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Inglenook with a level crossing? Where?


Chubber

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I find ageing decreases both memory function and the sense of passing time......Where was I?  Oh yes! Have I or have I not seen an Inglenook, beautifully modelled here somewhere that incorporated a level crossing [closed] as one limit of shunt?

 

Conversely, have I thought of something new?

 

That's used up my allocation of question marks for the month, so over to the RMWeb sleuths.

 

Doug

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Oh, Tony! I didn't think I could have had an original idea.

 

That's not the one although it is everything you have said, especially the 'nice model'. I'll confess now to having wasted about a trillion electrons trying to find the one I'm after, found many, but not the one. I remember [did I?] that it used two curved turnouts and one pair of crossing gates, and as Colin suggests, had a tree to the right to obscure the view of the far right-hand side of the crossing.

 

[He's a bit good, that Colin, isn't he...?]

 

Blast! I'm now into next months allocation of question marks....

 

Doug

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Oh, Tony! I didn't think I could have had an original idea.

 

That's not the one although it is everything you have said, especially the 'nice model'. I'll confess now to having wasted about a trillion electrons trying to find the one I'm after, found many, but not the one. I remember [did I?] that it used two curved turnouts and one pair of crossing gates, and as Colin suggests, had a tree to the right to obscure the view of the far right-hand side of the crossing.

 

[He's a bit good, that Colin, isn't he...?]

 

Blast! I'm now into next months allocation of question marks....

 

Doug

Don't worry Doug the electrons are just fine but an awful lot of photons will have tranferred energy between them.

 

You're not wrong about Colin's Inglenook.

I thought I'd seen another one with a level crossing to close off the end but I've just found the layout I was thinking of and it didn't.

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Conversely, have I thought of something new?

Doug

 

Is anything ever new or unthought of in model railway layouts ... sadly.

 

I can think of seeing at least two other layouts with an inglenook "theme" on was in 7mm the other IIRC was in EM. I cannot recall names but both were on the show circuit. The 7mm one was more of a paved yard with insets and had "the usual" bridge over as a scenic break. The EM was the typical "town" scene with a road and adjacent terrace of houses as the scenic "off scene" break., what is more the level crossing "old style" gates worked.

 

The latter is frequently used as an off scene break and makes a pleasing change on any layout from the tradition bridge (with or without a bus on it).

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Close but no cigar, Trevor. Thanks for your input. In retrospect, the one that

I'm after had medium 'Y' turnouts. It came to me 20 minutes after putting out the light last night, SWMBO was not amused to be dragged from her slumbers by me saying out loud 'Medium 'Y's...not curved!'

 

Doug

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