Grim-up-North; Goathland, Queensbury & Bradford.

[westerhamstation]

Hi Shaun, great stuff, I hope that the chinese gremlins havn't left any hidden suprises for you. All the best Adrian .

[Sasquatch]

Hi Shaun, great stuff, I hope that the chinese gremlins havn't left any hidden suprises for you. All the best Adrian .

Hi Adrian. There's a few problems I need to sort out like one faulty switch and a sticky point motor but so far everything I have tested seems to be good!

 

Regard Shaun

[Sasquatch]

Squatch just might stand a chance of a medal in the soldering iron gymnastics. Only missed one connection and hasn't scalded any fingers    

 

 

Rainbow spaghetti under board B.

I have used a train set controller to supply 20VAC for the solenoids and 9VDC for the relays. It could use more amps on the point switching circuit due to the length of some of the wires, so I'll keep looking for a better supply like the one on Goathland which has a hefty 2 amps @ 20VDC and came from our old printer!

 

This afternoon I hooked up the boards and tested it all. Apart from a few small problems it works. So tomorrow Queensbury will be reassembled and put to the final test. Trains!

 

Of course no post would be complete without one...

...J50 pausing to top up its tanks at Goathland.

 

And a nice view of the station.

 

Squatch.

[Sasquatch]

Found a few old Photographs of the viaduct and Pottershire.

 

[cgraham]

Photos of your scenery always makes me feel like I have so much to learn and too little talent.

Just beautiful. 

[Sasquatch]

Hi Clay.

I'll take that as a compliment my friend. You have truck loads of talent, I was sitting here in the small hours admiring your castle!

 

Enough said   :sungum:      

 

 

[Sasquatch]

Just a couple more pics and it's off out to the garage.

 

The K1 toned down a bit.

 

This is one of my favorites. Modern transport services from the sixties. 

 

Squatch

 

[Sasquatch]

After stumbling out of the Birch Hall Inn with a belly full back last week I grabbed this picture of Pottershire post office in the light of the full moon with my new phone.

 

 

 

Here's preserved BR standard Mogul 76079 on Eller beck bridge with a teak rake bound for Whitby. 

 

_{Edit: For the record I've never been in the Birch Hall Inn and have not got a new phone.} 

Edited October 5, 2018 by Sasquatch

[Sasquatch]

So Queensbury still hasn't been put back together. Reason: It is two inches too wide and blocks the side door. Solution: Take off door and remove casement.     So yesterday afternoon was spent putting the door on so that it opens outwards! Today I need to finish the job with seals and paint, it needed a revamp anyway. 

 

Hopefully I'll have time to reassemble the layout this afternoon and if it works I'll be happy for several reasons foremost that the hidden sidings at the back which serve Goathland can be used!

 

The plan then is to get the ballast down and the infrastructure made. 

 

Two more corner boards have to be made but knowing me once I get going in the woodwork shop the boards for Bradford will be done also.

 

Squatch Feeling over optimistic this morning.

 

PS. Thank you all for all the likes, I find it very encouraging which helps keep me focused.

[Sandhole]

Hi Clay.

I'll take that as a compliment my friend. You have truck loads of talent, I was sitting here in the small hours admiring your castle!

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Enough said   :sungum:      

Words escape me!!!

I'd expect to see Nazgul nesting on one of the turrets!!!

Gorgeous!!!

                 Chris.

[Sandhole]

After stumbling out of the Birch Hall Inn with a belly full back last week I grabbed this picture of Pottershire post office in the light of the full moon with my new phone.

Potershire full moon..JPG

 

 

 

Here's preserved BR standard Mogul 76079 on Eller beck bridge with a teak rake bound for Whitby. 

prserved 76079 on Eller beck bridge..JPG

 

_{Edit: For the record I've never been in the Birch Hall Inn and have not got a new phone.} 

I've said it before on another thread it applies here, that shot of the post office is modelling porn!!!!

