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If your loco's and stock all have wheels to the same standard, that the flange depth, then there is a much simpler solution. Add some plastic strip to the top of the plastic between the nose and the wing rails of the points and then carefully file it down, until the wheels just travel on the flanges.
Incidentally this is done, on the full size railway when the use steel forgings type crossings, not usually called frogs, on sets of points.
Julie
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What type of couplings do you use on Ruston Quays?
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With a fine felt tip pen, brick coloured, colour in the white card edges, on the folds etc.?
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What about putting LED lighting inside the boxfiles?
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I like it!
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When Ruston Quays was built, I presume you used lead based solder?
I had forgotten how easy it was to get it to flow.
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I've would like to see @ one of the shows a micro layout village, type of event, so that people could contrast and compare different types of ways of building them!
I have always been more impressed with a well observed micro, that runs well than a mega layout, where little moves!
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I'm interested, how did Ruston Quays perform @ the Peterborough show?
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A photograph of Miss Daisy is shown below, she is my sisters dog. The photograph was taken onboard the South West Trains service we took back to my sister's. After visiting the Bristol Harbour Railway and M Shed Museum.
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Yesterday I visited Bristol, with a friend call Daisy. We walked around the floating dock and came upon the Bristol Museums 'M Shed' a working museum including part of the Bristol's port railway system. We saw a saddle tank in he livery of the Inland Waterways and Docks Board.
This type of working museum could be implemented, using the Ruston Quay format, particularly as the have shunting demonstrations several times a day. They also do train ride, an excuse for a single coach and a guards van shuttling to and fro to a location off scene. The only addition required would be a loco shed to store several small 0-6-0 and 0-4-0 locomotives.
The car in the above photograph is crossing the passenger line.
The upper level could represent the modern railway with electric or diesel multiple units. The track used by the demonstation shunting only had two bolts per fishplate, BUT the passenger line had the full four!
The above photograph shows the contrast between the preserved dockside and he modern financial district opposite.
The passenger accomodation on the dockside line, is not quite up to modern standards?
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Ruston Quays is in the 2nd track plan book after all.
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Like the point control system. Neat trick removing the board from the tray.
Good progress, I look forward to more developments!
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I assume that the one with the Farish set, will be a simple DC one. That means that the voltage will be increase or decreased as the control knob is turned. Whilst this is OK for a trainset user, you might not be happy with it, as it is difficult to get good low speed operation. It will require the track to be cleaned on a frequent basis.
Pulse type controllers are better, for slow running, but it is important to get one designed for N Gauge, as ones designed for larger scales can sometime burn out N gauge motors. You should be beware of using feedback controllers with N gauge loco's too, as they can damage your motors.
The best controllers, for N gauge are Pentrollers. These were designed by Stuart Hind, who at the time was the technical wiz at the Pendon Museum. A new version has recently come onto the market. These definitely will not damage N gauge motors.
DCC has the advantage of a constant voltage on the track and excellent slow running, even creping along is achievable. But you do have to be able to fit the decoder, without damaging the loco, or have a model shop who offer a fitting service, with warranty.
I hope these comments are useful.
Julie
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What type of control, are you going to use on your layout, DC or DCC?
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Micro layouts are more fun that massive ones, because they can be built on the kitchen table, completed in a manageable time frame and don't cost an arm and a leg.
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You really do have the ability to think outside the box. This of course is the driving force behind new ideas and techniques. Keep up the excellent work, because my modelling was in he doldrums. You have given me a kick up the backside. Thank you.
I've looked at your offsite blog, I am impressed by your work, you apply a wide variety of techniques. Many modellers are either in the card or plastic sheet / kit camps.
Have you considered making a complete scene, behind the track as a complete unit, complete with backscene and then that opens up the possibility of having several different scene, say a brewery, china clay dryer etc.
Have you concidered modifying the Peco Locolift for N gauge?
Julie
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The new trackplan supplement of course has a drawing of Ruston Quay on the front. I think BRM should do a micro layout issue.
The layout in a toolbox is another way, which is innovate of presenting a micro layout.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/111658-a-model-railway-in-a-toolbox/
Further developments in Holloway Goods, based on Cromford Goods, inspired by Ruston Quays, can be found at.
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Really useful boxes are good, but it depends on if you need to move the layout about or not. If you do and you only have access to public transport the toolbox ix a better idea. I looked at using a Really Useful box and then putting it in a holdall for transport. The problem was difficult to find a holdall that would take the box, without it becoming unwieldy.
Another possible problem is the sizes of the boxes follow a formula and you can often get a box the required length and width but it is too shallow. The toolbox seems in 2mm scale to be a very useful size.
The depth of toolbox also allows rolling stock, tools etc. to be carried in the same container. At the end of the day, it's a case of if the container meets your needs!
Cutting the handle off, or making you baseboard fit into the toolbox will give you more flexibility too! But you will need to have a means of removing it from the box.
Julie
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The fiddleyard will be constructed as a flat unit with a recess for the scenic module to fit into. I envisiage the two track boards will fold inwards to protect them whilst in tranist. Add a handle to carry and they can be moved by bus, train or ferry.
The module size, using a toolbox format will be slightly longer than shown in the design, dated 24th June, in his blog.
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You might want to look at my entries on
I am planning a project which is based around a Ruston Quays theme, but stored and transported in a toolbox. This is because I need to be able to transport it and I don't have a car, so it needs to be able to be carried as hand luggage, on trains, busses and ferries.
Julie
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The diagram below shows how the layout fits ino the toolbox.
The layout in a toolbox thread can be accessed by using the link below.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/111658-a-model-railway-in-a-toolbox/
Julie
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Description Below:-Another layout design of the theme of a canalside yard and a passenger shuttle, but this time based on Cromford Goods, as recently examined in Model Rail.
The model is designed to be N gauge and the total layout size is 880mm by 450mm. The scenic section is designed to fit into a 22 litre Really Useful plastic box for transport, thus it's size of 360mm by 200mm.
The design was carried out using Anyrail, using settrack components. If built using the settrack points and flexible track, the track will look more realistic as the track spacing can be made correct and slight curves can be introduced, making the track flow.
It is necessary to introduce a slight down gradient on the DMU shuttle track to give sufficient run to hide it at the RH end of the run. I envisage that the clearance is the minimum to allow the unit to pass under the fiddleyard track and that in the event of derailment the unit would be pulled clear of the over track, before it being re-railed. I think that the shuttle track should be slightly below the level of the canal, to allow the trains to be seen from normal viewing position. At the prototype location the track is about 16' below the canal level, behind a stone wall.
Julie
Based on the above design and using the idea from Hornby Magazine, Readers Projects, Bishopsdale in my opinion would produce an interesting project in N or 2mm finescale which could me made to fit into a toolbox.
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/111658-a-model-railway-in-a-toolbox/
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I've seen layouts where barges have moved, but I think they have made the mistake of having too much movement. This has often been too regular! A little occasional movement, I think is much more effective, both because it is unexpected by the viewer and more realistic too.
Julie
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Good idea, I've never though of it as a possibility!
Julie
BRM Feb 2018
in BRM Magazine
Posted · Edited by Steam_Julie
Why no sound, when I played the disk initially, but when I went back to it, there was, on the Pendon Feature? on the March DVD. Sound works on the other material.