Peter Smith
Active Member
Don't worry - this is nothing to do with Brexit! Eu is a French loco shed layout built by John Smith and myself, and also a real town close to Le Treport on the French coast.
When we built the layout we decided to make the tracks onto the turntable so they didn't line up with the one opposite, forcing us to use the turntable more but it was a mistake and made operating more difficult. We have made a new 4' board and now the tracks all line up so we can run straight across the table without moving it...apart from anything else we can now have a 241 Mountain if we see one for sale, and that wouldn't fit on the turntable despite it being 72' diameter.
This is the new board...it's all got to be finished to take to Boulogne at the end of October.
The new tracks are obvious, giving us much more storage space. The new board replaces on that was 2' long to the whole layout is only 2' longer. We now have a siding for the oil tankers which previously blocked the oil fuel gantry.
The SNCF concrete stop blocks are built from plastic.
My aim is to ballast it before going to Folkestone show this weekend in the hope that it will have set when I get back next Monday. I'll post some more pictures when it's all finished.
Peter
When we built the layout we decided to make the tracks onto the turntable so they didn't line up with the one opposite, forcing us to use the turntable more but it was a mistake and made operating more difficult. We have made a new 4' board and now the tracks all line up so we can run straight across the table without moving it...apart from anything else we can now have a 241 Mountain if we see one for sale, and that wouldn't fit on the turntable despite it being 72' diameter.
This is the new board...it's all got to be finished to take to Boulogne at the end of October.
The new tracks are obvious, giving us much more storage space. The new board replaces on that was 2' long to the whole layout is only 2' longer. We now have a siding for the oil tankers which previously blocked the oil fuel gantry.
The SNCF concrete stop blocks are built from plastic.
My aim is to ballast it before going to Folkestone show this weekend in the hope that it will have set when I get back next Monday. I'll post some more pictures when it's all finished.
Peter