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The trials and tribulations of a very short preserved line in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

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Four weekends, four shows (of a sort)

The last four weeks have been busy, first there was the Ally Pally show, some purchases were made, but no "horrendous parchasing accidents", just some track, a Roco N DB 215 class, and a signal.   Next was a stag weekend in Bristol, a visit to the S.S. Great Britain and the Clifton suspension bridge included ( the joys of not staying up all night)...   Then NGS, even though I am a member of the 009 society, I decided to avoid the AGM and concentrate on the exhibits. Sorry guys, I know it has
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Ballasting cardboard

In my last post i mentioned cardboard.... Well it seems to work ok! I hhad expected the card to absord the PVA/water mix forcing me to soak it in over multiple evenings, however it looks like only one more selective dose will be required!   However I did fing it difficult to get the ballast nice and flat, in the end I used a 1" brush and gently laid it on the surface. Don't press or you get a ridge forming around the outside edge of the brush.   Another gotcha is that the drops made slight d
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Final stages of panic

Hi All,   I know it's been a long time but due to the holidays and all, not much has been done on any of my layouts. But with the Convention looming in less than a fortnight (and last weekend's horrible weather) I thought I'd better make some progress!   So last weekend I finally got around to doing some ballasting. As it was my first time I stayed well clear of the point work (I've already had to replace three of them).   As I'm building an Austrian layout the ballasting in the station lo
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Putting your foot in the brown stuff

Hi All,   With the brthday bash of the 009 society coming up I decided to register. So far so good, except that I then offered to bring along LüD and my multi gauge test track. Again so far so good, except for one tiny item: I've not really made any progres since ((a long time)!   So i have the board, with ramp and all the electrics are sorted. So logically next should be ballasting (probably), but I've never done that before and the shear number of points makes me queasy!   So should I pe
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An introduction to Linksüberdorf

As I now have two layouts in development (both HOe) and one in "Stock Collection" stage (N gauge) I thought I should separate my Linksuberdorf entries from the big HOe layout (Gerlos).   LUD started back in March when I came across my pile of Peco points (10 of them) that I bought about 6 years ago when I started to think about building a proper layout for my then very small collection oh HOe rolling stock. I also had a piece of 12mm 3 foot square MDF, so I laid out the points on the board and
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