train Operation, Crossovers, Dog-Bone Layouts
REVERSING LOOPS AND WYES18
Basic Problem, Reversing Loop Arrangements, Lengths, Wyes for Reversing, Wyes for Diverging Routes
INDEPENDENT CONTROL OF LOCOMOTIVES26
Power Packs, Sections, Methods of Control
TURNTABLES, CONTROL PANELS AND CABLING 32
Roundhouse and Storage Tracks, Requirements, Operation and Identifying Wires
EXAMPLES OF WIRING FOR LAYOUTS37
Simple Layout, Double-Track Layout, Layout with Reversing Loops
ELECTRICAL POSSIBILITIES42
Signals, Locomotive Control, Meters, Lighting, Electrified Railroads, Pulse Power, Telephones
USEFUL INFORMATION 44
Schematic Symbols, Diagrams of Atlas Controller, Selector, Connector, and Twin
Model railroading is a creative hobby. It appeals to young and old alike because it is not merely a means of collecting a set of show pieces, but a way of expressing one's ideas and seeing them perform in the way they were intended. As a hobby, model railroading provides satisfaction by presenting a functioning, realistic representation of these ideas in a finished layout. Scale operation, as well as scale equipment, should be modeled for maximum realism on a model railroad.
The operation and control of model railroads are based on electrical circuits. Locomotives run and are controlled in speed and direction by electricity. Switch machines throw the points of track switches to guide the locomotive over the proper course. They, too, are controlled by electricity. Electricity also is used to light lamps and for operating accessories which add to the interest and realism of the layout. The electrical part transforms the layout into a moving, functioning railroad that will obey your commands as its engineer.
Model railroading may begin with a simple loop of track around a Christmas tree. There, all that is necessary is to connect a pair of wires from the terminals of the power pack to the terminals on the track. But running one train in loops cannot hold interest for long.
If you want to do more than just start, stop and reverse a train, you will need more than a simple loop of track. The next step then is a larger layout with realistic trackwork, scenery, and more detailed cars and locomotives. This means selecting one of the printed plans from one of the Atlas books or other source, perhaps even designing your own railroad. Then you must build the foundation for your layout ( benchwork) , lay the track and install the secenery. Even if you do not use a published plan, the information on how to build the layouts given in the Atlas books can be followed and adjusted to fit your needs.
Few modelers have the time or patience to scratch build their layouts from the ground up. It takes experience to be able to lay track and build switches which will operate faultlessly time after time. However, through the use of precision-made track by Atlas, realistic layouts can be built in N, HO and 0 gages without long, tedious hours of labor. If care is used, a beginner can build a layout of which even the most experienced model railroader would be proud.
After a layout is built, it must be wired before it can be operated. Since many a beginner has no previous experience with electrical circuits, he wonders where he can learn all of those supposedly complex things he needs to know to get his railroad running. To begin with he should forget the idea that he almost has to be an electrical engineer to be able to wire a layout. The equipment and accessories on the market nowdays have greatly simplified most wiring problems. In particular the well-designed, preassembled components such as the Atlas Selectors and Controllers have taken the complexity out of the wiring you will have to do. They have convenient, well-marked terminals which are connected directly to the track or power pack. All the complexity is on the printed wiring inside of these units.
The purpose of this book is to provide any model railroader, regardless of experience, with the information necessary to wire any small to medium-size home layout so that it can be operated in a realistic manner and will be essentially trouble-free. The emphasis is placed entirely on how to get the railroad running using readily available components. Although, with this book, you could wire a large layout, it cannot be urged too strongly, if it is your first layout, that you start small, perhaps with just one loop on the layout, and get it running. A little experience on the simple will go a long way to making it easy on the large and more complex.
It also cannot be urged too much that all wiring be done neatly and with wire of adequate size. Nothing can guarantee electrical troubles better nor make trouble-shooting more difficult than the proverbial rat's nest which results when wires are just run in.
As the layout become larger and more complex, electrical problems will be encountered which are not found on the typical home layout. Even if you are building a small layout, you may want a more detailed understanding of your electrical circuits or perhaps to install more sophisticated controls than are available as prefabricated commercial units. Obviously such information must be outside the scope of this book if maximum clarity is to be preserved. Books containing such information are available including "The Electrical Handbook for Model Railroads" by the same author and published by The Model Craftsman Publishing Corp.
Another source of additional electrical information is the publications of the National Model Railroad Association. Actually, if you have more than just a casual interest in model railroading, you cannot get better value for your money in this hobby than through a membership in the NMRA.
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