Crawley Yard - Weekend Jobs
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This weekend managed to get a lot of little bits done over the layout and working towards the main buildings which are the most complicated to do. I've done some more ballasting which can be seen on these pictures. I used a mixture of ballast and finished off with a blast on the puffer bottle to this area as the yard doesn't appear to be weed treated.
One of the decisions I've had to make is where to change the ballast colouring between the Yard and the Main Line, The Main Line is brown and is this colour pretty much all the way to London from here. The Main line ballast is very messy though. None of the smooth lines well laid stuff here. The machines seem to create a shoulder and where its removed and replaced the colouring can be all over the place. Also where repairs have been done the colouring can be very random. In the picture below you can see how I've blended the colours. Also you can see the trunking and the lineside boxes. Will paint these once I get on with the weathering. May add more trunking on the south boards, in places there are up to 3 parallel runs. I've used some of the new Ratio trunking as well as some wall capping stones from a Metcalfe kit, both seem to look ok.
One of the jobs which you cant see in the pictures was some remedial work to the Fiddle Yard. There are 5 roads serviced from 2 " 3 Way Peco Points and a standard point. The track was laid across the board joins and then soldered to screw heads
Somehow these seem to have managed to get slightly out of alignment so the soldering Iron has been out and I've tweaked them all again so I could do some test running. All 6 roads are now operational so I spent some more time today on completing some loads for the wagon loads as well as moving on with the landscaping for the aggregate unloading area. I used a selection of ballasts, sand, dust and limestones both for the loads and for the aggregate area.
Good Weekend had. Realised I had made a mistake in the setup of Railmaster so have that resolved now. All of the points are working even after ballasting. The routes through the fiddleyards are all working. The routes allow the end to end road through the fiddleyard to be set with one operation.
So with all that done, I've loaded up the stock and managed to get some trains running in time to post this blog.
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