A pleasant few hours was spent at the cabin yesterday, in the company of some guests ( = friends) from the Merseyside club.
We are frequently in the cabin so anyone is welcome, by prior arrangement just in case we are out and about.
After the guys had left I snapped a couple of photos of the REX Fastline 66/3s (and a car train which was passing, again taken with the cheap snappy so no real depth of field but still give the ideas for some interesting possible shots.
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As some may have noticed from my status updates I've been a bit under the weather this week so had an easy time whilst up at the facility and snapped a few photos of some 66s
Note the DBS and the Bardon were undergoing running in without a decoder fitted so the lights are not correctly displayed at all times, I eventually switched off the tail lights when I remembered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqEx0gKRmo
and whilst doing this I was testing the Grand Cent
Some snappy shots of Widnes taken during testing of the layout.
This is a "test" blog, once I get a grip on them I will use this to summarise what I'm up to on Widnes.
Yes I know - BUFFER !!!!!
60021 shut down during a possession on Widnes.
Here's a 66/7 thats heading for 66723 ...
And an overview during testing.
Some videos are here ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjuDuuqMp4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cku26OZ6lA
http://www.y
This started out as Spawd Bone Lane on RMW3, now will be an occasional thoughts on working with prototype locations to make them suitable for modelling...
SPAWD BONE LANE
From the middle English ???spaldbone??™ ??“ shoulder bone ??“ a name suggested by the contours of the lane. Spawd Bone Lane was originally the southern boundary of the early field system and following the extension of the South Field became a headland lying within that field.
from http://www.knottingley.org/history/spe
The top lines are the passenger, this will be at a higher level, the track plan is similar to Shaw, it will be a single arriving and double departing (from left to right) with a reversing siding available for turn backs.
The bottom lines are the truncated remains of a once through line, freights will arrive from the left and the loco will run off and "run round" them, they then depart, this means that a freight will need to be only a few wagons long.
The juxaposition will be arranged dur
