long island jack

This maybe a silly question, but you have checked your wheel back to backs and the wheels are actually square to the axles! or what about adding check rails

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First outing for my new small layout this weekend at Barrow in Furness exhibition. Based on a small German harbour somewhere on the Rhine.

Oh!! your stock is going to be, as the old Yes song says ,"close to the edge"

Final jobs done ready for it's first outing at Furness show https://www.ukmodelshops.co.uk/event/y2023/25096-FurnessModelRailwayClub_Exhibition

loads of place to look at in both cities, Krakow we did the trip to Auschwitz and the salt mines, we pre booked with our travel agent. Gdansk we took the train to Hel and back and just walked around, all depends how long your stay will be.

Trams at Gdansk

Trams at Krakow

No freight at Krakow, freight line by pass the station, a few freight through Gdansk station, but once the sun move around killed most photos, there's a better location a few station south of Gdansk, where you get the freight of the docks, also both places have a large tram system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqs09J6bPPc We stayed in the Craft beer central hotel, right next to station, has it's own brewery and you can see the freight at night going through the station while having a beer, best of both worlds!! https://centralhotelgdansk.pl/

Next place was Gdansk, another beautiful place

over the last month i had two trips to Poland first was to Krakow, beautiful place, managed a couple of hours on the main station

you'll be lucky to get Spectrum spares, unless some one split a no runner for spares, on Ebay, there's this company states side https://ppw-aline.com/collections/locomotive-handrail-sets/products/h-112-Bachmann-spectrum-8-40c-handrail-set-applicable-roads-up-c-nw-cr-csx-ns

i always put a small drop (on the end of a tooth pick) of CA on the shaft end of the spring to keep it in place, the smallest amount works well, to much glues the couple up, guess how i know!!!!!

no need for stripes!!

it's going to be a lot easier for those who are trying to help you, if you do a track plan of the WHOLE layout, then you can be shown where to add feeders, insulated fishplates, a lot better than this toing and throwing with questions and answers, a picture tells a 1000 words!

might be an idea to show a track plan, then we/someone can show where you need insulated fishplates and power feeds

https://www.trains.com/mrr/news-reviews/reviews/staff-reviews/life-like-releases-limited-edition-ho-scale-budd-rail-diesel-car-rdc/#:~:text=Minimum,radius%3A 18″

69001 was top and tailing the weed killer train with 66744 Sunday gone at Workington

Does any one know any manufactures of German point/turnout levers, preferably ones with out lanterns, for industrial track.

Small update, had to re-do all the buildings, they had stood that long the plasticard i used had warped, so went back to tried and tested 2mm poster board, this has had brick paper added, roofs fitted and windows installed, also added first coat of 2mm static grass, the building which was at the front as a view block has been done away with, will now be an unused rundown concrete pad with out of use track. Just little steps forwards, but going in the right direction.

i dabble in that neck of the woods

Thanks, i've searched everywhere in UK, used my last packet of SD40 gears, got another GP to do!!!

what's your fix for cracked gears, trying to find replacement gears for a proto GP, with out any luck

last ones

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