Eleanor Mentry

Hi The typeface that i've been using is Comet Sands MS. When this is displayed on some Android devices it is displayed as a scrolly style. Until you said i didn't realise that this caused you or others a problem in reading it!

The fact that there is a tube fitted over the point operation brass rod is very important, when it comes to minimising the wear during operation. You can add a micro switch when using a surface mount too, i'e done it for switching crossing polarity. Eleanor

Thanks for yours and other contributions. I've just visited Screwfix and bough a bottle of their no nonsence glue. @ that price I can afford it to go off after woring on a single project. Eleanor

Question I bought some Delux Materials super glue, several about 5 months ago. I've used it on a single project. When I went to use it again today, the whole bottle had gone off. Despite trying to clean the top with a small drill, no glue came out! In desperation I drilled a hole into the side, to a least get one application out, to no avail, not a single drop. Folk law says that if you keep your superglue in the fridge that it will keep for longer, is there any truth in this? How long will it keep? Eleanor

The most important thing when laying any track is to make sure that points are laid on a flat surface. If they are not then you'll get trouble, especially with very short wheelbase loco's. They will rock going over a point that is not completely flat, and as a result one set of wheels will not be in contact with the rails. When one wheels is on the plastic frog, then this will result in the loco stalling! You can install extra pickup's and this will improve running. But well layed track this should not be required. Eleanor

The above definitions of a micro layout, means that my Proposed Killarney is a micro layout. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/blog/2136/entry-19085-micro-n-gauge-layout-6/ Eleanor

In the last posting the sequence was not complete. This is now complete and as a result the fiddleyard allocation has now been amended. Sequence 1. Tamper comes from Trelee line after and overnight possession and is parked on the Down Main stub. 2. Light engine from Mallow Junction to retrieve the ballast wagons, from the overnight possession. This makes a virtue of a necessary movement on the scenic area, to run around the train, ready for move 3. 3. Retrieve ballast wagons from the Trelee line engineering possession. 4. Local service arrives from Cork, via Mallow Junction, it terminates at Killarney 2. 5. Up Intercity service arrives from Trelee and is propelled from the junction into platform 1. 6. The intercity departs towards Dublin Heuston via Mallow junction. 7. Local service returns to Cork via Mallow Junction. 8. Container train arrives from Dublin North Wall, via Phoenix Park tunnel and Mallow Junction. 9. 1st cut of 4 wagons shunted into the freight siding. 10. Train reformed with locomotive at Trelee end, propelled to the junction and the depart to Trelee. 11. Down Intercity train arrives from Dublin Heuston via Mallow Junction at platform 1. Upon departure it is propelled past the junction, the points changes, signal pulled off and then it departs for Trelee. 12. Up Intercity service arrives from Trelee and is propelled from the junction into platform 1. 13. The intercity departs towards Dublin Heuston via Mallow junction. 14. Container returns from Trelee and is propelled into Killarnerloop. Loco then shunts the Killarney cut onto the front of the train. 15. Local service arrives from Cork, via Mallow Junction, it terminates at Killarney 2. 16. Container trains departs for Dublin North Wall. 17. Ballast train arrives from Port Arlington for overnight possession of the Trelee line. Train is parked in the loop. 18. Down Intercity train arrives from Dublin Heuston via Mallow Junction at platform 1. Upon departure it is propelled past the junction, the points changes, signal pulled off and then it departs for Trelee. 19. Ballast train departs on Trelee line for ballast drop in connection the overnight possession of the Trelee line. 20. Tamper from Down Main stub, to Trelee line to tamp as part of the overnight possession. Fiddleyard sidings 1. Intercity train 2. Runaround loop & Tamper 3. Container train 4. Rugby Special 5. Local train 6. Ballast train 7. Spare Eleanore

