ant31117
Western Thunderer
First steps into the garden
Hi all
On the 'new members' forum I was encouraged to post a few pics of my embryonic garden railway layout, so here it is. As you can see its early stages yet, and I've temporarily run out of track to lay, but I'm finding it very engaging to build. I've also enjoyed dusting off basic woodworking skills that I've not used since school days!
Several years ago when we had a new garage built, I asked the brickie to leave a strategically placed loose brick, with the intention of running into the garage with a garden railway. Back then I assumed I would be going for '00', so with my decision to swap to '0', the 'tunnel portal' needed enlarging a little! In the garage itself, I intend there to be a station and platform between the far track and the brick wall. The first timber section over the patio will be a girder bridge of some kind (does anyone produce bridge girders in 7mm scale?) with the second timber section perhaps on a retaining wall. The line will then strike out along the edge of the lawn, but in what form I haven't quite decided - maybe on top of a rockery (expensive I guess), raised timber sections on metposts, or some sort of embankment.
This brings me to my first question for the forum. Having soldered up all my feed wires for DCC on the track layout you see here, I am finding that it all works perfectly, apart from the two points outside. When the loco moves over them it shorts out, which the Peco leaflet said might happen, but strangely, all the points inside work fine. I have left the wires under all the points unsnipped as the chap I spoke to at Digitrains said this shouldn't be necessary. As yet all the points do not have the supplementary switches that I have read are a good idea, would the addition of these solve the issue? Apologies for what I'm sure is a basic question.
Looking at these pics reminds me my next little job must be to add some buffer stops before I have an accident!
Cheers
Ant
Hi all
On the 'new members' forum I was encouraged to post a few pics of my embryonic garden railway layout, so here it is. As you can see its early stages yet, and I've temporarily run out of track to lay, but I'm finding it very engaging to build. I've also enjoyed dusting off basic woodworking skills that I've not used since school days!
Several years ago when we had a new garage built, I asked the brickie to leave a strategically placed loose brick, with the intention of running into the garage with a garden railway. Back then I assumed I would be going for '00', so with my decision to swap to '0', the 'tunnel portal' needed enlarging a little! In the garage itself, I intend there to be a station and platform between the far track and the brick wall. The first timber section over the patio will be a girder bridge of some kind (does anyone produce bridge girders in 7mm scale?) with the second timber section perhaps on a retaining wall. The line will then strike out along the edge of the lawn, but in what form I haven't quite decided - maybe on top of a rockery (expensive I guess), raised timber sections on metposts, or some sort of embankment.
This brings me to my first question for the forum. Having soldered up all my feed wires for DCC on the track layout you see here, I am finding that it all works perfectly, apart from the two points outside. When the loco moves over them it shorts out, which the Peco leaflet said might happen, but strangely, all the points inside work fine. I have left the wires under all the points unsnipped as the chap I spoke to at Digitrains said this shouldn't be necessary. As yet all the points do not have the supplementary switches that I have read are a good idea, would the addition of these solve the issue? Apologies for what I'm sure is a basic question.
Looking at these pics reminds me my next little job must be to add some buffer stops before I have an accident!
Cheers
Ant