I have recently bought the menards power plant and would like to add a sub-station. Is there a supplier that makes one? If not is there products to buy to make your own. Happy Holidays and Thank you
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Don't know what era you model but the November 2015 Railroad Model Craftsman magazine had an in depth article on scratchbuilding a modern era electric substation (in HO scale).
The older ones had different "infrastructure" since the old transformers and circuit breakers look much different since the technology has changed quite a bit.
I found this topic on the forum. https://ogrforum.com/topic/substation-project
One of my favorite substation features on the Pennsy...the larger transformers were installed on rail perpendicular to the tracks. This allowed ease of installation and replacement by rail.
Here's an interesting article if you want a mobile substation. http://scienceservice.si.edu/pages/012039.htm
Here is one we have on the club layout. Can't say I know where the materials came from. I'm pretty sure it made the move from our old location so it could have been built a long time ago.
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Korber Models has a nice substation building, the 917 kit
I also found the Walthers HO substation transformer set looked ok, since transformers come in all sizes and are not really to scale
Here is the kit on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Walther...sories/dp/B000GQWJ6G
Here is a portion of it used with the Korber Kit
The RMC article was 1:48. I know... I wrote it. If you wish, I can send you some of the drawing I used to build it. I would not recommend building the ABB hybrid breakers. They were difficult, produced on a model maker's lathe and took all my skills to pull off. The other parts could be build all in styrene and therefore crafted in more normal tools and materials.
There is a great article in the May/June 1937 issue of model builder mag that tells how to make an operating substation. You can view the issue at trainlife.com
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This one might be too big, but it makes a nice center piece. It's 24" X 10" with a Brennen Chain Link Fence. This is a step-down station. At a power plant you want to develop a step up station. There's lots of information available on the web about substation design. That's how I built this.
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Those look sweet. Now that the weather is getting crappy in the northeast will be looking to make some additions. I love my menards power station. Still want to redo the smoke stacks. Have the power plant on one side of my layout and the substation on the other side. Must admit I always loved power plants with big stacks and substations trying to figure out how much electricity is being generated. Still wouldn't mind a nuclear power plant!
High smoke stacks over here have red lights on them to warn light aircraft.
Maybe an LED or two?
Great thread and ideas. I am planning to use a Lionel electric sub station building as a small power plant for engine house and local area rr associated structures.
MaxSouthOz posted:High smoke stacks over here have red lights on them to warn light aircraft.
Maybe an LED or two?
I wish I had the skill set to do that. That would be sooooo freakin cool. I have seen some people add a smoking feature on there stacks. Add that and some blinking avaiation lights would be amazing!
jjmmagoo posted:MaxSouthOz posted:High smoke stacks over here have red lights on them to warn light aircraft.
Maybe an LED or two?
I wish I had the skill set to do that. That would be sooooo freakin cool. I have seen some people add a smoking feature on there stacks. Add that and some blinking avaiation lights would be amazing!
I used this blinking LED set on my water tower. I put it in the base and ran fiber optic line to the top as the light. They are sold out on line but may still be available in stores.
https://www.radioshack.com/pro...-blinking-led-module