The previous version of the layout plan. I've started to develop a sequence for Killarney. It immediately became obvious that there needs to be a short piece of track between the fiddleyard points and the junction points. When a Mallow to Trelee train has been propelled out of the platform, it stops with the locomotive peeking out from under the bridge. A decision was made to install stop blocks on the Down main, this happened on the proptotype, when it was taken out of use in March 2012. In exhibition mode the buffer stops will be cliped into position and the rail heads rust brown. In home operation it will be removed and the rail heads cleaned, with a track rubber. Sequence 1. Tamper comes from Trelee line after and overnight posession and is parked on the Down Main stub. 2. Local service arrives from Cork, via Mallow Junction, it terminates at Killarney 2. 3. Up Intercity service arrives from Trelee and is propelled from the junction into platform 1. 4. The intercity departs towards Dublin Heuston via Mallow junction. 5. Local service returns to Cork via Mallow Junction. 6. Container train arrives from Dublin North Wall, via Phoenix Park tunnel and Mallow Junction. 7. 1st cut of 4 wagons shunted into the freight siding. 8. Train reformed with locomotive at Trelee end, propelledto the junction amd the depart to Trelee. 9. Down Intercity train arrives from Dublin Heuston via Mallow Junction at platform 1. Upon departure it is propelled past the junction, the points changes, signal pulled off and then it departs for Trelee. 10. Up Intercity service arrives from Trelee and is propelled from the junction into platform 1. 11. The intercity departs towards Dublin Heuston via Mallow junction. 12. Container returns from Trelee and is propelled into Killarner loop. Loco then shunts the Killarney cut onto the front of the train. 13. Local service arrives from Cork, via Mallow Junction, it terminates at Killarney 2. 14. Container trains departs for Dublin North Wall. 15. Ballast train arrives from Port Arlington for overnight posession of the Trelee line. Train is parked in the loop. 16. Down Intercity train arrives from Dublin Heuston via Mallow Junction at platform 1. Upon departure it is propelled past the junction, the points changes, signal pulled off and then it departs for Trelee. Fiddleyard sidings 1. Intercity train 2. Runaround loop 3. Container train 4. Rugby Special 5. Local train 6. Ballast train 7. Tamper Eleanor

With curved points, in N Gauge, you require extra pickup's on loco's with coupled drivers. The settrack points will require slight modifications, to aid free flow of trains, through them. Eleanor

The length of the platform runaround was not long enough and therefore I've increased it. Removing the straight settrack points and replacing them with pre-curved straight streamline ones. This is acheived by removing the rails and then bending them to required curvature and the cuting the web and then relacing the rails. Below is the previous design. There is also the use of a settrack 3 way point and the resulting hidden sidings are now all through ones. Eleanor

True that Killarney has a big fiddleyard, when compaired with a more typical one like Horseblock Lane! But it is designed to allow a realistic operation of a main line location. Eleanor

I've now concidered another possibility, long thin boards. I havn't yet fully developed this into a complete design. The layout lengthis the same 1.34m, but the width is reduced to 1m. The layout boards should be as light weight as possible to allow it to be carried as hand luggage on a ferry and strong enough to withstand being carried as hold luggage too. Elanore

Taking the design further, if you have a board, that only has a very short piece of tack to locate an extended Peco Locolift cassette. They are mechanically joined by replacing the sides with plywood ones. The track is protected using rubber doorstops and thus the 2 hinged boards can be placed on a table without damaging the track on the fiddleyard board. Thus the length of the scenic section can be greatly expanded! Eleanor

The layout is designed to divided into two baseboard units with a fiddleyard board hinged under the matching scenic one. The front will be open frame type whilst the other will be convention design. When you look at the first photo, on the previous post, you will see that there is a bridge under the Trelee line, just after the junction. This was carries the railway over a stream. Further along the railway passes over a side street, before passing under a main road. The platform continues through the train shed and behond it too. Allowing the train engine to run around it's train. By placing the two scenic boards track to track allows the layout to be stored in a very small footprint and also protectes the scenery during tranist and storage. Eleanor

Yes if you look at the first photograph, you can see it and it's very close to the junction. When a Trelee train reverses and the pulls forward to Trelee to continue it's journey The front of the locomotive sticks out from under this bridge, whilst waiting at the junction signal. Eleanor