Finally after several months of procrastinating and attempting to complete some of the finer details of the layout such as tram overhead wiring and the telephone poles, I finally completed it. My tramway system looks complete with overhead wiring.
Below is a photo of the screen looking on Crystal street bridge.
Technique for the telephone poles and wires
The tram poles and telephone poles were a combination of bamboo sticks and Rix Products Railroad telephone poles. I really like the Rix Products as the telephone poles are a taller than the Atlas branded ones. I also made some modifications so they would look more like the prototype in Sydney in the 1950s.
The telephone wires were made from 0.440mm gauge wire from Mitre 10.
Technique for the Tram overhead
I tried many attempts trying to use super glue to glue etched brass overhead fittings together to the wire without much success. The holes in the etched fittings were too small to put the brass wire through. I decided to do without the overhead fittings and just solder the wire together. After my old soldering iron died I decided to purchase a new solder iron with temperature control and also a new helping hands.
This assisted the job quite a lot. Also by adding further frogs to the overhead for curves the structure became stronger.
Below is a photo of the screen looking on Crystal street bridge.
Technique for the telephone poles and wires
The tram poles and telephone poles were a combination of bamboo sticks and Rix Products Railroad telephone poles. I really like the Rix Products as the telephone poles are a taller than the Atlas branded ones. I also made some modifications so they would look more like the prototype in Sydney in the 1950s.
Technique for the Tram overhead
This assisted the job quite a lot. Also by adding further frogs to the overhead for curves the structure became stronger.
