Crazy video YEY !

"Duel" gauge? Are they having a fight after demanding satisfaction?

"Duel" gauge? Are they having a fight after demanding satisfaction?

I guess so. Damn grammar. Oh well, too late now. :-/

Also, on the last photo, and it may be an optical illusion, but the nose of the "V" seems very slightly skewed to the left. Narrow gauge stock may not have a problem running over it, but standard gauge might find a flange gets squeezed when rolling through!

Also, on the last photo, and it may be an optical illusion, but the nose of the "V" seems very slightly skewed to the left. Narrow gauge stock may not have a problem running over it, but standard gauge might find a flange gets squeezed when rolling through!

No you're right, it is a wee out as you described.

Things still 95% of the time run through ok though! Somehow.

If it wasn't such a rushed bodge and it was done with a template at a desk I'm sure it'd be a lot better. As Me and Adam rarely get to meet up though it was well and truly an opportunity to do something together as a challenge and with minimum time. We basically had a night and a bit and that was it but when we ran out of chairs I had to order some more from C&L and by that time sadly he went home so I had to finish it myself. Had I not pointlessly interlaced the sleepers I may have had the chairs at the time, oh well! Live and learn.

Was all fun though and it is working. Those 2 narrow gauge coaches you see can be buffer to buffer shunted through the crossing both ways with the Skarloey and they don't fall off so that's good too.

This is so rock and roll. I don't normally use the word "cool" about model railways, but that's what this is - the trackwork and video both. Mould-breaking.

Hehe, cheers.

Doing modelling with a friend is a VERY rare event for me. Always worth making a video of it and having a laugh at once.

This may sound pathetic but I like the vid too, is a great momento for Me and Adam as we don't see each other often due to geographic distance mainly and as for the 'P4-09' crossover or whatever you call it that was rather gung ho with limited time, but with a mate the motivation was up 10 fold.

Like the video, my only qualm is the smoking in the video. The interlaced sleepers are prototypical on many railway systems, particularly in Ireland. Keep the good work up, LADS!

Julie

PS why do all your locomotives have faces, is this a comment on your lifestyle?

Have a careful look at the photograph, the blue frog, from your diagram appears to be a casting! You could add a piece of plastic to prevent the wheel drop, at la Peco.

Julie

For the smoking blame Adam, I make no apologies for it as I'm very much a guy who doesn't like sanitizing things. Certainly not editing it out as this video was pretty much an ad lib documentation (memento) of two friends who hardly ever see each other having a banter.  In fact I did edit a lot out (a LOT) but something so trivial as smoking?   Naaaah, people smoke - not gunna hide it.  I'm not into presenting things a certain expected politically sanitized way so I'm done pandering.  With me you get it raw mostly!

Thanks for the tip about wheel drop, definitely wasn't a casting what we made though!   I still would have liked to have done things neater but the time constraints and building it in situ on C&L flexi track made things harder too.  I think if I bent a Set into the curve like you are usually supposed to it may have solved the issue but as I understand it they are usually more for giving point blades clearance, as this formation has no moving parts I didn't consider it.

The faces are because we, (me especially) like the Railway Series as well as real modelling.  My preference is for the pre-Grouping scene and that is where most of my focus currently is but I also try to model Wilbert Awdry things more accurately than is usually seen - it's what I have mainly been known for this past decade on various internet outlets, if you have a look in my RMweb gallery that hasn't been updated for eons you may see a Blue Sausage.   What did you mean by lifestyle wit faces?   Must be honest I'm unsure.

I know interlaced sleepers were used in reality but I'm unsure if this particular formation needed them, it was more an idea on a whim.  In hindsight it looks like I could have just extended the normal sleepers and we would have been alright, further more if we did it normally we wouldn't have ran out of chairs so we could have got more done together before Adam went back home, but never mind!  Live and learn I guess.

Thanks for the comment.