Ladders for signals

I've been looking for them for a while too, Mike.

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This may be a 3D printing project.

I see you are in Shawnee, KS, try Fred's Train Shop in Overland Park. He carries some Peco stuff. What he doesn't have he can order. It also seems like I have seen some ladders there, not sure the brand though, hanging on the west wall where the O gauge items are. He doesn't have a big website, but contact info is on website. I'm not far from you, in west Lenexa.

Mike not sure  how handy you are but they are easily fabricated with a jig and brass wire, just solder them  to any length required.  if you are doing a lot of them you will benefit from the economy of scale in terms of time and material costs .  Besides brass is the way to go stronger and easily manipulated if you need to bend it etc.  Just my .02.  Jon

        Mike 

        I've used 1/4" inch wire mesh screening with what I think are good results.

        I don't have a very clear picture but the ladder on my signal bridge is 1/4 inch mesh screening cut, filed and painted silver.

        Real easy to do and a small piece of screening makes lots of ladders.  

        Any good hardware store should carry it.

       Give it a shot.          

                                                                                 Dan                        

RTR12,

You are very close to me, I am just west of k7.  Maybe we should try to catch up sometime.

Dan,

Your idea on the mesh screen is awesome!  I picked some up tonight, and the way it is manufactured, some rows are tighter and others wider making it work even better.  While not a perfect match for the atlas ones, I am really happy with it.  The bonus is I was able to solder brass to it .  Thanks so much for the suggestion.  

Btw, your signal bridges look very nice.

Picture below.

thanks,

Mike

Hump Yard Mike posted:

RTR12,

You are very close to me, I am just west of k7.  Maybe we should try to catch up sometime.

Dan,

Your idea on the mesh screen is awesome!  I picked some up tonight, and the way it is manufactured, some rows are tighter and others wider making it work even better.  While not a perfect match for the atlas ones, I am really happy with it.  The bonus is I was able to solder brass to it .  Thanks so much for the suggestion.  

Btw, your signal bridges look very nice.

Picture below.

thanks,

Mike

I could live with that, even though they are a bit wide, and the rung spacing is a little too close. The cost and simplicity more than make up for those minor details. I might even have a roll of that out in the garage. It still needs hand made platforms and hand rails, but that's not as bad as hand making all those rungs.

Dan and RTR12 those are two great ideas.

Buzz

That sounds good Mike, my email is in my profile. You are just up the street from us, we are at 7 & Prairie Star, also just west of 7 a few blocks. Sounds like we are almost neighbors.

And I think that wire mesh idea looks pretty good too. 

And Thanks, TPLee

       Glad you gave it a try Mike.

       Look forward to seeing some signals.

       As you pointed out it's not a perfect but it does give good results.

                                                                                    Dan