Massive Respect!!!

                          Chris.

[Sasquatch]

I've said it before on another thread it applies here, that shot of the post office is modelling porn!!!!

Massive Respect!!!

                          Chris.

You're get me expelled by Andy Y.

[Sasquatch]

This mornings optimism seems to have paid off, so I'll continue with a very optimistic post this evening.

 

Most of the morning was spent getting the door frame pucker  and rearranging half the warehouse.

 

This  afternoon had me crawling about on all fours like a beast, shimming  and laying on my back hooking up yet more wires. The floor in there is extremely uneven!

 

Results speak for themselves...

 

Plywood Khazad-Dûm

 

 

This shows where the Bradford section will go

and the wheelie stereo console   

 

Strange to see Goathland so close to the West Riding in this long shot.

 

 

 

However, there are about a dozen minor problems and small fixes. not least...

 

Where the two layouts meet the scenery requires matching up. Oops

 

 

Some of the rails across the triangle joint have shrunk due to a change in temperatures. 

This was planned. Having encountered this problem before, foresight prompted me to lay the track in hot weather. had I laid it on a cold day the rails would have buckled when temperatures reached the 100s next summer!   

 

 

That hidden siding tunnel is far too long and dark. "I thought I could see a light at the end of the tunnel but it was just the boss with a touch bringing me more work"!!

 

 

And... my garage isn't square. This I'm OK with because if it were true I'd have to move that bloody light switch!

 

 

 

Here's the first train to run on Queensbury then,( albeit behind on the hidden section from Goathland). Note the baseboard joint which is about 6 feet from the train.

 

 

Lastly J50 arriving with the first ballast train. It has just emerged from Queensbury tunnel and is pictured here where the North signal box once stood.   :sungum: 

  

 

Squatch Zai adshânzu

 

Edited to correct bad Dwarvish (Birashagammi, gulubmi nithal Khuzdul).

Edited October 6, 2018 by Sasquatch

[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Looking forward to N1's and Quad-Arts..........................tomorrow........... perhaps LOL

 

manna

[Sasquatch]

G'Day Folks

 

Looking forward to N1's and Quad-Arts..........................tomorrow........... perhaps LOL

 

manna

Looking forward to N1s too mate. Right after I've remortgaged the house!

 

The Quad-Art set was made up of ex GNR 6 wheelers. There are some reasonably priced card body kits available, I'd just need to source some 8' Fox bogies. 

 

Also looking into scratch building a J6.  Got to keeps my GNR fans happy!

 

 

For now though I must concentrate on layout work before the cold weather.

 

Today I had a major clean up, tidied and reorganized much. The first job will be to hook up another controller for Queensbury because for now the two layouts remain separate in the form of two L shape ones that cross over each other.

 

Regards Shaun.

[Sasquatch]

The only modeling on the agenda lately has been loads for some rolling stock. Some scraps of wood have been ripped down and used along with jute coloured carpet thread, beading cord (which make a good representation of fine chain) Evergreen plastics and some Heljan HO freight kits now marketed by Knightwing I believe. It’s all painted with crafters acrylics and held together with PVA, tape and 2sec cyano.  Wagon weathering is powders. Most loads are removable/interchangeable.

 

Imported cedar.

 

Replacement drivers. (what else could be done with white metal wheels)

 

Knotty Norwegian Den crates and beer.

 

Large packing cases and oak for furniture making.

 

Pipes.

 

Empty cable drums and small aluminium coil loads on pallets.

 

China clay for paper, a sports car...

 

and cable drums for an electrification project. This one plank might be a little overloaded.

 

This representation of an LNER diagram 25 cattle wagon is kit bashed from the Parkside version. I'd used the chassis parts for a fish van ages ago so had to source replacement parts from the scrap box.

 

the LMS brake van has wire hand rails and ballast box etc. I see Hornby have announced a retool of this for 2019. Typical!

