Hi guys,

Not posted for a while as I spent the New year in hospital, the dreaded heart attack followed by multiple by pass surgery, a hard way to bring in the New Year!! On the mend now thankfully and getting back into the hobby both at club level and at home!

Heading off to my first show for a while on Sunday as the club is exhibiting our revised scenic 00 gauge layout for the first time this year. I think I have convinced my fellow members as to the value off scenic drop in sections, instead of the traditional way of board to board layouts.

Using this method. means that the scenery can be changed around over say a weekend show, without the track work/wiring altering. The guys have added a little more fiddle yard space, as we were a wee bit short on that and if I get the chance I will post a few photo's next week .

I have only seen photo's so far myself, but can't wait to see how the finished product looks

We are experimenting with sound cards at present and will incorporate these soon on our permanent layout and at a later date the exhibition one. We hope to automate the permanent layout this year with infrared sensors etc. This layout can then be operated with mimimum staff at our home exhibitions all going well!

We have made good use of Led's on the exhibition layout as we have a circus now incorporated and a building on fire scene, plus the garage welding mock up. We will be extending this use and I am building in sound cards to my own layout, I already have the church bells etc and station announcements on basic sound card format.

Anyway I will close now and update you after the show with hopefully a few photo's!!

Reemgee