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June 8, 2017

Afternoon vjoneslong,, pure brilliant idea using styrene rod be far better than trying t shape thin dowel , may break and doesn't matter of the thickness size either, I was thinking of cutting strips of balsa wood and shaping the pedestal with a round file, but this idea is far better, many thanks.

Very hard trying o find HO scale pedestal fencing except on bridges, I was hoping to find just the top of the bridge side, looks like I am going to be busy for some time, once the first fancy top railing set of 9 pedestals is done the rest be easy, a rainy day project,, I also hope to get back down to Sydney to take lots more pics as there all different sizes on top of the building, I been looking for that bridge kit for yonks, pretty dear kit just for the railing .thanks again

Know what you mean, I have problem with dust can set my asthma off and the same as you and a weather change and humid weather, when we moved to Ipswich from Brisbane I had very bad asthma settled down for quite a few years, this is the first winter I have had trouble with and today driving home from buying a new Cannon winter I had a bad asthma attack, couldn't even ring my wife, found out you can contact 000 and the Ambo's can track the phone even with the phone locked.

I was at the time more concerned in not panicking, and pull off to the side of the road had the hazed lights on and luckily I had Ventolin on hand, took over half an hour to settle down before I could drive off again, next it happens I do that, don't want to go through that again in a hurry not a nice thing, on antibiotics now. had some on hand.

Itching to get stuck into the finishing the bus wiring on the station module, see how I am on Saturday rain coming in , it is pretty dry with moisture around may help.

Tony from down under

June 7, 2017

Hi vjoneslong, many thanks, I like to look ahead on each module how it will fit from the plan and of course working out the width of the module why I like doing mock-up modules for, I bought a full sheet of ply last week to cut the sides on the second approach module and the first approach module, was hopping to get the carptenters gang out the weekend, doesn't look like it still getting over my asthma bad night last night, want to finish off doing the bus wiring on the first station module.

I have also got to get stuck into building the cross cutting jig for the circular saw will need it, pics to follow.

Has any one got any ideas on modelling pedestal fencing in HO scale, I am trying to make a master for moulding, Sydney Central station building has a lot of the pedestal fencing, to scale the pedestal is 11mm by 2.5mm, 28mm in length, 9 pedestals the width of the window. I may get apiece of 5mm dower and turn the electric drill into a mini wood lathe, too small to turn on my big lathe, take too long, moulding is the quicker way to go.

The way to go be 3/D printing , I don't own one be nice,, will have to twist my brother a little in law he has one and doesn't use it.be easier way to go print out a master, I have also seen 3?d paper printing another option or brass edging more costly way.

Tony from cold down under.

June 7, 2017

Morning vjoneslong, I have done the recycle thing as well, from previous layout I used the 3ft by 7ft ply tops from for most of the curved sections and smaller ones for the new station modules and sides stage one of my station complex, have being buying off cut ply when I can or seconds in full sheet, I like the way you built the bedding for the track, you must have a good size block, we are on quarter of an acre, in the new estates the house blocks are half the size.

Good to hear your better half likes to run a train, be nice if I could convince my with o have a go to.

Always lots to do on any layout, I never completes any of my previous layouts I wise I discovered HO/00 scale garden railway a lot earlier, taking so long on my own, worth the effort.in the end, I surprise you couldn't use the narro16mm locos and rolling stock on the smaller HO scale 16mm track to do with the lager wheel flanges, nice to have live steam as well, do you have to have some sort a ticket to have live steam..

I have an old Hornby O gauge clock work tank loco I want to bring back to life again, new brass track and cheating by powering the coach I plan to presently join onto the loco, leaving the clock working in place, loco is 58 years old and still runs wel, will have second carriage as well.

I am not well asthma is playing up blame winter for that, 2 degrees over night ouch, no Jack Frost paying us visit yet.

Keep the good work up looking forward to see more progress pics, do you have any diesel locos to.

Tony from down under.

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June 6, 2017

Morning vjoneslong, bingo finely found your post and the video you mentioned, pure awesome , the music fitted the beginning of the video nicely indeed, how when did you start construction of the track base a lot of house bricks and the larger bricks are they the soft bricks you nail in a nail easy , we have them over here but quite dear, good feeling to see the train in around the layout with no problems with all that back braking work paying well done.

you have good size back yard to play with and fairly,, going by the track stacked up you still have a lot of work ahead and will see lot more progress pics, does your partner like helping out, mine doesn't.

