A very Happy New Year and all the best for 2012!
I'm pleased to report Neptune Road is in the Feb 2012 edition of Model Rail magazine with a very big thanks to Marc for the excellent picturers.
Best wishes
Roger
It's been a while since I blogged. I have been pottering around on Neptune Road adding odds and ends as well as weathering wagons, fitting Kadees and shunting with the 63'er (Baby Warship/Class 22 if you prefer).
Local exhibition looming next month!
I had prepared some small playing cards to use, each one relating to a wagon. 8 wagons are placed on the layout, 8 cards are shuffled and 5 are drawn and the 5 wagons then have to be gathered in that order with 3 being "in the way". It can t
TINY TENT AT TYWYN
I spent an enjoyable couple of days near Tywyn over Easter in my tiny tent. Took the service train to Porthmadog and a nose around the Welsh Highland.
Back in Tywyn and a wander along Neptune Road...
A spot of track cleaning anyone?
Despite it's size - which in fact is a daft way of starting off a blog entry on such an important subject - the old nook depends greatly on very slow speed running. Slow speed running needs clean wheels and track. Despite the wonders of dcc there is no excuse. It's often a question i ask at exhibitions "what do you use to clean the track?" I recently tried Rail Zip 2. Soaked a cotton bud with it and ran it along the rail and left over night. Pretty good resu
RAIL ROVER
Cheers Mikkel for the comment. Are you going to try a lump of the insulation foam stuff?
Here's a pic of Rover, sitting in his fave spot on the PW trolley. He likes sniffing the diesel fumes - don't we all
Roger
Detailing has been slowly progressing with weeds and weathering to ground cover. Some tatty concrete fence posts were cemented in this morning and metal rails, already rusting and past their best, were added between them. The faded Class 22 has been trundling about on shunting duty and a local hound has decided to take up home on board the old PW wagon.
Also been tweaking my Kadee's (oh err Mrs) to ensure trouble free working.
Cheers
Roger
SHUNTING - TIDDLY ?
I have read several ideas with regard to shunting on an inglenook. Clearly there is the option of randomly shunting wagons from one siding to another, perhaps moving the wagons to end up with them in the reverse order to the order they started in etc. Then there is the tiddly wink computer or the playing card/waybill idea as featured in Model Trains International etc
I decided to use the playing card option and 8 wagons.
I was lucky to get a mini sized pack of pl
After fitting resistance to the axles of the wagons I have selected and now fitted with Kadee's for use on Neptune Road, I am pleased to report 99.9% uncoupling every time.
As the first exhibition outing is now on the cards for June, detailing work continues.
Thanks for looking
Roger
Picture taken by Marc Smith
I had wanted to build a small Inglenook style layout for some time now and having purchased a piece of loft insulation foam before Christmas - on the recomendation of Marc Smith for it's ease of use and lightness of weight - work has progressed.
I wanted to use a Class 24/22/35 for shunting rather than an 08 etc, so careful planning and a change to Kadee's have resulted in this..
Marc kindly took the superb photo's
Cheers
Roger
