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Omagh Goods Yard 1959


tmcg1959
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Far from wanting to confuse readers, the past two years has seen my attempts at building a layout fail. With renewed enthusiasm and lots of technique observed at the recent Model Railway Show at Cultra, I have built new baseboards for my new layout, built this time with a view to actually exhibiting, sometime in the future. The baseboards are almost complete, they are mobile and will be an end to end shunting layout featuring a hidden fiddle yard working to Omagh Goods Yard. The next job in hand is to cut the plywood alongside the track work and that will ultimately form my embankment. I was adamant this time to raise the entire track bed to allow a more realistic look. Here are the start of my construction pictures. The layout measures 2800 x 350 including a 700mm hidden fiddle yard. The last shot shows the loosely laid Code 75 streamline track.

 

 

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Don't forget to model the litter!

Over on the IRM site, Irishswissernie's Glengariff, not to forget his previous GNR photographs, are inspiration for a realistic yard.

Good luck and don't give up!

 

 

Interesting point. Was there as much litter in the 1940s and 1950s as there was in more recent decades? Judging by old online photos railway station's track work especially near platforms looked a disgrace with litter from the 70s to the mid 90s compared to the black and white photos of apparently cleaner stations and yards in the 1940s and 1950s.  Same applies to weed growth on sidings, the rail networks looked better maintained in the 40s and 50s than latter decades or is that 'rose' tinted glasses if even in B&W? :) 

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