I will save your thread so I can check on it to see your further progress, looking forward to seeing more video clips and pics, well done.

Tony from down under

June 1, 2017

Hi vjoneslong, thanks was realhappy when the set arrived and I finely had it in my hands, long time coming, as it was I bought the Mehano Thalys TGV set in two stages from the bloke in northern Italy , he sold the sets to what you wanted, first set was 6 car set and both locos are powered another 4 cars later to make up a ten car train and now I have the missing bar car, going to my train club on the DCC running Saturday to run the full set be stunning indeed will do a video clip going to look awesome on my layout with those very large curves.

Yes I have, on my last module layout the spiral was on a 6foot radius curve and steep at one end,, I had to improve that on the new layout with a bigger spiral last gradient was 3 and a half percent, the new spiral is like the Williams loop on the Feather rive line in the US.

I couldn't buy an off cut piece of ply yesterday so now I have to buy a full 12mm sheet of pull, sadly don't have a tow bar on the car to take the full sheet home, going back to the timber mob today with my battery saw and saw stools to make two cuts one cutting the length to 6foot and second cutting the ply width to fit in the car, with the back seat down can fit a piece of ply 30inches wide by 7foot long.

Yesterday I set up the last two station modules and the two approach modules for the front station modules so I can work out the width of the approach module for both station modules, I like to plan ahead when building modules, money wise as well, that module be 12 inches wide by 6foot long, the other end of that model in the car port be for the access into the refuelling and sand tower racks and service facility, plus work shop, on the front side of the module be access to the turn table and reverse loop.

The first pic I set up the two approach modules for platforms 1,2,3 and 4,, second pic I decided to straighten the two up much better , third pic I tried the cross over to see with the angle of the two modules different , well I still couldn't straighten the track coming off the cross over into platform two still had to have the curve, slightly better to the first mock-up plan, on the second last post.

All up with both modules together there is 11 tracks coming off the terminus track onto the main line, lots of points and crossovers, I may have to scratch build some to save money for the cross overs, luckily I am doing the station complex in two stages and all that track as well on top of timber for the platforms, be cutting strips of wood for the frame work on the platforms and gluing 3mm MBF board of the platform top, in front of the two station modules be another 12inches wide for the suburban two platforms and passing loop.

Busy weekend planning doing the bus wiring on the front two modules.

Vjoneslong I am having trouble finding your thread will have another go.

Yeah it is cold here again this morning 2 degrees over night to 22 degrees during the day, wa cold yesterday, you feel the summer over there in the UK from having such a cold winter, Jack frost hasn't paid us a visit as yet can kill the grass over night .

Tony from down under keep cool we keep warm.

May 31, 2017

Evening vjoneslong,that jig isn't mine, I be doing mine the same way even going one more step in at one end bolt it so I can cut angles, pretty good idea mazing what is on you tube to do with wood working,, all you need to do is move one side so you can turn the circular saw around to rip cut sheets of ply, I try to buy decent size off cut 12mm ply when needed, what I am doing today, so once I finish off the bus wiring I can move onto the car port end cut the sides for the second approach module.

The car port concrete floor is quite steep, but after running off the third approach module the curves be level to the spiral and where the track has to gain 6 inches onto the bridge, haven't got the length to have a ramp like at the other end, my grades are 2 percent grades quarter inch a foot, on 24foot in length radius curve and spiral diameter is 7feet, locos be able to handle that grade, my clubs spiral is a meter across and 2 percent as well they say.

I have thought of building my own points , did many years back build a N scale point it worked well but at the time didn't know how to wire it, so I may have a go at building HO scale doing the same method as you have done, yes you can get drawing of points and even jigs of any type of point and cross over, be challenge to build a double slip cross over, some mobs you can buy strips of that PBV brass plated board to the size of sleepers, I use that stuff for the track joins on modules.

Have a busy weekend coming up want to complete the bus wiring on the two front corner modules, I am going to paint the two large 12foot curved track decking for the other end, make the brackets to join them up to nail down track ready to run the first test loco once the spiral is done as well, the back of the layout be a breeze.

Winter is here and we had 1 degree Jack Frost hasn't paid us a visit, heater going and peaking 22 degrees today, at the moment it is 6 degrees out side, 23 inside, where a work shop come in, not to be, if I could get the modules into the spare room which is my hobby be good just to do the bus wiring soldering. and control panel wiring .