 

Lastly I have hashed up a model of preserved 3F 47406 from a Hornby one. Amazing what you can do with a $1 can of satin black from Walmart.

 

The whistle is just a piece of 16gauge electrical wire with the insulation cut to shape and painted copper. A fun little project and runs very smooth.

 

I'll try not to leave it so long between posts next time

[Alister_G]

Glad to see you got into the garage without kneeling on anything important!

 

Nice work mate, looking good.

 

Al.

[Sasquatch]

Glad to see you got into the garage without kneeling on anything important!

 

Nice work mate, looking good.

 

Al.

I was lucky the whole layout didn't collapse. Top of my to-do list is getting a spare key cut 

 

Good to hear from you Al.

[manna]

G'Day Folks.

 

Plenty, Plenty wagons.

 

manna

[Sasquatch]

G'Day Folks.

 

Plenty, Plenty wagons.

 

manna

Need to be getting on with the locos like you mate!... Trouble is there's 4 trays of more wagons on the kitchen table work bench at the moment

 

Regards Shaun

[Sasquatch]

Note to self....

 

GET ON WITH THOSE BACKSCENES.

 

 

For anyone interested that's supposed to be Dunster Castle!
 

[jcredfer]

Looks quite like Dunster Castle, interesting place, but I don't remember seeing the move "oop narth", in the news. 

 

Last time we were there [Dunster] they had a mock Roundhead / Cavalier battle on offer.  Before the event a few were checking their muskets and one had a missfire, and tried to get the matchlock to work, [Yes I know most Civil War muskets were flintlock, but I suppose there must have been some older matchlocks, due to expense.] - blowing on the fuse, re-priming the pan each time, adjusting it etc   Having fiddled about with the hot end and given it every opportunity to light a smoldering ember in the barrel from the Pan flashes, he then turned it round to take a long look down the barrel!!!!  My daughter was about 6 at the time and not wishing her to experience quite such a dramatic demonstration of the energy released when gunpowder burns in a musket barrel, we left, quickly.

 

Regards

 

Julian

Edited January 16, 2019 by jcredfer

[Sasquatch]

Looks quite like Dunster Castle, interesting place, but I don't remember seeing the move "oop narth", in the news. 

 

Last time we were there [Dunster] they had a mock Roundhead / Cavalier battle on offer.  Before the event a few were checking their muskets and one had a missfire, and tried to get the matchlock to work, [Yes I know most Civil War muskets were flintlock, but I suppose there must have been some older matchlocks, due to expense.] - blowing on the fuse, re-priming the pan each time, adjusting it etc   Having fiddled about with the hot end and given it every opportunity to light a smoldering ember in the barrel from the Pan flashes, he then turned it round to take a long look down the barrel!!!!  My daughter was about 6 at the time and not wishing her to experience quite such a dramatic demonstration of the energy released when gunpowder burns in a musket barrel, we left, quickly.

 

Regards

 

Julian

Hi J.

That sounds like it could have turned into a rather nasty disaster! As far as I'm aware the castle is still down in the sunny west. Being rather cold out in the warehouse I chose to take pictures in my cozy attic to avoid shivering and blurry images, Sorry for the confusion mate!

[Sasquatch]

I trust all you Goathland fans have checked out Trevor's thread here

 

Some really great photos of the NYMR in its infancy.

[jcredfer]

Phew!!  I'm glad Dunster Castle is still there and I hadn't missed such a huge project.  This old age thing can cause so much confusion at times, you just never know.  I even thought I fell out of bed last night and had to get out to have a look!  

 

You will be aware that a discarded [extinguished!] match or cigarette can continue to smoulder for the best part of a week, before an appropriate draught of wind can set it into flame again.  I am very glad that wasn't something we had to witness.

 

Back to the layout, I approve the layout Castle move and look forward to seeing how the Queen likes the new home in Somerset.

 

Regards

 

Julian