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Sunday, June 27, 2021

How to open a AM08 Desiro railcar from Van Biervliet

 

I made a new video on how to open a AM08 Desiro railcar from Van Biervliet. 


AM08 Desiro

Before we get to that, I'm adding here several videos from the actual railcar:






Van Biervliet

Van Biervliet released only two models. According to Wikipedia, some railcars are equipped for 25kV and can cross the borders into France and Luxembourg.

So, here's how to open this model:






Sunday, June 20, 2021

Trains are running!

 

Finally, the two outside tracks are fully wired. The switch motors for those tracks are installed but not wired yet. I left them in the straight position which allows trains to run around the layout.



And now with sound and a full loop:






Sunday, June 13, 2021

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Section detection with RailCom

 

While I'm still wiring the outside two tracks, I wanted to run a quick test on the section detection with RailCom, since this is what requires additional wiring; so I might as well make sure it is working at this point.

The original post is here.


Spoiler alert; it's working as expected:




I should have taken a video of the layout at the same time ...