Will see you on your thread.

Nearly forgot I bought off a friend from Germany a Mehano Thaly's add-on set that has the bar car in it, when he said he sell the set to me I had to have it did well costing in Aussie dollar $150 posted, arrived Monday afternoon now I have the complete Thaly's TGV 10 car set and three extra cars, both locos are powered and have DCC on board, so I can have a train to run on DCC days at my club, have a second loco with DCC on board as well.

Tony from down under.

May 30, 2017

Here is a couple of pics of the track plan point mock-up to the two approach modules for stage two of the station module complex, I like to plan ahead letting me know how many points I need to buy have to start saving upwill need 7 points some be expresspoints one wye and on single sli cross over, I leanrly got the track angles rihgt but it is to do whey the angle of the Peco cross over just a slight beng, once nailed down hopefukly wont notice it much.

I forgot to put in two points on the inside track heading to the island platform, wondering what the pegs represent the platforms, I have to figure out how the best way to build the platforms, thinking of pine frames with MDF top, the last layout I made the platform out of 12mm and 3mm rubber to get the height making the module was too heavy to pick up.

My next job be concentrating on the bus wiring on the front corner and first station module, after that work on the curved ramp up to the bridge so I can run a test loco into the station., can't wait to see a loco run again. on the layout even only half of it.

Tony from down under.

May 27, 2017

It is amazing just swapping a couple of modules around and moifing it make a big difference to the design of the layout,and changing the approach to platforms 1 to 4 on the second stagle of the station complex, I didn't get a chance to set up the spiral where it will be, till next week after the car goes into the work shop to be repaired, no idea how long, will make the most of it after next Wednesday, will have a hire car to get around in and buy an off cut piece of ply to cut and screw n the sides of the module.

The next 6ft ply deck will modified for the first 6ft double track approach bridge deck connect to it , I just tried out mock-up ply to see how it will work out, it is going to be pure awesome seeing the trains fly through the interchange and Indian Pacific and other passenger trains approaching platforms 1 to 4, lots of shunting there as well, have to think ahead, after the second straight deck is a 3ft 7ft curve and onto a 12ft radius curve and onto the spiral. Have marked the 18inch height where the back corner module be sitting and after that be the bridge, I be only working on the lower rail deck first to get the train up and running, then start on the bridge, will have to have a couple of support piers on the main span till then.

This week I be concentrating on the bus wiring for the two front modules, hopefully run a test loco through the points setting up all the station modules, lucky I didn't finish the other spiral using the same decking, be a bit like Tehachapi loop in America,, a good train spotters spot on the layout, a train is coming down the spiral and another passes it coming off the single track can't wait for the big moment.

With the changing of the spiral to the car port I can change the reverse to go there as well, making the use of turning trains around straight away instead of having to wait for stage three, there is enough room in the car port front corner for a turn table to turn around steam locos and refuelling and sand tower racks plus a work shop, on the other side, refuelling and sand tower racks go in first, that be a well detailed area.

Tony from down under..

May 25, 2017

Evening vjoneslong, Yeah I have always wanted to build this bridge got the idea from an old friend that modelled Swiss narrow gauge he had a concrete arch bridge simular in design, I have seen even in 00 scale garden railway a bloke had a bridge across a pond even better in a larger scale.

I got the idea from you tube a bloke used steel angle line he had a bigger electric circular saw, my angle line is only 1.5mm thick be screwing two together to make it stronger and stop it from saging in the middle , only lose 1.5mm cut, others use 19mm pine for there cross cutting jig , the best way to have square cut every time, I want to turn the saw around to cut lengths of ply.

I will check out your progress on your post, some HO scale modellers scratch build there own sleepers as well a lot of work as you say, bigger scales be easier to work with, I have thought of building my own points especially cross overs as they don't have the correct angles, is what I am having problems with, the single and double slip cross overs be a challenge to scratch build.

You would feel the summer heat more than us, your 30 degrees be like our 40 degrees has it got hotter that 30 before in the UK, we are having 23 degrees here today 9 degrees over night winter will drop pretty quick, hope I don't see jack Frost this winter can kill the grass over night.

The track work on the two corner and first station is complete with the fish plates soldered on the module track joins, I use the PVC brass plated circuit board and cut a gruve in the brass works well.

