Scenic fiddle yards .
When you think how much space a fiddle yard takes , why not make it look like the yard / carriage sidings?
here is the fiddle yard or Edge Hill “Gullet” Sidings.
TheLiverpool North Docks traffic has historically gone to edge hill and the passenger services via Edge Hill , so might as well name the yard after the place.
Well it’s taken many years of dreaming , semi retirement , taking the classic car from the garage and a purchase of a second hand fantastic layout to make real progress .
it’s the spirit of Alex Dock and the traffic that was in Liverpool in the 1980s.
I wish I could find images ( outside of the 2 steam rail tours) of Alexandra Dock LNWR before the 1980s but after 5 years of internet trawling I guess I have found about 20 .
Still here is an image of a freight trip on the layout . Lots
A second hand layout and a third hand modelling amateur.
Still stock that had been stored for various lengths of time is finally moving as the layout is recommissioned in its new home. There is also a major change of location and era but we will get there slowly.
Well with the track going down , the stock is being sorted .
Bemo German steam locos were never going to be part of the roster at £500/600 of our Uk pounds .
However one older version came up at the 009 shop and whilst still £100 , the chance to have a stunning 0-10-0 was too much .
So it will join the other steamer on the north branch .
UPDATE --- Track down and wires soldered !!! 10 days after I started , 2 burn marks from forgetting about solder iron , 13 main fiddle yard lines , 4 holding sidings . 18 isolation switches all in place (see below).
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Ok its amazing how long these things take !!!
So to recap ...
Now we have a room , heating , security , lighting , power . Baseboards buit (not by me but by a great friend who did a stunning job) I added
Really good to have a break and depart to a friends house not too far away for an operating session .
4 hours running the timetable between 4 of us including the freight traffic so sort out .
DCC was interesting .
Good to use DCC but you really do need to know the stock numbers ! Working signals to drive between operates are a positive and freight rules are needed (a brake van is on the back!)
Certainly hours past quickly and showed (for me) why the system needs to be develope
Part 1 --- Electrics again !
One way to create a diesel fleet in HOe / OO9 is to take a Roco 1099 electric remove pantograph cover recess add some form of exhaust port and you have a reliable mainline performer . Google some images and some when repainted look really good . Sometimes these conversations turn up on the 009 shop or Ebay .
Here are a couple of images of some recently "rescued " locos that have been reconverted back to electrics by removing the diesel exhausts , cleaning u
Somebody said to me always do some modelling , its all progress.
So 3 seconds - added the timetables and the parking sign with a blob of glue (that is the back of Oberaudorf station )
So 2 new Austrian tractors for sale in the shed attached to the Warehouse 'Lagerhaus" . The lean too is agin from the scrap box and just some left over parts . Its true a lot of Fendt tractors are sold from such locations and I have plenty of these bought cheaply from a toy shop in Austria . I still need
Well given its Christmas here is my small exhibition layout based very loosely on Guesswork on the Mariazellbahn .
It allows me to run HOe narrow gauge 1099 eletrcis plus various units and diesel haulage ...
Its a bi of fun
So lots of jobs done over Christmas period .
The kit building are all now built . Lots more to do but flower boxes now all added and it is coming on , slowly !
Building Lighting will come from a battery powered string of lights from Wilkos - £2 They will run in a channel in he underlay , with the batteries and switch in a garage building .
The Ikea shelf has not had its base flooring cover of earth brown from a Wilkos £1 match pot . I know this is hardly Pendon but I have never fini
So the diesels are locos from Stangl models as per Waidhofen shed allocation and Also St Polton Shed . as per the electric locos this allows proper diagrams for the fleet .
Then there are a couple of fanasty special livery locos .
With the line linking Mariazell system to Ybbstalbahn system at Lunzer See station it allows me to have all the 1099's narrow gauge electric locos . I also have a few in fantasy liveries ( you never really see this in UK modelling) . Here is a line up on my diorama backscene .
These locos run from fiddle yard one to Lunzer and then into the electric holding sidings before being replaced by a diesel for the run to Waidhofen . They are also used in my small eletric terminal exhibition layout
With the line linking Mariazell system to Ybbstalbahn system at Lunzer See station it allows me to have all the 1099's narrow gauge electric locos . I also have a few in fantasy liveries ( you never really see this in UK modelling) . Here is a line up on my diorama backscene .
These locos run from fiddle yard one to Lunzer and then into the electric holding sidings before being replaced by a diesel for the run to Waidhofen . They are also used in my small eletric terminal exhibition layout-
So its a start and some fun but the fire station extension has started !!!
By the way the plastic glue I have used sends you high in 2 minutes !!!!!!
Is there a glue for plastic kits / general that is harmless and does not clog up ????????
Latest pic , extention looks ok .
So the goods shed is no longer a goods shed instead its cycle hire which is typical use of he remaining goods sheds in this part of the world .
The stickers are taken from a holiday brochure for the village .
Lots more to do but its a start
So I have a station and good shed very close to the real thing at Lunz am See (most on Austrian narrow gauge are a variation on a standard design) but when the home layout will be in german model mode the station buildings need to look very different . I know what the real main line Oberaudorf station looks like and needed a scaled down version for the imaginary narrow gauge "Inntalbahn" . Then I found the Hornby Italian buildings on a second hand stall at a good price a few weeks ago and do you
Well managed to go to the European Model Ex in Brum and catch up with a few friends and have a good beer.
Time short to do anything else but someone once told me , just do a bit at a time its all progress.
So the two images are of a small water tower and level crossing kit built today . they have just been plonked onto the layout for the picture.
They are Auhagen plastic kits which are great value.
But a little bit of progress ...
To build an operational layout , you need the system !
This is the railway of the lower Inn Valley which is in Austia/Germany and most railways exist .
The main line goes from innsbruck to Munich/ Vienna
The narrow gauge goes from kierfelden to Wachel quarry , up the Wendelstein mountain and a steam tram to Chiemsee Lake. What i have done is join them all up and added an extension and a branch line .
Then traffic diagrams , track plans , track layouts and with the aid of google
For those with lots of skill and I see amazing scratch built building and think wow !!! Sadly I am not in this league or the league below . My world is glue everywhere and I have to stick with plastic and cardboard kits ... Not everyones cup of tea but its better to have a go and do something , eh ?
So here is the rather large "onion dome" church which has come together over the last week . For scale I put a train behind it !!! Now then in the real Oberaudorf on the edge of the village there
So after decades of armchair modelling and 18 months after the home layout baseboards were built a start has been made !!!
A start has been made on the small shelf branch line terminal . Track is down , isolation switches in place and its been test run. Backscene in place . But its a bit dark on the shelf as the shelf above has my OO diorama (one day that will work !!!) . So with the magic of the internet an under shelf mini PIR light arrived for above the shelf , see photos .
The layou
