Castell Mawr - A joint GWR/LMS route

[Dad-1]

I thank you gentlemen for the kind comments.
It's a great 'hobby' and allowing for health I hope to have many more years,
but this will be the 'One and only' large layout. It's great watching young
children's eyes following long freights .... But thank heavens my next outing
at the Yeovil Railway Centre over 13 & 14 May will be the "Thomas" layout.

Geoff T.

[End2end]

What great long trains. Very impressive.
Thanks
End2end

[TimberSurf]

hey Dad1

Highly jealous of your long rakes, highly jealous of a whole day playing trains on a luverly big layout, not jealous of all the hard work of load up, transport, setup, breakdown, transport, unload and store! (I know what a b$*l ache it is , having done a few)

[Dad-1]

Hi TimberSurf,

Every pleasure has a cost ?
You must know that a couple of days later you forget the pain !!
Lucky as I had helpers on break-down and the extent of damage
was a cycle shed roof detached, and a Metcalfe chimney dislodged,
all invisibly repaired in seconds rather than minutes.

Damage is the one thing that anyone exhibiting has to accept. So much
is very delicate, in fact I'm still amazed that the finger sign post came
home in one piece, I broke one making it !!

I will also add my thanks to everyone on NRM as if I'm going through a
lean non-productive spell seeing the super work of others soon pulls me
back.

Geoff T.

[Dad-1]

Right, I'm under no illusion that this is going to be anything other than a real slog.
I'm planning to replace pictures going back to 2011 which are scattered around various
hard drives from long defunct computers. I may not be able to find all and it will take
months.
I'm starting with the newest first and that includes a series from a friend that did not
have easily found identifying numbers. Just wish me luck, I shall need it !!

Geoff T.

[railwayjim]

See you later in the year Geoff!!

[Dad-1]

This year Jim ?
Back to page 42 completed .......
One day later I'm back to page 36 ........ I would much prefer to be wagon making !!


Geoff T.

[Dad-1]

A second potential disaster has been removed.
This last weekend I've had my son crawl around my shed and replace the beginning to leak
felt roof with one of corrugated composite sheeting. I still have to finish some detail, but
CM should now sit in a more predictable environment ..... although still a shed !!

Back to and including page 28 has photos reinstated, Jim you're right about this one taking
time. I did a rough count and there are nearly 700 photographs still in my CM files. Not all
were used, but quite a high percentage, perhaps half ? Now the workbench is full repaired
this is the next priority.

Geoff T.

[Dad-1]

Uugghhh,

Something I'd forgotten !!
Back around page 21 I'd been using Imageshack for a while because PB were such a useless
set-up. The trouble was Imageshack then went subscription only, not at a blackmail rate like PB,
but why pay ? I now find I have about 10 pages where all it says is 'Image' and no photo code !!
This can still be completed as I have all bar the odd photo, but working out exactly what should
be where is going to be very slow.
I've decided now to start back at the beginning on page 1 in 2011 !!

For other re-builders .... I feel your pain !!

Geoff T.

[Dad-1]

Perhaps I'm one of life's worriers, but I take pride in my layouts working well
at exhibitions. That is so long as there's no accidents during transit and set-up.

Well CM is out to the Weymouth Exhibition on 28th and 29th of October, time to
start worrying, NO, time to do some homework in the shed. Here cleaning tracks
and in so doing powering up each board via the latches that I use as board power
supply to the main bus. One point had a Peco polarity switch fallen off, a regular
problem and another had corrosion between the bus wire and latch. Tracks being
cleaned as I go ..... I'll sleep much better once I know it's all 100%.



My timely warning to those who plan large layouts - SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL !!!!!

Geoff T.

[TimberSurf]

I quite fancy have a go at exhibitions (in the years to come when my standards improve), but I feel your pain at the maintenance aspect, one I need to be warey of, as I always think big!
Re photopit &*%$! I have not suffered and am lucky as a comparative latecomer (to this forum) that I can post direct to the forum, but potentially could also host on my webserver, but the one thing I have learnt a long while back, is to name pics by subject then by sub subject. That way I can search for them and can also find descriptively, wherever they lie (ties in with subject of thread). It also enables public searches and forum searches to find pics directly as well as by the textual write up.

[TimberSurf]

So Dad-1 does a lot of Peeing?

[Bufferstop]

Dave's missed out the P in the middle, at least its in the version I leaned
But it would come out as **** thanks to the board's paranoid robot.

[Dad-1]

Yes Bufferstop, the version I knew had pi ss in it as well.

Filters are so stupid !!

Geoff T.

[Bufferstop]

That stupid that an old hand like me knows exactly how to defeat it, and anyone can do it. Just have to keep it to myself.