Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Not a lot if the absence of posts is anything to go by... however recent bursts of activity have gone without report in the different internet worlds, hence this topic.
I am not sure what I did or when I did it..... however, I found myself offering to help Adrian with some S7 track. The next thing I knew was reading in a post to Basilica Fields that a quantity of sleepers, rail and other track necessities were on their way to my letter box . After putting my head above the proverbial parapet I asked just what I was supposed to be doing.... "how about 80 feet of track for the Metropolitan Railway in the first module?" was the reply . Now I knew nothing about Met Rly track at that time so oft we jolly well went and questions were asked, replies were considered and a very large number of photograph thumbnails were studied (where large means more than 4,500 images). Slowly a picture emerged as to what the Met Rly was doing with track in the period 1885-1905 and that information has been written-up as an entry in the Basilica Fields journal. Now all that I have to do is build the track.... after converting around 1,500 4-bolt Midland chairs into 2-bolt Metropolitan chairs .
Adrian is not content with giving out one interesting exercise.... the next challenge came swiftly. "Just what did the GWR do for PW and S&C work in the 1880s?" was a simple enough question and one which could not be ignored as the first part of Basilica Fields has a GWR Goods Depot connected to the Metropolitan Railway "main line". Yet another post to the Basilica Fields journal provides the starting point for this bit of the model.
So there has been a lot of digging in books, a tremendous amount of reading of accident reports and a fair bit of preparation.... and the first batch of sleepers have been stained. Adrian might have his 80 feet of track by the end of the month.
The Basilica Fields journal can be found at:- http://basilicafields.wordpress.com/ and your comments will be welcome there.
regards, Graham
I am not sure what I did or when I did it..... however, I found myself offering to help Adrian with some S7 track. The next thing I knew was reading in a post to Basilica Fields that a quantity of sleepers, rail and other track necessities were on their way to my letter box . After putting my head above the proverbial parapet I asked just what I was supposed to be doing.... "how about 80 feet of track for the Metropolitan Railway in the first module?" was the reply . Now I knew nothing about Met Rly track at that time so oft we jolly well went and questions were asked, replies were considered and a very large number of photograph thumbnails were studied (where large means more than 4,500 images). Slowly a picture emerged as to what the Met Rly was doing with track in the period 1885-1905 and that information has been written-up as an entry in the Basilica Fields journal. Now all that I have to do is build the track.... after converting around 1,500 4-bolt Midland chairs into 2-bolt Metropolitan chairs .
Adrian is not content with giving out one interesting exercise.... the next challenge came swiftly. "Just what did the GWR do for PW and S&C work in the 1880s?" was a simple enough question and one which could not be ignored as the first part of Basilica Fields has a GWR Goods Depot connected to the Metropolitan Railway "main line". Yet another post to the Basilica Fields journal provides the starting point for this bit of the model.
So there has been a lot of digging in books, a tremendous amount of reading of accident reports and a fair bit of preparation.... and the first batch of sleepers have been stained. Adrian might have his 80 feet of track by the end of the month.
The Basilica Fields journal can be found at:- http://basilicafields.wordpress.com/ and your comments will be welcome there.
regards, Graham