mickoo
Western Thunderer
About time...........and then there's all the German stuff to look forward to....
Tim
I need to sort my V100 and V200 out at some point.
About time...........and then there's all the German stuff to look forward to....
Tim
Hi,
For once, the Gods of garden railways were with us, and we had a nice sunny day to work outside on the garden railway.
Tim was continuing with the wiring for DCC; he's at the stage where we need one more day to have the main circuits powered, and then another couple of days to work back to the storage/steam-up area and the pointwork. We'll then be able to run those nice German locos.
Allan and I laid the last point and completed the trackwork. A momentous day indeed. OK, we still have to check alignment. levels, cant etc, and add the point control rodding, but nevertheless a milestone has been reached.
Clive came along to supervise over lunch, and it was good to see him again after his enforced absence.
Allan insisted on a group photo to mark the occasion:
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The two sidings on the right is the steam-up area, the stub siding to the right is for storage boxes for track powered locos so that we can run from the box to the track, and the three main storage roads are to the left. Minimum radius 10 ft throughout.
Richard
A strimmer was actually used recently. Yes, more could to be done, but we have to get down to the primary business of running trains! You didn't see me earlier in the day cutting the grass edges with one handed shears, clipping overhanging shrubs, cutting plastic track supports to help level one circuit, running my r/c Black 5 & coaches to check the improved track, etc... It's not perfect yet, but is improving.And I think a strimmer needs to be added to the shopping list ......
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Glad you like it Martyn, all the best,Morning Steve,
The comment was very tongue in cheek, I think you guys have done an amazing job and the way the line flows reminds me of the Harz mountain line what with the German locos, looks great.
Cheers,
Martyn.