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Wish you all the best in your new life.

A wonderful country and people with the west coast being particularly stunning. Good to see your pics.

Great Journey Eh?  Bet you miss the snow now that Christmas is here.

1 hour ago, Theakerr said:

Great Journey Eh?  Bet you miss the snow now that Christmas is here.

 

Miss it? I'm still up to my knees in it. I'm actually 4 degrees further north than I was in London ON, but the snow amount here is about the same.

 

Great pics and likewise best of luck in the new lifestyle.

 

Look forward to see something based around China clay emerging inside that garage ;)

Thanks Pete, I do hope so. I've been trying to start a layout for, oh... 10 years? It's been so long that I've forgotten what it's like to even run a train! But I'm getting closer and closer to a CAD that I'm happy with, so hopefully it won't be much longer.

The nice thing about waiting is everything has advanced a lot in that time. I've got much more historical clay industry information now than I did then, and there's been a lot of model releases. We're also a lot further ahead in terms of DCC, especially in the sound department. The Tang Band speakers are absolutely incredible - these are the speakers that Hattons have chosen for their 66, and the bass you get on them makes a huge difference to the realism. I still remember when sound first came out, it sounded like it was being played through the little speakers you'd get in novelty greetings cards, and it was so bad it was almost comical. They aren't so much to sniff at now though! The Tang Band speakers don't fit too well in HO scale locos, with the exception of "cowl bodies" like F units, but they fit just fine in most 4mm scale UK prototypes. This combined with the great work Legomanbiffo has been doing with ESU Loksound makes this a great time to build a layout.

Even better though, is that thanks to the EM Gauge Society, we now have EM gauge ready to lay bullhead track. It looks so good that I'm going to feel bad about burying so much of it in concrete! At any rate, not having to build trackwork is a massive bonus, as it frees up a lot of time that would've otherwise been sucked into an extremely mundane task.

 

Edited December 26, 2019 by Stoker

If you get the opportunity to do the line that runs past you to North Vancouver do take it; it is amazing.  The passenger trains stopped a while back but if you ship all your employer's product by rail, get chatting?

 

To be fair, the other lines in BC are pretty amazing too!!

 

 

Congratulations on the new house, job .. and life! oh and Happy Christmas too!