Going to be pure fun when shunting the two NR class locos around the Indian Pacific coaches and shunting the two auto carriers to the loading dock track, and back in readiness for her journey back to Sydney from East Perth terminal WA, 3 day journey be very fast clock indeed, could just run the Indian pacific all day having a container train waiting at a passing loop, even more time when I complete stage 3.. Looking at pic 3 with the single slip cross over, I tried a coach and she went through the slip with ease, and not too much swing as you would see on the real thing, I don't like that try to use as longer points and cross overs as possible.

The darker board on the first station module can now lift out with ease, I am improving the bus wiring in underneath the module and making a small slip panel for the two 4way speaker plugs making it easier to hook up.

Pic 5 is the fish plates, I had to make a wire heavy wire clip to keep the two modules together as when I tighten up the bolts there is a gap, did use those wire ties this is better and doesn't look out of place.

The last two pics is how I will build my cross cutting jig, just like a mini radial saw arm, getting the most out of a circular saw saving money on a drop saw, could modify the jig to cut angles as well look into that, there are so many woodworking ideas on you tube some blokes going to a lot of trouble parks costing a lot and time .

Like to know what you mean about the great globe in the sky, is it where you are.

Marking out the height of the bridge today on the back of the house, works out 5 bricks high between the two bricks can run a line to the walk way railing at the side of the house and same car port end, height is 18 inches, where the spiral was to be, I can get away with a curved 24foot ramp got the room, climbing 6 inches in height. and the spiral in the car port .working out much better..

Tony from down under

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May 23, 2017

Evening vjoneslong,, not all of the layout is under cover, the large 12foot curve is out in the garden and single track 7foot curve running off the spiral and the two approach modules to the station moues are out in the open and the front suburban platform track is and the third stage be out at the side of the house, I am planning a large single track modelling a concrete arch bridge on that line complete with river and water fall, always wanted t model a water fall, be a challenge.

Have designed the layout so I can stuff on first scene be the diesel loco service faculty complete with refuelling and sand tower racks plus lighting , work shop as well, before that a turn table got a Helljan one 14inch fingers crossed fit my Bachman, DD40AX's hopping to motorise it as well, to also turn my 3801 NSW steamy and Flying Scott 4472, the 1988 tour was a success, my 3801 doesn't have a front coupler will have to fit one.

Aldi may have those small cameras, depends on the quality, I like the idea of a remote control, have to be Wi-Fi as well, that was a good video clip thanks, that be a summer project building the loco to fit the camera, thinking of those track measurement locos.

I have connected the track passing loop yesterday on the two modules, all I had time for do some more today, got a hearing appointment in the afternoon stuffing it up slightly, going to Bunning afterwards to buy some aluminium angle line for a cross cutting jig for my circular saw , be like a mini radial saw arm, making it so I can turn the saw around to rip sheets of ply, pics to follow, looking for the angle to be as thin as possible my saw only has a 45mm cut batter saw Ryobi may later buy a bigger saw electric .

How is your layout coming along is it finished.

I am finding more pics of the RORO ship I be modelling, I be sending a bloke that did a PDF drawing of the side of the ship to see if he has more drawing, not sure if I be able to get anything out of Finn lines or the builders of the ship with all this terrorist attacks going on, was very saddened to here about the latest one in England.

The last pic is the bridge I be modelling it is on the Union Pacific Feather Rive line called the North Fork bridge, was owned by Western Pacific they built the bridge when they had to reline the track because of a dam further down the river, 1962, I was going to model a double deck bridge over the dam but wanted a more modern bridge, in between all the projects be running trains on the weekend one weekend a month depends if I get the urge for other weekend running and how quick I can set the layout up be the key.

This weekend be setting up the spiral where it be going in the car port, pics to follow.

Tony from foggy down undergoing to be a nice Autumn day 28 degrees here.

Tony from down under.

May 22, 2017

Evening vjoneslong, many thanks being a long road to here still lots more ahead, like most of us we do the lot our self with out any help I have to get a move on now got a month to getting half the layout up and running, the shifting of the spiral where it is going be easier to built and set up, still using the same curved decking form the first spiral, this will open up to a branch line to run between the car port and fence to the garden in front of the carport or a staging yard.

It doesn't take long to set up the station modules, all my bolts have wing nuts, all the modules and curved section be number coded and the pergola floor is marked as well same with the spiral and the sections in the garden will have steel pipe posts permanently in place.in the garden, will have to wait and see once the layout is finished., Be leaving the modules in under cover set up and covering the layout outside and pull up the sections in the car port, having a three day running session, be good if a friend comes over swell joining in the fun.

