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THE OTTAWA VALLEY GARDEN RAILWAY SOCIETY
OUR MISSION:
To promote friendship and have fun through garden railroading.
GREATER VANCOUVER GARDEN RAILWAY CLUB
May 5, 2012 - Established in 1994, the Greater Vancouver Garden Railway Club now has over 200 members. The member's enjoy helping each other design, build, and operate garden railways.
The club layout is located at Art Knapp's Plantland in Surrey, BC. Members can be seen there running trains on most weekends during the summer months.
The club also has a modular layout used to display their trains in public locations for all to enjoy.
VERMONT GARDEN RAIL SOCIETY
April 26, 2012 - The Garden Railway Club Links were updated to include the Vermont Garden Rail Society.
WEST COAST GARDEN RAIL SOCIETY
April 23, 2012 - The Garden Railway Club Links were updated to include the West Coast Garden Rail Society on the East Shore of Lake Huron.
LGB POWER BOXCAR
April 22, 2012 – The article on how build an LGB power boxcar was updated. The lights, smoke units, and sound boards in some LGB locomotives will not function properly if they are powered with the Pulse Width Control (PWC) output of the Revolution receiver. An experienced LGB enthusiast has also expressed a concern that the PWC output will cause LGB motors to overheat. Fortunately Aristo-Craft has released a PWC to Linear DC Board (CRE 57091) to fix this problem.
It converts the Revolution receiver output from PWC back to linear DC. If installed in the output wires; motors, lights, smoke units, and sound boards would then behave exactly as they did with clean, linear DC, track power.
Although this power car was designed for a specific LGB locomotive, any car with the same components could be used to power and control any locomotive with an MU connector and the track power pick-ups turned off or removed.
The voltage regulators in most USA Trains and some Bachmann locomotives are not compatible with the PWC output of the Revolution receiver and the lights will not work. As most smoke units are powered by voltage regulators, they may not function either. Some older sound systems (Dallee, Sierra, etc.) will not function properly when powered with PWC. With a PWC to Linear DC Board installed in a power car however, all of these locomotives and sound boards will function exactly as they did with clean DC track power.
To view the LGB POWER BOXCAR article, just click on the link.
CLUB INFORMATION
The Ottawa Valley Garden Railroad Society is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information see the Club Information Page, or e-mail Fred Mills.
We do not publish a monthly newsletter. Instead we update our web site with articles and photos, and then post a news flash about the recent additions on this Home and News Page. Links for previously referenced articles and events are found in the Changes Log.
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Congratulations on the new look and your many years of most helpful and friendly service to the hobby. I wish the OVGRS and the IPP&W many more decades of success.