I haven't posted in ages so here's an update.I've been spending quite a bit of time playing with sound-chips for my locos, working on a section of the club layout and trying various weathering techniques.
On the sound-chip front I've installed Howes sound chips into a Bachmann Pannier Tank loco, 2 Hornby GWR Flying Bananas, 2 Heljan Class 33 Cromptons and a Bachy Class 108 2-car DMU. They were all quick and easy installs except for the Pannier...that required a bit of chopping and cutting but r
So..back to the present layout.
Here's an overhead view of the layout...essentialy the right-hand side is a 3 track Inglenook with the shortest front track haveing a kickback sideing that serves the local fuel company, the left side is a 2 track inglenook and the two are joined by a runaround. the rear right hand track is the branchline that heads off the right rear side to the rest of the world
Scenery was the standard techniques and materials...Woodland Scenics, dried tea from used tea-b
Ok...here's the next installment. My venture into the world of DCC...but first I have to backtrack in time...
After I finished the 6ft x2ft layout that I built a number of years years ago, (I mentioned it and posted pics of it in the second entry of this blog) I took a few years to read, do research,accumulate stock and armchair( build in my mind) my next layout. One of the things I knew I wanted to do on the next layout, along with makeing it very lightweight and trying the bike-spoke po
So I ended my last entry with rhetorical questions.."so what did it all lead to? where am I in the hobby now??? "
I suspect there's no single easy answer but I'll put it in a nutshell...it led me to the idea that there is no set answer...nothing is set in concrete, everything is open to discovery and experiment..it's a hobby and that means it is fun so lose the fun and it's not worth doing.
I became fascinated with the ideas expounded on Carl Arendts' site and in Model Trains International, t
Ok folks, so now that I'm getting a handle on this new site and this blog stuff I'll try to be a bit more informative about myself and my railroading interests... and add some more pics since each one is worth a thousand words :icon_mrgreen:
About 8 years ago,due to a medical issue I had to give up my first love, scuba-diving, and my scuba business. As such I found I had quite a bit of spare time on my hands and, for various reasons which I won't bore you with, but they include christmas tr
Hello everybody,
First I'd like to say that, now that I'm getting a better handle on this blog thing I decided to add just a quick intro today, Oct 22, 2009, telling a bit about myself and my modeling philosophy.
I got interested in model railways about 10 years ago while recovering from a bit of a health issue. Now I had the usual circle of track under the Christmas tree some 50 years ago but I was never very interested in trains and such. My main modeling focus, into my late teens, was
