I was determined to come up with a solution that anyone else could do, so I resisted the advice to start cutting and ordered all stock parts. So, I bought the parts I thought I needed, and it took a fair amount of playing around to get it right.īelow is how close I got with the AnyRail software:
ANYRAIL SOFTWARE WONT INSTALL FREE
I decided to use the free software AnyRail, but quickly found that it is not accurate in respect to the diverging angle of the switches. R022 and R023 55mm remote turnouts (22 is left and 23 is right), which also come with the trimmed piece of straight track so a standard track can be used on the diverging track. For DC operation, I'll add a switch to disable the autoreverser. To make it interesting, I added a reversing loop and a spur. I'll use a voltage dropper to reduce the voltage. I would power this from the track, so it would run on my G scale DCC layout, transferring the DCC signal from the G scale trucks to the Z scale "layout". I figured this would just fit on my Aristo-Craft 40 ' flat car. Rokuhan just had announced their new small curved track, R046 - 45mm radius, 45° - pack of 4 - brown wood ties. Since I also run G scale, I thought it would be fun to see if I could fit a working Z scale layout on a G scale flat car. Z scale layout on a G scale flat car The Idea