Millport Victoria, Work so far
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Right, as part of the plan to enable Millport to be exhibited again, the group has decided to carry out some extra work besides the re-wire which was already planned.
First item we tackled was the layout storage covers/boxing, these protect the layout during storage and transit to shows and clearly had seen better days. Fortunately we have quite a few members who are quite handy at carpentry unlike myself. Whilst these new covers were being made, new backscene boards were also fitted to help freshen things up.
Next on the agenda was the alignment of the baseboard joints, to help improve things we fitted EM society pattern makers dowels to keep the alignment along with case clips to hold the boards together.
During its final years on the exhibition circuit, the fiddle yard on Millport was at a slight angle to the rest of the layout. The group decided that the fiddle yard may be better if it was in line with the rest of the layout. So the board which attaches to the fiddle yard has now been modified.
Finally we come to the turntable, most people who tried to turn a loco on Normans turntable generally need a bit of practice to get the hang of it i.e. lining the rails up. Norman could turn a loco and line it up first time of course! There was no alignment mechanism etc, you had to do it by eye.
A Heljan turntable has been purchased and fitted, this has required all the shed area to be re-worked, the Heljan turntabel is approximatley 10-15mm bigger than the previous set up. However because the shed area on Millport is quite compact, the shed has had to go and there are now 3 stabling roads in its place. The water tower and coaling stage are still present.
Well that is a brief summary of the work that has been undertaken over the past 6 months. I will take some pictures tonight and hopefully post them tomorrow as this might help with some of the description above.
Cheers
Simon
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