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  1. On 13/02/2023 at 15:20, Brian Harrap said:

     

    Hello Geraint,

     

    The stop sign. I came across this contraption whilst ferreting around a cement works at Lixhe in Belgium (I had thought such smashboard signals were confined to the wild west) but here it was clearly allowing access to only one siding at a time although quite why I was not able to find out. I had to have one on QUAI:87 of course and I rather cheated a bit by installing it at the confluence of several diamonds that needed a polarity change switch so thats what rotating the stop board on the layout does. Driving you loco onto a wrongly set diamond is thus averted.

    Of now to check out oebeek........Obeka......... you know the one

     

    Best, Brian

     

     

    Lixhe Spring 2009 077.jpg

    QUAI 87 Stop Board 2.jpg

    Love these quirks and that you have given them practical function in the operation of the layout

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  2. Rope shunting with El 5

     

    El 5 locomotives where built for the Norwegian State railway (NSB) in two series 1926 and 1927, a total of 12. They where taken out of service between 1969 and 1972. 
    El5.2039 is the only one left and was restored in the 1970s. 

     

    Ragnar

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  3. Thanks for the background story Baron. A slip would be a nice addition. 
     

    I had a run on the Rjukan line previous summer with my son, Mæl to Rjukan. Had the museum train to our self because of the pandemic situation. 
     

    Anyway, here is Amonia by the quay and Storegut at the slip, at Mæl. 
     

    2020-07-10 13.50.25.jpg

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  4. @Brian Harrap good to se the Quai still developing. 
     

    I’ve read the thread a time back but can not remember to have read your philosopy behind QUAI:87; selection of the theme, the untraditional layout. How did it all start? What did you want to achive?

     

    I also enjoy the ‘there is a prototype for that’ moments and the pictures and stories behind scenes and buildings that you wanted to incorporate. 
     

    /R

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