I am hopping to buy one of those car dash stile video cameras and building a special loco for that task, over here we a electrical spare parts shop called Jar-car the sell those cameras,the one I have in mind has a remote control around $150 mark.

Tony from down under.

May 21, 2017

The hearvy yarn is done on the rebuild of the front corner spiral module, there has being some big changes the front corner spiral module is now he front corner module, thespiral has beingshifted to the car port end of the layout to make it easier togain th extra 6 inches in height for under the bridge clearence to thewater line, giving the extra height for the RORO ship, this way I now can built her to 87 scale an no need trying to cut back height of the ship to the water line. She will be in height from water line to the top of the main mask 386mm, 298mm beam and 2.1metres long.

I have set up the front corner and first station module ready to start laying the track down and soldering the track to the computer circuit brass plated board work well and resolder the bus wiring, replacing the spiral be a 12foot radius curve gaining height to 6 inches on a 24foot ramp, works out 1in47 2percent graden quater inch a foot.

With the new piece of ply with the added on 18inch bridge making the ply 4feet long be too long to store in the shed, I will have to lift that piece off with ease, wiring will have those speaker plugs two sets on the first station module and two on the front corner module, the wires run in under the 6inch double track bridge.

I have now opened my layout to include 737 fuselages, the wind turbine blades and now ships,, there be access to the port from the front of the layout, I will have two reverse loops to change trains around, lots of work ahead to keep me busy on projects on those cold and hot days.

The first pic I have replaced the piece of ply to take the first 7ft foot long radius curve section., the corner module sits perfectly in place and the curved sections will hold it in place, back on the layout Wednesday, take a few days to finish, I will set up the curves temporary lay some track on the curves, over the weekend , can't wait.to see the loco run onto the last station module.

Tony from down under

May 13, 2017

Thanks vjoneslong, I made the most of the space it must be at least 50ft of covered roof with the car port but still open to the east when the rain is coming from there, would love to close it all in cost too much when I have in the past put up tarp when running trains on the last layout, it took up a lot of space and it was smaller.in length

Yeah it is mind blowing what is out there and on you tube type in the right word opens up to so much stuff, have you looked at 3/D google earth yet it is pure awesome and you get down even closer, I was looking a port in Sweden, those large container cranes are massive, a great tool to use when scratching building and modelling.

It is after mid-day over where you are looking at the UK clock on my screen ,

Today I drilled the holes for the leg bolts and screwed the leg hinges in place ready to paint, couldn't do any painting raining of and on all afternoon was a pain wind with it as well, so I decided to make a start on circular saw cross cut adjustable jig so I can cut a square cut very quick with ease.up to 45mm thickness timber, no work on the layout tomorrow Mother's day, raining even heaver than today.

Here is another pic I forgot to add on the last post and didn't add the point in the module point mock-up plan, have a great Saturday afternoon.

Tony from wet down under

May 12, 2017

I am sure glad I don't have to bend down working on the whole layout, the only time is when levlelling the modules , curved sections, plugging the wires up bolting the station modules together and screwing the curved sections together, after the modules and curved are levelled the track laying and wiring is done on modified saw houses.

Like the idea of mock-up track and point laying to see how the point look like from the track plan and also of how many points needed for each module or curved section, handy since I am on a budget, today I needed to set up stage two of my station module complex to mark how the track coming off the car port end , actually I was wrong the way I did the mock-up on stage two before after fining this pic, not quite to the pics but close enough.

The problem being the angle of the Peko cross overs and points.

Pic one is the car port area after the last straight piece at the bottom of the pic be the 7ft curves and link up on the back corner module to the bridge, pic to is showing the front corner module which would lead into the first , module, pic 3 aa is what I am trying to achieve, pics 3and4 is my version, pic four I may replace the single slip cross over with a diamond one and have two express points and only needing one single slip cross over.

Tomorrow I plan to finish off the front corner module drilling quarter inch holes countersinking, making a bracket for leg hinge if time will paint the module ready to nail the track down and start the wiring again, never ending.

Tony from down under.

May 6, 2017

It is amazing what is out there on you tube, I am now looking fro a good sport in the back yard to model a RORO port afte seeing these videos pure amazing, the RORO ports they don't use the massave gangtry container crane but in the first video they used two cranes, the second crane is themorden dock crane some have truck wheels, be achallange to model, will have to have a lot of pics , any help be greatfull.

