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9 hours ago, Sasquatch said:

Can't tell which end's which on a DUM!

I have to admit that until the picture that showed the red lights appeared as I scrolled down I thought it was running wrong road as it appeared to be coming out of the tunnel (as per photo description) on the right hand road.

 

Looks a spectacular run Shaun and is very inspirational... I'm looking forward to seeing it again next month when all of the scenery is complete ;)

 

Kind regards, Neil

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2 hours ago, Anotheran said:

I have to admit that until the picture that showed the red lights appeared as I scrolled down I thought it was running wrong road as it appeared to be coming out of the tunnel (as per photo description) on the right hand road.

 

Looks a spectacular run Shaun and is very inspirational... I'm looking forward to seeing it again next month when all of the scenery is complete ;)

 

Kind regards, Neil

Hi Neil.  It is running wrong road in the first picture, necessary  at present until I build the mill town and create the full run!

I'm glad the lights showed up, another reason for using the DMU (to prove the trains are actually running).

 

Blimey:O. You almost mentioned the "G" word! Chances are I;ll end up helping Mrs. Squatch with her 12" : 1' flower beds.

 

Regards Shaun.

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Today I managed to get busy on some of the curves that lead into the goods yard.

 

Some of which are quite tight due to space restrictions and to get as many sidings as possible squeezed in there I had to dig out an old Set Track curved turnout. Having regrettably used one on Dunster (they're not live frog!) wondered what I could do about the problem.

 

Solution. Convert it to live frog! An idea put in my head by Chris N about a year ago.

 

A 2" length of rail was taken to the bench grinder in a good pair of pliers.

 

First I tried soldering a 1mm piece of wire to it with no luck. So I returned to the grinder with another rail section but this time ground a nick out of the bottom and bent the rail 90 degrees while it was still hot. The tail has a small wire affixed to supply current.

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I then chiseled the plastic frog off and drilled a hole to insert the new frog. A little reaming was required.161147702_Modfrog(2).JPG.6c5d91a03151e3d1d8b40c638d37c151.JPG

 

 checked it for fit.

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Holding it in place with two scraps of cork I carefully soldered the new frog to the two frog rails, filed away any errant solder and tested it. Now I hope to shunt the yard with confidence.

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It's tight in the extremely compressed yard, so much so that I will only be modeling the end closest to Croft Bridge street. The large Lancs & Yorks goods warehouse will be the centerpiece  and to fit it in some 32" radius curves have been laid. Some points are employed in the yard where they shouldn't be.

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The off scene junction looks even more complicated than the station throat.

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To complete the post a train. The DPU is about to enter platform 1 which handled parcels to some extent after the goods station was demolished. Seen heading down the slope which is now obvious with a BG in the goods siding.

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I hope to finish laying the goods sidings that run into the warehousing tomorrow.

 

Regards Shaun.       

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punctuation yet again. And got my bridges mixed up!
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On 17/05/2019 at 12:31, Alister_G said:

That's lovely Shaun, brilliant shot.

 

Al.

Thanks Al. I need to get the detailing done on that model, it lets the image down a bit!

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Getting down to the conundrum of limited space in the goods yard on Sunday accumulated in very little getting done.

However I did come up with a fairly neat idea and have put that into motion.

 

Having already got down to 15½" radius, there was no chance of providing more than one line into the goods station.

At least not from the front! My idea was to add a passing loop that runs out of the shed fed from the head shunt which runs behind off scene. The toe of the sidings just tucks under Croft street bridge, so will appear to be fed from that direction. Operationally it will  provide a bit of interest.

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The head shunt needs to be extended onto the station board as far as possible and will have two isolated sections.

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Yesterday I set about the work starting with two second hand small radius dead frog turnouts. Renovation included a clean up, chopping off the soldered on fish plates...

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...replacement of the first four (now) three sleepers from a broken point with spring still attached...

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...new frog rails to add live frogs...

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...and bending to fit the curve. Two used peco switch machines have also been employed.

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It all took an evening to do, better than waiting two weeks for some new stuff to arrive in the mail and very satisfying work.   

 

Lastly an idea of what the scene will look like.1679945940_Sidingcheat(7).JPG.f0d7c615da231693d221e0c2dd5579ff.JPG

 

Thanks for looking in. Shaun.

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Today I start the wiring job seeing as all the track is down. There's a chance that I'll add another cross over so that trains leaving the goods yard can access the up line into the up loops. Again I'll renovate and modify some second hand junk at no cost.

 

This section of Grim up North is too large to capture in one image with my camera   so here are four starting with the loops fed from Queensbury.

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Around the corner to the hidden junction. Showing where I should add a cross over.

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Passed the goods yard.

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And into the station.

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I have already drilled and marked holes for all the droppers and will solder in colour coded wire droppers before I dismantle the layout.

One thing I have decided is to mount the inter-baseboard connections above board. These will be hidden under the warehouse building and bridge Street. I did this on Dunster which proved to be extremely useful over the years. 

 

Regards Shaun.

 

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Last night I fitted that crossover. These two Shinohara turnouts have been trimmed and bent a tiny to fit the curve, I will need to use an old H&M switch machine on the one nearest the camera to be sure the switch blade holds true to the left rail.

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The head shunt to the goods yard is now 5 feet longer and reaches the buffer at the end of the gradient on the loops.

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No post is ever complete without a train, so here's the J50. Could be deep in the heart of The West Riding or on the NYMR?

