The Randall Museum in San Francisco hosts a large HO-scale model model railroad. Created by the Golden Gate Model Railroad Club starting in 1961, the layout was donated to the Museum in 2015. Since then I have started automatizing trains running on the layout. I am also the model railroad maintainer. This blog describes various updates on the Randall project and I maintain a separate blog for all my electronics not directly related to Randall.
2023-04-30 - Maintenance: Lights!
Category RandallWith Orion and Allen, we fixed the lighting on top of the Richmond yard. This area had been fairly dark for a while since one of the fixtures did not work, and changing the other one required some acrobatics. Orion took care of changing the dead fluorescent lights by crawling on the yard to change one of the tubes!
The middle fixture had not been working for a while. It’s one of the 60s-era ballasts that is both antiquated and dead.
It took quite time and effort to remove the obsolete fixture:
We replaced it with a Lithonia CMNS L48 2LL (80 CRI, 4500 lumens, 4000 K).
The area with the new lights in place:
We’ve also changed two more fixtures’ fluorescent tubes on top of the Stockton Yard and it made a big difference:
To finish the maintenance day, Orion did a bit more vacuuming while I painted the cardboard guardrail in the Lodi curve:
For Orion:
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