I just found the Preview button and have worked out to have two tabs up top for posting more than one video clip or if you go to your favoutite folder you will lose what is on the post and have to start again.

What you do is open the first new tab then click the RMweb.co.uk tab brings you back to your post, in your favourites you pick the link right click and see the new tab click that, you can have as many tabs you like this saves going back to your favourite and losing your work done on the post this is the third attempt., the second video clip I couldn't copy.

Here are a couple of pics I found, first pic had railway as well sure opens up to a lot of possibilities to model and lots of pics if you can find pics of the dock crane of interest, could also have a model small container ship too.

Must of being the second tab why I couldn't copy can now enjoy

Today I hope to level the spiral corner module, mark the legs and cut them to size , the corner module is ready for painting want to fit the module fold up legs before painting, I am also making a special mitre jig for my 18volt battery circular saw to get the most out of it and most of all cutting a square cut., the jig be able to cut any size up to 45mm, might get a chance to make a start on the mitre box as well.

I will try the copy the video clip to the next post, may be only copy one video clip per post.

Tony from down under.

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April 30, 2017

Made a start on two of the arches of the suburban rail bridge crossing the 6 lane road bus lane and two pedestrian bridges cut out two arches the pedestrian arch being the smallest arch, can't close in the roof of both arches till I do the bus track wiring, the actual bridge is on an angle to the road I drew up a on a module the width of the arches, with a bit of filling the arches will look ok when finished , time will tell when the second half joins up.

Tomorrow I will finish off the second arch and wok on the second rail bridge being the temporary main line , the other half is past of the lift out section of station module, will be recutting the sides making them smaller, hopefully be layout track down next weekend and back to the bus wiring .

Be on the con to buy more buses only onw one bus was looking on eBay this morning prices not too bad, semi trailers triple the price be on the search to buy a lot of cars and people lot of them, at least you can buy them in bags of a thousand I have seen, this is where the hobby gets expensive. that makes the scene.

Had a rest today, other than getting the pics ready by adding with lines on the road amazing as I said above.

Tony from down under

April 28, 2017

Evening Satans's goldfish 200cm is that the height with the bridge as well, I just worked out the beam width and length to 87 scale measuring 2.1 metres in length width 304mm quite a large ship she can hold 324 containers triple in trailers, 4 decks all, with mine being a water line model only three decks, I am after the perfect pic, some I can't share that copy right thing. I am going to modify the height between the decks so she will fit in under the my bridge height of 305mm clearance, the bridge should be 600mm to scale I model trailers mainly US trailers come in handy,work on this new project on those cold windy winter days, not sure what I will built the ship out of.

Be cutting the bridge arches on the corner module today using styrene for the top of inside the pedestrian and bridge arch easy to bend look good when finished.

Here are a couple of pics fo my stage one fo the station modules and the approach modules from the car port beyond the last module is a 7foot double track curve section, the track deck runs down outside the car port onto a single curve track section and onto the bridge. yet to be levelled, need to complete the spiral and the car port end after that.

Tony from down under.

April 28, 2017

HI Satans's Goldfish, WOW what a build do to have the measurements of the height of the conainer ship will be slightly biger than 87 scale, I checked out your other links, just pure awesome, if only I had a few thousand to spare, I am pushing on, you built your own containers as well what did you use to get the corragated iron affect, had a go at scratch building smooth sided refrigerated containers, bout a heap of the frig units, will rebuild them. I am building up my double stack container well wagons got 15 so far after more, also have the 60ft and 40ft flat container wagons 23 of them longer the better, love those long trains with two or three locos up front.

I found another RORO truck ferry this one has containers as well, will have to be a water line mode, if I make the bridge height water clearance three inches higher she will fit in fine , Finnbreeeze, I found a PDF line drawing of the side of the ship actually the ship drawing is of the British Tor line Tor Jutlandia and found out Finnlines have the same design ship ( Finnbreeze) 12 to 15inches, wont be dropping the height of the spiral 6 inched be 4 inches will have to climb up another 7 inches 25foot long ramp.

did a full size plan drawing of the suburban rail bridge crossing over Eddy AVE, worked out well , not 20inches is 22 inches , marked out a piece of 12mm ply of the pedestrian tunnel and three land road ready to cut out tomorrow., will finish the spiral corner module tomorrow and start painting, moving along nicely taking my time.

