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Neptune Road - Inglenook Adventure

rouse2037

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SHUNTING - TIDDLY ;) ?

 

I have read several ideas with regard to shunting on an inglenook. Clearly there is the option of randomly shunting wagons from one siding to another, perhaps moving the wagons to end up with them in the reverse order to the order they started in etc. Then there is the tiddly wink computer or the playing card/waybill idea as featured in Model Trains International etc

 

I decided to use the playing card option and 8 wagons.

 

I was lucky to get a mini sized pack of playing cards in an xmas cracker. Mini layout = mini cards.

 

I selected 8 cards, cut some plain white sticky labels to size and wrote the wagon type on each sticky and stuck 1 to each playing card.

After a shuffle, 5 cards are selected and that is the order that the consist must end up in, with 3 remaining wagons "wild" and getting in the way!

 

Each shunting session takes about 20 minutes to complete. Then the 8 cards are shuffled again and 5 new cards selected.

 

For an extra twist, one could insist that the consist must be formed in a particular siding..

 

Cheers

Roger

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Mikkel
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Great to see such a nice Inglenook layout. I know some people think they've gone out of fashion but I never tire of seeing or operating them.

 

The loft insulation foam is an interesting idea. Is it messy to work with/cut?

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rouse2037

Thanks Mikkel.

 

I'd been wanting to build one for a while and now that i have, it's kept me amused for hours. Dare I say it, but it's the best layout that i have built that has felt "right"!

 

The loft insulation foam is great stuff. It comes in a pinky orange colour. Really light in weight and indeed very easy to cut. I used a saw to cut it to the required width - i kept the length as it was. I have heard a comment that you should wear a mask as the dust it gives off is a bit nasty. I did the cutting outside anyway and used common sense! As for mess, it was just like cutting wood really and not bad at all. Certainly nowhere near as bad as polystyrene!!

 

The surface of it did need a light sanding in places to get it smooth but on areas covered with ground cover/ballast etc that wouldn't really matter. I laid track directly onto it and used pva to hold the track in place and then ballasted in the usual way with no problem at all.

 

Cheers

Roger

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marc smith

Having seen this layout, I can honestly say, I don't think they'll ever go out of fashion with me! Long live inglenooks!

Great modeling Roger :D

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