rolling rolling rolling (stock)...
Good morning,
As promised, another update on the development of the cassettes and rolling stock to grace it.
Firstly, the cassettes...
For the first incarnation of Kyle, the cassettes were fashioned from easitrac and card and used sleaved brass rods beneath as a way of power and connection. In that respect they performed fine at the one day exhibition but I was looking to try something different this time from before...pic below...
Kyle Mark I cassettes...
Following Chris Miner's suggestion in my last post, I have decided to build cassettes using brass strips. These will then clip together using brass sleeves as before, but this time they will be on the top surface than beneath. I also wanted to try and have a small 'feeder' section as sometimes (IMO) its a shame to see a piece of ballasted track adjacent to a huge piece of aluminum etc and the scenic break at PWIAB is pretty minimal. This feeder piece will be about 100mm in length and most likely will be a permanent fitting of the fiddleyards, on both sides. The cassettes themselves will be 2 x 250mm brass sections (clipped together) with one end of half of them having a 100mm extension piece permanently attached (stay with me on this) giving an overall cassette length of 600mm, enabling some decent length trains.
To better explain, a did a mock up of them in card and boy was it fun pushing some rolling stock up and down them
Here is the two number 250mm brass sections with the 'feeder' 100mm section in orange to highlight it...
Joined together gives this...overall is a 600mm cassette with 100mm attachment and this will attach to the 100mm feeder strip...
For the sidings area at the front a special double cassette will need to be fabricated as its impossible to squeeze two cassettes adjacent and when a train is abridging the joins it needs two lines to enable run-a-round...a snag found on Kyle when using the Fiddleyards as part of the run-a-round process unless tracks are well spaced. I have ordered 10mm strips from Eileen's and also some 5mm strips for the insides.
The double cassette and uses 5mm brass strips for the inner rails...
And now the rolling stock. First, a big thanks again to Chris (Eastwestdivide) for supplying yet more photos and also describing typical train formations from the time. Random searches on the web are providing the odd pic of trains from the era too...and I do enjoy the research process. I have been gradually building up a selection of rolling stock over the year and with impending releases from Farish and Dapol I hope to add to that prior to next May and the exhibition...251 days away...
Here are a selection of typical trains that will be seen on the layout and some notes to accompany them...
Beginning with the star of the show...well, the whole reason for building the layout...the Bachfar 4 CEP...in blue grey...
A 33 will be converted to a 33/1 using the TPM replacement ends I now have...this will run on MK I's...
A 47 will run on the ARC PGA's...and hopefully a Dapol class 56 in blue once it is released...
A 73 on the vans...New BG's will be purchased from Bachfar and hopefully the new CCT's will be available...
A class 33/0 on VDA's...I have TPM kits of these awaiting to build so these are just a placeholder at present...
An 09 will be resident shunter for the yard (my new Bachfar 08 is with Bob Russell at present...after I swapped the wheels for 2FS ones, I couldn't reassemble it)...
A 33 on oil tanks - These are 25 years old (excuse the weathering) so will be replaced with Bachfar TTA's and 100T tankers...
That's all for now...any more purchases will be added as and when including a rake of Sealion/Seacows...
EDIT: I knew I shouldn't have hurried the upload whilst my wife was telling me we were late for a lunch appointment...I forgot to upload this...which I think makes an interesting train...
Large logo 73 on VSOE pullmans...well, as good as you can do with the Bachfar ones...
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