Point rodding and signal pulleys


by Russ Elliott

Point rodding any layout is a long job, and Green Street's rodding was a genuine group effort, with everyone doing their bit. The full story of the rodding was given in Scalefour News 108. These colour pictures are additional to those given in the Scalefour News article, and also show some of the recently-added signal pulleys, which are from the Brassmasters etches, but doubled in thickness.

Some of the signal pulleys are missing from the pictures, and not all of them have been fitted with their top cradles. We're not happy with the shape of some of the belltops on the cranks, so these will have to be remade.

We keep arguing about whether the signal wires themselves could or should be modelled - it scales down to about 1.5 thou in 4mm scale...
The rodding complexity in front of the signal box

Signal wire pulleys and post


The rodding outside the signal box looking along the line of the track Unpainted compensators

More signal pulleys

Different view of the same pulleys

Painted compensators


© Russ Elliott
May 1999