BigLars

Great to see you back at the layout.

Hello, I did a presentation on my WW1 layout last week and thought some of you would be interested. For clarity the layout is 1/43.5 British O scale on 16.5 mm track. I slipped up a little on the intro. Sorry about the poor sound quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbvwkY_MTbs&t=5s

Corps. of Canadian Railway Troops – Europe 1918 1/43.5 Scale - YouTube Some pictures on my WW1 RR progress in the form of a video PowerPoint.

Checking in to see if you have done any additional work on the layout?

Kevin, I am very excited to see the layout back in operation. Also nice to see how it is all held together.

Here is the address for PLM. 12 New Street, Merryhill, Wolverhampton, Wv3 7NW Tele 01902 570810 / 07804 651121 I also use figures from S&D, ModelU, buffalo Creek and Wrightlines on the Corps of Canadian RR troops Layout. I have not orderred from this site yet but they do carry Military Figures 42mm should be 6 feet. http://www.irregularminiatures.co.uk/indexes/42mmindex.htm Let me know if you need more info. Larry

Any progress? It has been some time and the fans need some updates.

I have been working on a fleet of 20HP Simplex engines. Video of one running.

Back to the Chopper coupler testing. My 3D printed couplers arrived today that I can inset a Magnet in. Video on my Yukon CDN RR I put 1lb of weight on a train and the Bachmann Baldwin engine could not pull the load or pull the rolling stock apart. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCaYTRMam1s

Sad but not unexpected news. I only recently came in contact with Adrian by email a couple of years back. I'm a Canadian living in the US and have a keen interest in WW1 WDLR. Adrian made it a point to answer all my questions and ask for progress photo's of my work. Even being sick, Adrian filled one last order of War Department simplexes and wagons to allow me to have enough to complete my project. Adrian you will be remembered and your fine kits will live on, fully assembled, on my railroad for years to come. Rest in piece my friend, I wish I could have met you in person. Larry

Just got off the phone with the CAD designer. One version of a magnetic / or not chopper. This one fit in a standard Kadee #5 pocket.

Next up.

I have been doing a lot more work than I am posting. I am adding DCC keepalives to all my WW1 engines. Have built more howitzers and rolling stock and might have finally solved the chopper coupler challenges. I am experimenting with small magnets and have a 3d designer working on creating a coupler that hides the magnets in the face plates. Here are proof of concept pictures and videos. ] Video of working models. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HwOhMLNhjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f5iT7ryRpw Wish me luck.

Added a few more figures this week.

So happy to see an update. That is an amazing amount of equipment to then acquire and start to use. I'm very impressed. Now that you have a secret project we will all want to know what it is. If Llamas are needed we can start to narrow it down.

Here is one of the new Bachmann Trench locomotives running through an unfinished section of my RR that I use to store work in progress.

Next are some American cars I am working on. A friend designed and 3d printed the frame and tank. I cobbled the rest together.

Phil, thank you for the post. I have been straying a bit to do some equipment from other armies. The stuff was captured and used all the time. First up is a German Deutz Locomotive. It is a 3d printed shell from shapeways https://www.shapeways.com/product/KUKMLSYGV/b-1-43-deutz-loco-2a?li=shop-results&optionId=17016791 and a custom drive combining 3d printing and operating motor, gears and wheels. The drive is from Mark Clark in the UK https://www.locosnstuff.com/. The 3d print is not as fine as it could be but I can live with it using the 3 foot rule.

I was finally able to load the test video on youtube. https://youtu.be/81g6kHLj1a8

I'm back from my first live showing. I did get a chance to try the Cannon train on a test layout. For those on Facebook, I hope this link works. https://www.facebook.com/larry.knapp.90/videos/2676221105731642/

Ray, I had not seen this video - excellent, thanks for posting the link.

Next Friday will be my first public showing of the concept for my display railroad. I will not take any modules, but I will take a number of models, my Pizza layout, and the start of the video pieces of the layout. I will be running at least two screens off of a PC, one with a 300 page slide show, one with the movie "They shall not grow old", and possibly a third showing actual footage of WW1 trains running. Here are two screens with display in a test mode.

Any progress on the build?

One of the reasons I have pushed so hard on this project are the stories I get sent to me. This was posted on another site. My grandfather and his brother were both in the Canadian Railway corps. My grandfather was wounded in the lower abdomen by a shell splinter...his brother carried him back to an aid station were he was pronounced dead. His brother insisted they keep working on him, he was revived and patched-up enough to be sent back to a real hospital. He ended up with intestinal gangrene but somehow managed to survive( no antibiotics in those days) and was invalidated out and sent back to Canada. I still remember the time I first saw the golf-ball sized divot in his abdomen and he told me just that he had been wounded. A few years later he gave me the piece of shrapnel( or so he claimed it to be)....but he never went into details about his wounding. A second cousin researched it about ten years ago and told me then. Cheers Gene My reply was: Gene, Thanks for the story. I am posting a picture for you. If you have a picture of your Grandfather and his brother I can try to get figures that look similar. Please share any other information you might have.

Thank you Father Dougal. Are you looking of photo's of the individual figures or when I place them in scenes on the layout?