Hi All,

Not a lot of progress today, but some testing was required, so it was time to get out some rolling stock, just to check if everything was going to fit.

This is a picture of the rolling stock (not all of it either) out to test the track:

The ZB historical rake is considerably longer than any of the loops in the station, so that will need to run in several trains, not as a single massive rake.

A number of years ago I tried the loco's and worked out that the big ZB diesels weren't going to go on the inner loop, now the short two axled coaches have been put in the same category. The have little steps on the corners and they can snag on the top of the point motors. However this is only in two places. You can see the ZB rake is currently testing the problem I've got, none of them derailed, but each one wobbles a bit as it goes through the point.

If for example you have a right hand point, followed immediately by a left then a coach going right brushes the motor of the left hand point... Mostly it works, but in the fiddle yard it could be a problem! One place it happens is in the main station, and another in the fiddle yard. I guess I'll have to keep it in mind when routing the trains.

Of course, only non-Roco stock suffers from this... The track is Roco HOe track...