More pics pleas of your container ship and measurements be great, I plan to built two ships second one with a complete hull, with working prop second hobby .

Tony from down under cold Friday 7 degrees this morning.

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April 27, 2017

It would of being a shock when the US put a cow catcher on the Flying Scot and larger light up the top of the front of the loco, we don't have them over here, not many pics of the US tour and sadly they didn't bring over the water tender on the Aussie tour, ours were used, was a big success.

My curves on my layout are 7ft radius even the spiral is except the large S bend its curve is 6ft and the last curve has a 4ft half radius curve the trains will fly around them with ease, can't wait to run the Flying Scot, got two FS's with different name badges on them, I think to do with the duel tender and single tender.

The lift out section on the first station is read for painting, still have a lot of work in that area, be left for later, the track curve closer to the module join pic two I will replace, I use those computer brass coated boards cut into strips to hold the track down on th module join works well .

Tony from down under

April 27, 2017

Hi Vjoneslong

No they didn't not like they did in the US tour, all they did was have special name boards made for tours the Flying Scot there is a DVD on the Aussie tour, toAlice Springs and tour to Western Australian where she was put on a ship back home.

I plan to build two models, fist one a water line model, I found a PDF file on a British Tor line RORO ship, would like to model a ship for that scene want to model a container ship as well, planning a container port on day.

I didn't do much today the side the first spiral curve fits into I finished but still a bit more to do between the corner module and first station module, got to do some drawing tonight to do on the arches of the rail bridge. and pathway arches.

Pic two is how I bolt the curve sections together, the track line up perfect on the joins no movement at all and only two screws or bolts.

Tony from down under

April 26, 2017

Hi vjoneslong, no worries will keep a check on your progress, the way I am building my layout so long as I get a few years running out of it, the whole layout modules fit in the garden shed stacked up \, I am yet to cut strips of ply to screw to the curved sections to stop them from bowing and twisting while in storage, I will only be running the layout in the cooler months of the year, have designed the layout so I can set some of it up to run trains on those rainy days .

Yeah all to do with the loading , same here even though our loading is different to yours we can't have US trains running over here a lot of their wagons are double is size to ours, but I can't work it out the Flying Scot is a huge loco bigger than ours proved it when she visited us in 1988, a same I wasn't into trains back then as she visited Brisbane double heading with 3801

Back to the 737 fuselage project, I have thought of piping getting it the right size still need to shaft the two ends, I even tried turning a piece of pine but found it to hard to shape, thinking of balsa wood, it also comes down to detail on the fuselage like where the wings bolt onto the fuselage and they have a special cradle the fuselage bolts to you can see right through,. you will see in the pic.

The US are crazy they build the fuselages on the east coast and ship by rail to the west coast Seattle and now the tail sections are built over seas they also shipped the 757 by rail too because the fuselage was the same diameter, I plan to build one 757 fuselage, being so long the 757 was shipped in three sections., the 767 couldn't be shipped by rail only spare parts.

I am also finding out what the different parts are of the hull of a ship measurement wise,, I worked out the height of the Hull , still working out the height of the whole ship, works out to be still like to get hold of plans of a RORO ship, on going research.

Tony from down under

April 25, 2017

Hi vjonesiong, many thanks , yeah sure is the bridge is going to be the main feature of the layout in some ways modules in its own right something different, again too much module top why I have cut back the two front modules for and adding a scene .

Yes have to agree what you are saying about modelling water fronts and harbours, thanks for that video link of that layout, I figures it had to be modelled on the build up to D-Day , very awesome indeed, there is other area you don't see is airports and planes, Have a project on the go modelling 737 fuselages for a train load built the first fuselage out of 1mm cardboard wasn't happy with the way it turned as the cardboard soaked the paint up making it darker.

Planning a second737 fuselage nest series up 737-800 and it be built out of plastic styrene last one took a month to build and I built it wrong anyway after seeing a bloke build one in 1/35th scale, will be using some of his technics, got 6 planned, #/D printing be the way to go but very expensive.

Back to the RORO ship I am going to have to do some homework here and get hold of a scale plan of any RORO ship, the way I worked out the height she was over 365mm high from the water line, decided to get out one of my trailers .to work the height out a lot lower and fitted in under the bridge, ringing a model boat club this week and my local hobby to see if he can get hold a model plastic kit.