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Wish me luck I'm doing soldering iron gymnastics later...:lol: 

Shaun.

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...............   Cats' P Tea.........       

 

Well, you did ask.....  

 

Ok, time to go back to the day job....

 

Ahh! You may not be old enough for that connection.

 

Regards

 

J

 

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Thought I'd get cracking with the electrics today. Up early, all chores done etc.

 

We all know what happens to the best laid plans...

 

 ... this is Peep.

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He's a Rufous hummingbird I found down in the creek bed calling for his mom. He'd been blown from his nest during last nights wind. I fed him some honey in water and some termites then called the wildlife rescue center for advise.

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We made him a make shift nest from a ham container and kitchen towels and screwed it to the tall fir from which he fell and stood back.

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I'm very pleased to see mom feeding and cleaning him again.

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Now back to soldering iron gymnastics.

 

Felix gymnasticus have been confined to barracks BTW. You know, before they start getting ideas.

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Humming Bird fallen chicks always take precedence over incontinent cats.  

 

What an absolutely wonderful solution to what might have been one of nature's sad events, you must be full of delight for them.   YEAA!!

 

Regards

 

J

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7 minutes ago, jcredfer said:

Humming Bird fallen chicks always take precedence over incontinent cats.  

 

What an absolutely wonderful solution to what might have been one of nature's sad events, you must be full of delight for them.   YEAA!!

 

Regards

 

J

Yes! Have never held anything so fragile. It's a wonder he's still intact, I recon the nest must be a good 70 feet up!

 

And to have escaped the attention of Merlin and young Scatoosh what with all the noise he was making, he's one lucky, tough little guy.  Truly amazing creatures.  

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Unfortunately  Peep was nowhere to be found this morning, at least we tried! Observation of Rufous hummingbird activity in our yard is fascinating. Yesterday I saw a juvenile male feeding a fledgling. That means we have the adults, juveniles, fledglings and nestlings all at once! I suspect they live in family groups which act like gangs, particularly over possession of the feeders.

 

Anyhow it was back to soldering iron gymnastics  this afternoon. 

 

The two Bradford sections are so large that two 12" trestles had to be made in order to stand them up before wiring could commence.

I clamped the yard layout section to them for good stability. 

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Then the work area was organized with a door on yet two more trestles set up between both halves of Exchange.

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All the gubbins assembled and the tools set up.

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There's 31 solenoid motors in all and to test each one a hefty speaker wire has been run from the CDU on Goathland to enable testing each of the 31 point motors. One wire was soldered to the common and the other left loose as a probe.

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When throwing two points at once the same types of motor should be used. There are 7 of these twins which need a heavier gauge wire to  carry more amps when two solenoids need to be thrown by one switch.

Orange has always been my choice for the common on point motor circuits, again needs to be a heavy gauge throughout.

 

 

13 have now been wired in and tested, frogs & all. A good days work! At this rate the trains will be running by the weekend :lol:

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Regards Shaun.

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8 hours ago, manna said:

G'Day Folks

 

trains will be running by the weekend........Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

manna

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm mate, or is it encouragement?

 

Regards Shaun

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Two hiccups already manna mate...

... a truck load of old timber someone wants turned into garden screens and a faulty Peco solenoid, the one on far left in the last picture.

 

The work has come at just the right time because there's nice GNR stuff about to hit the market.

The solenoid has been replaced with much time consuming difficulty. Lesson learned, test secondhand stuff before installing it!

 

And ... I have also learned that those old H&M point motors are the best to use with the Shinohara turnouts, luckily enough I still have 8 of them. Mounted below board with the hot glue gun just a hole is needed and a stiff wire to the tie bar from the crank!

These are by far the easiest to install and most reliable solenoid motors around, perfect for self locking the Shinohara turnouts. They don't make stuff like they used to huh!

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Tonight's train looks well out of place. This is my improved Lima "flying banana", with full crew, passengers, extra pickups and directional lighting. Only it's number needs changing to W19. Then it will represent the unit borrowed by the LNER for a trial period during the late forties to see how diesel rail cars could cope with the heavy gradients of the Queensbury routes! 

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Lovely progress, most impressed.

 

I am, however, left with a question as to the second picture {you did that deliberately, didn't you?}  What is the Servo arm look-alike doing there?

 

Regards

 

J

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13 hours ago, manna said:

G'Day Folks

 

You take your time, get it right, don't worry about me,  what's this nice GNR stuff coming up  ?? or is it all TOP Secret :good:

 

manna

That Bachmann Atlantic, and one of A.J. Models  Shapeways N1s.  

 

 

1 hour ago, jcredfer said:

Lovely progress, most impressed.

 

I am, however, left with a question as to the second picture {you did that deliberately, didn't you?}  Where does the Servo arm look-alike doing there?

 

Regards

 

J

I'll try to interpret that two ways J.

 

It still needs linking to the tie bar and is best done when the layout is back on it's legs.

The pin on the crank passes through a 1/8" hole in the baseboard and hot glue applied to the motor mounts. the motor is simply slid onto the pin by the shaft, held until the glue solidifies and the grub screw on the shaft tightened down on the pin!

If you're belt and braces kind of guy, then a couple of small screws can be added to the motor mounts also. 

 

Incidentally I have either lost or never acquired the other eight cranks and will have to make some from code 75 rail scraps.

 

regards Shaun 

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