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St Ouen JNWR - Running Around a Passenger Train

Lisa

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My micro layout has to fit in a footprint of 230mm by 150mm, i.e. inside a container that came filled with Raspberry Ripple Ice-cream. I want the operation, despite the small size to be prototypical. On Jersey railway the engines always had their chimneys facing west. Because of the small layout footprint the fiddleyard has to be single ended.

 

Below is a picture of the track layout and building on the main board.

 

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The video, link shown below shows the sequence required to keep not turn the coaches around and keep the locomotive facing the correct direction.

 

 

The members of the local club have christened my layout ‘The Raspberry Ripple’. There has is another 2FS micro layout called ‘The Pizza’, obviously there seems to be a propensity to name 2FS layout after food items!

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Mikkel
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Hi Lisa. What an excellent video, must have taken some work to do it.

 

Looks like the fiddle yard work will be an interesting exercise in itself, which is an opportunity that is sometimes overlooked on micros, I think. Many thanks for sharing this, quite inspirational.

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Lisa

I work in the animation field, so the production of the film was fairly straight forward. Deciding the steps in the sequence was a much more tricky problem.

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McRuss
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Hello Lisa,

 

may I suggest that you couple the short and long cassette together, so that the short one

is next to main track.

So when you push the train back the wagons will come to a rest on the long cassette and the

engine on the short one, next you uncouple the two cassettes and move the long one towards the

track and the short one right from the long one, and couple them both together, now you couple

the engine on the train and push the wagons back to the platform.

 

Markus

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Lisa

Hi Markus

 

I can see where you are comming from, but I can't see how I can use it, within the constraints I am working with. I'll keep what you said in mind, thanks for your comment.

 

Lisa

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