Hi,

Well, I'm happy with the mechanics and electrics, final testing was completed tonight and everything works (sound deadening/wire-in-tube/frog juicer) Now I can concentrate on the scenery; I have a Scenecraft 'Great Central Goods Depot' which should set the scene nicely, abeit a little worn/unkempt. I think it looks like the one at Quorn and that one is not as low, being attached to a platform on the 'porch' side' and from an archive photo, having a small loading platform on the road vehicle side. (If I have that wrong, please, please, correct me) An ancient Peco road-over bridge recovered from a previous layout is being hacked to produce a bit of a scenic exit and will need integrating with some sort of raised roadway. A hardstanding will be needed as I want to suggest forklift operations.

 

 

Provision for a cassette or extension.

 

 

Frog juicer with red/black input top right, track power red/black middle right and frog feeds in green.

 

 

Bent Wire-in-Ballpoint pen ink reservoir tube.

 

A one minute video hosted on YouTube shows the track being tested 

 

With the Peco road-over bridge narrowed, skewed and positioned, I drafted the roadway and track down to the yard on mount board and cut it out. Fettling it to fit/suit the location was a very enjoyable - back to teenage modelling exercise. I made a little 40 degree repose 'gauge' to check embankment slopes and hacked some polystyrene packing to support the roadway.

 

 

 

I kept going and glued most of the elements in place. A tiny test board has been made with an offcut of track to test ground cover techniques.

 

 

Hi, Thanks for dropping-by.

Some progress as I'm trying to keep going. The bottom of the ramp has been cut into the yard surface to try and make that transition smooth. I've added polystyrene to create an embankment supporting the road. Trying to give an impression of slightly uneven ground with the formation and yard having been levelled. Some photos to illustrate my my thoughts.

 

 

 

 

I'm still moving the bothy around and thinking it might need a weighbridge.

 

 

 

 

When I fitted the bridge I used a Farish BR 12T van to test for clearance - unfortuately a my Farish locos are taller, so about an hour was spent lifting it slightly and realigning the track. All good now.

 

 

As per my strap line I have been working on some detail, as the inside of the bridge is visible to the curious I have cut up the unused wing walls to create interior walls and highlighted to myself that I need a solution to the interior faces of the road walls!

 

 

 

I have been distracted by collecting rolling stock! Now I'm back to scenery. The bridge needs finishing at the baseboard edge, the road needs widening, the road profile made fitting spear facing nigh impossible, the road went straight in to the background and I've been putting it off untill I had two things; a brainwave to carve foam board to correct the road contour and found more wing walls dead cheap on a second -hand stall (plus a Hornby milk tanker!).