Arosaish Bahn

But isn't Stewie dead-rail? - So surely the catenary will be cosmetic, rather than practical?

The conventional wisdom is also that catenary and DCC, don't make good bed-fellows.

PhilP.
 
Tropic Blunder1 said:
Considering the ESET has been in operation with conventional copper wire for over 9 years without wire replacement and is still operating though not documented on this forum any longer. its amusing to see other opinions here. It will be fine Grizzmo.
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I was basing my ideas off of what I had seen with the ESET and the Ruschbahn and was intending a setup based off ideas from both railways to look something like the cat on the Arosa bahn. The Eset uses maybe 2.5mm solid conductor (from old mains power cable)? Could be smaller cable looking at it again. It has more wildlife to deal with than I have and I reckon would have a very similar climate to here in NW Tas.
Tropic Blunder1 Tropic Blunder1 , I didn't realise the Eset had been going for so long. I will have a read through Melbournesparks Melbournesparks thread again.
Even if it only lasts a decade I do have about 40m of 16mm2 sdi 7/1.7mm, or 50m of 10mm2 building wire 7/1.3mm that's been sitting around for a few decades. So at least 250m-300m of single strand, I should be fine for materials :D
 
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dunnyrail said:
We used round rod on the Ruschbahn to represent a lighter kind of overhead with wire x supports. Problem you may have is expansion and contraction with your high day and colder nights. We made the pan sire so that it coukd move for the same reasons but I never won the argument about having weights at one end to allow for the variations. But on the whole it worked ok.
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I am not sure yet how I will tension it, springs seem easier , but weights are prototypical . I definitely will have to allow for expansion and contraction, plus the occasional knock. I guess it will be all part of the fun, to me it would not be a Swiss railway without it.
 
Stewie, I think that your chosen method will be just the thing.
When the CFR had catenary I used LGB throughout. I even ran power to it so that the locomotives with pantographs ran off the power.
I did have problems with wildlife getting entangled in the wires and the non metal posts on the rack line became brittle and broke after a few years.
 
grizzmo said:
Even if it only lasts a decade I do have about 40m of 16mm2 sdi 7/1.7mm, or 50m of 10mm2 building wire 7/1.3mm that's been sitting around for a few decades. So at least 250m-300m of single strand, I should be fine for materials
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See, you knee it would come in useful some day :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
 
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