Electric trains in maintenance buildings

[Hayashi]

Does anyone know how electric-powered trains and locos move into a maintenance building? I've tried finding photos to see if there are catenaries (or at least one wire) inside the building or if they are pulled in via a tug. I know, sounds like a stupid question.

[bill937ca]

Toronto uses a giant extension cord attached to third rail shoes to move trains into its Davisville subway carhouse.

[kvp]

Some buildings have wires in them that could be turned off. Usually you see a notch cut out on the top of the doors to allow them to be closed around the wires.

 

Older buildings, especially steam era roundhouses lack wires and elrctric locos need a diesel or battery shunter to get in.

 

Modern factories also use road rail tractors, but this is less common for maintenance buildings.

[Lina_Blue]

Some new maintenance buildings use a suspended rail for catenary and can even swivel it out of the way for maintenance work on the roof.

[Densha]

What country exactly are we talking about here? Japan, Australia, Kazakhstan, or just depots in general?

[gavino200]

7 hours ago, Hayashi said:

Does anyone know how electric-powered trains and locos move into a maintenance building? I've tried finding photos to see if there are catenaries (or at least one wire) inside the building or if they are pulled in via a tug. I know, sounds like a stupid question.

 

The first two and a half minutes of this video show a guy working on the pantographs of a German ICE in a maintenance building. Basically there are catenary wires in the building. They are insulated from the mainline and can be turned off so the workers can do their tasks in safety. It's in German but you can get the gist.

 

 

[kvp]

8 hours ago, Densha said:

What country exactly are we talking about here? Japan, Australia, Kazakhstan, or just depots in general?

Personally i was talking about Japan. Also if you check the available models, every building with overhead wire support has those small cutouts on the doors. If the building has no such thing, then it's steam and diesel only and electric trains need shunters to move in and out.

[Hayashi]

I was asking about Japan, but this is all helpful. Looked for the notches in Kato, Tomix, Tomytec, and Greenmax sheds. Kato 23-300 has door notches. Greenmax 2123 has shortened doors at the top rather than notches. Greenmax 2148 does not appear to have any doors. Tomytec 289685 has door notches. Tomix 4212 does not appear to have any doors.

[Hayashi]

Also, Ngineer has a single track loco building at https://www.shapeways.com/product/H9S5KU8A5/n-scale-train-maintenance-building?optionId=57447088&li=marketplace.. It has a roll-up door (permanently open). It is also missing an outside wall so the interior is visible. However, he said he can produce a separate wall to enclose the building, but still have it removable for viewing.

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[cteno4]

Nice little shed, but the cost of 3D printing for larger pieces makes these pricey. One other issue to be aware of is 3D printing even at high resolution at n scale over larger areas can look a tad grainy. The larger the area the more the eye can notice it. On some surfaces it’s to your advantage! There are some primers now that can help smooth the grainy texture.

 

Pike stuff does nice kits of this style that are inexpensive and usually have some easy hack points to customize. 

 

https://www.nscalesupply.com/PIK/PIK-8002.html

 

https://www.nscalesupply.com/PIK/PIK-buildings.htm

 

They also sell details for structures

 

https://www.nscalesupply.com/PIK/PIK-Accessories.htm

 

with some modding these could be similar small warehouse or sheds from japan. Rollup doors are and issue for overhead I guess they could have a gap with a temp jumper plate. 

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

[bill937ca]

Here is the assembly process for a Greenmax 2123 train shed.

http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/blog01/archives/55562

 

http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/gmstore-staff/archives/22061

 

http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/gmstore-staff/archives/22102

 

http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/gmstore-staff/archives/22167

 

http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/gmstore-staff/archives/22210

 

http://www.gm-store.co.jp/blog/gmstore-staff/archives/22255

[ConnieCommie]

In NYC cars that need to be moved in on the Commuter lines use either a full-sized diesel (NYCTA Subway is fond of this) or a Road/Rail Railcar Mover (Mostly the LIRR)