They say that necessity is the mother of invention and so it was with my stock boxes. As I mentioned earlier, a friend who has a large layout in his garage reintroduced me to model railways and it wasn't long before I was buying stock of my own to take with me. As that collection got bigger it became more of a pain taking them out of their boxes and packing them away again so something more efficient was in order.
My first stock box is based around a plastic organiser box that I bought from
I'll bet that those of you following the story so far are all thinking the same thing - what happened to the shunting plank?
Was I right? Oh well, I'll tell you anyway
After spending about a year propped up in the corner of the dining room gathering dust, I decided that I really should finish the wiring. Also, as we'd decided to go DCC on my friends' layout and all my locos had been converted, it made sense to wire it with that it mind so I pottered about buying some bits and pieces
This is where I've got to with my proposed track plan for Rodents' Vale - prepared in Xtracad:
Not fully formed as yet, but gives the general idea. The main features are a folded figure of eight twin track main line, a substantial terminus station on the upper level (designed around accepting an HST 2+5 set), a six or seven road traverser fiddle yard below and 'another' yard, yet to be defined. I'm thinking maybe an industry like a paper mill, due to the variety of traffic that it could
Hello all,
The new look forum, and the fact that I'm off work sick and have time on my hands, has inspired me to jump in with one of these new fangled blogs. I guess time will tell if these things work or not...
Anyway, a bit of history first. I'm fairly new to the hobby, having last owned a train set when I was at school and my Hornby HST set was my prized possession (was that really 30 years ago?). A couple of years ago I was reintroduced by a friend of mine who has a large garage size
