Hello.
I like fiddleyards. I like the form and function of them, the way they are designed and built with no scenery in mind, just to do a job and nothing else. The way they are (usually) as simple as possible, just enough to do the job they have to do and nothing more.
Well, thats my thoughts. I know that some fiddleyards are, in what I feel far too over complicated and why? As I mentioned above they are there to do a job, to hold trains ready for displaying on the scenic part of the layout.
Progress on Highclere is still moving at a snails pace. The fact that my mind has been elsewhere recently hasnt really helped the situation, but spurred on by the impending Abingdon Exhibition (4th March, White Hourse Tennis and Leisure Centre, Abingdon) where Highclere will make its next appearance (along with Witney Euston), I am determined to get the fiddle yard ready in time.
The solitary wagon has been pressed into service as a test vehicle for the trackwork on the rear cassette board. The aluminium angle in the foreground is used for the cassettes to slot into. I have added some Beryllium Copper contacts to each side to aid electrical contact which will be electrically fed directly from the bus bars underneath the layout (hence the eyelets but no wires yet!) I have had a bit of trouble getting all the track and cassette heights correct but with the help of some plasticard shims everything now slots together nicely.
EDIT:
Here is a plan of one end of the fiddleyard, the opposite end is identical (but just a mirror image)
Missy
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