I did some more work on the two modules yesterday afternoon and finished the lift out section ready for painting now, today will start filling up the holes with plaster, the spiral corner module I am improving the way the first curved section is bolted to the module was having too much trouble joining them up , give my wife a break for the cutting for a while, next week start cutting out the sides of the bridge.

Found your post , gee you sure are moving along well with the construction out of brick we can get that brick you are using over here but quite expensive, does your wife help you in the build, my wife isn't interested in the hobby, only ask for help if needed do the lot myself.

Tony from down under.

April 24, 2017

I forgot to add the pic, of the bridge I am modelling going on the back of the layout,24foot in length .

Tony from down under.

April 24, 2017

Hi vloneslong, many thanks the progress of the layout going to long going once I get past the the front spiral corner and first station module rebuild be easy, achived a lot on Saturday di da lot of cutting with the battery saw finely cut the last curve to the lower level of the spiral connectiong the spiral deck to the back of the layout, I sill have recut new legs for the spiral just as well with the new sides of the spiral corner fixed up the bow in it. It has 100mm sides on it now so I plan to remodel the join of the first curve to the spiral, the old way isn't as easy as I thought had trouble pushing it into the other module big improvements there, I want to make it very easy to set the layout up, the wiring is plug and play set up.

The rail bridge section is coming along nicely as well the pic with the bus in it is where the tunnel will go pedestrian tunnel is going wanted to check the clearance in the height wise, will cut out that tunnel first one on the other side as well, this scene be a good viewing point.

The double deck cable stay bridge,, the sides I cut will become the frame work holding the road deck up and the cable stays , making them out of 5mm dowel, too much work using wire, each section is 6foot long and will have half of the main tower, each section will be bolted together , my bridge will have 305mm clearance would like to have 600mm not to be.

The bridge is modelled on the Oresund bridge bridging the huge gap between Denmark and Sweden , I be only modelling the main span and that is cut back to fit it in will still look good when finished planning to only build the rail deck first and the sides of the bridge so I can attach the cable stays too the full height of my tow is 7feet and the tower is 3inches deep and inch and a half wide.

Guess what I am even going a step further modelling a RORO ship, found one that has a line drawing and will just fit under the bridge, my ship be a water line model , come in handy as I have a spine car rain with 25 spine cars and trailers awesome site indeed, I love long trains going to add on another set of 5 to make 30 spine cars, got two sets of container trains as well working on wheat silo train and later oil train, train and a mixed manifest train as well, longer the better.

I have some British trains as well, my favourite loco being the famous Flying Scott 4472 she has two tenders and this will blow you away, the water tender is powered as well, both motors are 5pole gee she can pull 11 coaches on the clubs layout I used to belong to not any more, she will pull 16 cars I reckon on my layout., got to fix some cheap coaches I have, they derailed on the clubs layout a lot..

More progress work tomorrow in the afternoon ANZAC day big march in Brisbane in the morning watch it on TV.

Tony from down under

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April 20, 2017

Update on the rebuild of the first station module and spiral corner module, a lot of work ahead modelling a road to pass in under the new extended rail bridges, I have found some more pics of Sydney Central street scene I be modelling around the station building with the road on the lower level. and this scene become a different station scene as the Indian Pacific pulls out of off Sydney a very quick fast clock pulling into East Perth terminal at the end of the day journey takes 3 days.

The station complex be built in two stages the best way to do it on a budget, can't build Sydney station build till then taking up two modules wide being over 4feet in width will stand out so a couple of engineering feats with the bridge at the back of the layout.

Stage one be modelled on East Perth terminal and later will have four tracks for a staging yard to become station track for Sydney Central, moving the staging yard into the garden shed becoming a vertical yard will run off the spiral, the extra throttle become a local throttle and forth throttle become late DCC.by passing the main DC control panel, the two mainline throttles are remote throttles.

The pics I have loaded in sequence showing my modules and real pic what I am modelling, the road level scene come later and looking back on the second last post I be changing the 3/4 inch ply sides to 100mmx12mm ply sides mainly because of the road being 20 inches wide with the second pathway tunnel on the other side of the road, I like design the modules so I can add on as I go.

Pic four and the pic after is East Perth terminal where the IP ends her journey across Australia which one day I hope to go on, the last two pics, pic 5 showing the ply top pulled out the way to show later Sydney Central station road level access to the suburban platform,.

Pic 5 and last pic is what I be modelling with the ply top lifted out, looking at the last pic left hand side of the pic is what the scene be modelled on lot of work there can't wait.

Tony from down under

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