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So having finished putting in all the additional sleepers where they were missing it was time to go for some speed ballasting ala Charlie from Chadwick. A little bit of this Hopper 1.JPG resulting in a lot of this, that was suitably remedied with a hover over with a vacuum cleaner with the time hono...

It was a bit busy elsewhere this week so a couple a small jobs. The platforms were trimmed back to size, some cork strips were laid under the platforms be to raise them up to the right height for the rails. Timber blocks laid where the platforms carry across a baseboard join. After doing a final cle...

So what about the upper station was I not happy about then? The original original plan was to have a turntable on one side of the track and a yard on the other - with the main lines tracking diagonally across the board - but.... that would have made it all track and some of it would have been over t...

(Thanks for the welcome back - we are a busy clan so most of our pastimes get phases where we enjoy them and then are quietly left to wait. I never really go away ) Now ( Slightly out of Chronological order....) I had also been looking at the area above the two tunnel mouths. In order that it didnt ...

The Railway room got annexed as a study room for a state exam so not much happened for a while this year apart from the odd bit of Loco maintenance, it gave me time to contemplate a couple of things. First thing - the embankment. I wasn't happy with the masking tape and paint method I'd seen working...

I'm a bit late to this show ( and in no order of favouritism) but... Easy ones: Everard Junction Chadwick Dean Park New Junction simons shed ( does Hornby magazine count - great layout building features) General/Reviews: Jenny Kirk Sam's Trains EuviRail Larry Phuckett That Model railway guy Scenic: ...

I picked up a 5 car APT in a Sale and finally got it out of the box to run it in. I switched out the outer loop to analog control for the APT, put the IR A-class on a Guinness train on the middle loop and put a pair of IR 121 class locos on a container train on the inner loop. I find it wonderfully ...

Thanks for the suggestion on the individual tests - I was wondering if I could do something like that. The decoders had been working fine for more than a year I would think, so they were configured and working for a good amount of time without issue. From memory, 'I was operating one of the three wa...

It was too good to last. While doing a running session while some glue was setting ( nowhere near any points), the points suddenly stopped working - all of them! what I have is a Roco z21 z21.JPG and the red Multimaus MM.JPG and from DCC concepts - 2X2point decoders, 1X4point decoder and 1X8 point d...

Some time passed...... I started ballasting the inclined track - perhaps a year later - "Who's to say?" :o Suitable tools were used - note the "percussive persuader" to the right! Balasting101.JPG A spot of care and orange cabling around the points Balasting102.JPG This was aroun...

After all the foibles with the derailing I then went back to running some clearance tests with the longer locos, principally to see if they would foul the new tunnel entrances.... Ooops, a bit too close! This is going clockwise coming down from the bridge just as it goes on to the embankment. 1 TooT...

Once I had the derailment issue sorted I turned my thoughts to the scenery on the diagonal board. Tall straight retaining walls ( a board with 7 tracks crossing at 3 different levels without adding the trigonometric challenges with a sloping retaining wall on curves ), two tunnel entrances and some ...

Looking at what was happening my estimation was: Both locos are relatively short. Both Locos have all wheel drive via central motor to driven bogies because of the two driven bogies there is less up/down movement/articulation in the bogies, than on the locos with one driven bogie, to accommodate the...

Last year, a fine set of Irish Rail ( Iarnród Eireann) IE Locos became available, the first GM engined Irish loco - the 121 ( on the right) And then the A class ( on the left ) AClassandClass121.JPG The test running showed them both to be well detailed, well weighted and smooth running locos - Until...

Hi there, I'm a bit late in the game here, but here's my tuppance worth. I have three of the sl-E99 threeway points and they work away fine 99% (pun not intended) of the time. If I had my time again I would try one of the peco asymetrical 3 way points SL-e199 first. why? well the frogs in the SL-e99...