manna Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 G'Day Folks Looking forward to seeing something run on Queensbury. manna 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 22, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2019 7 hours ago, Andrew P said: A DEAD BASEBOARD with it's legs in the air, I hope you can resuscitate it mate, but again, the workmanship continues to inspire. CPR in the warehouse when Mrs. S. gets back from the vet with Merlin Andy. I can't wait to get the cork down using my new pneumatic fine stapler. Regards Shaun 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 23, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2019 On 22/04/2019 at 09:14, Sasquatch said: I mean legs in the air as promised. Why don't you use a vase like everyone else? (If you don't get that joke then I'm certainly not explaining it on RMweb. If you do then...) 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 23, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2019 About time we had some pictures of trains. A Cravens 2 car DMU emerges from the tunnel. Comes to rest in Goathland's up platform. (Well the bus is almost on the bridge) Grubby 75073 approaches from the opposite direction, light engine. The two pass on the bridge, At the summit under the road bridge... ...and drifts across the viaduct. Back to work. Shaun 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 G'Day Folks I know it's going to take some time, but it's going to look good when it all comes together. manna 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 23, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2019 28 minutes ago, manna said: G'Day Folks I know it's going to take some time, but it's going to look good when it all comes together. manna I'm working on it mate! Had to do some rearranging of the furniture and a bit of a spring clean this morning. The new boards married up very well to Queensbury and I'm drilling holes for the point motor pins before I start to lay tons of cork. trouble is it's 80F right now and I'm feeling pooped. Mrs. S. is having a siesta 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 I just did a double take - I recognise that church in photo #3, Shaun! Now you have me thinking about ivy-ing one of the walls of mine... Cheers Scott 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 24, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 24, 2019 16 hours ago, jukebox said: I just did a double take - I recognise that church in photo #3, Shaun! Now you have me thinking about ivy-ing one of the walls of mine... Cheers Scott Hi Scott. It's a nice little model and I am waiting for Gaugemaster to get a hold of the tooling to add it to their Fordhampton range. If they ever do I'm gonna have another go at it by redoing the stonework and getting the colour right. That crazy paving just don't look right and you'll be forgiven if you cover 3/4s of yours in ivy! Regards Shaun. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Sasquatch Posted April 25, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2019 Good progress these past two days... ...the new sections dwarf Goathland seen behind. The impact in the garage is huge! I managed to get the cork down all the way through the hidden sidings, around the back end and right up to the station throat. This got sped up when I discovered that by applying the glue to both the base board and the underside of the cork, then giving it a bit of a rub when laid it holds very well without pins or weight. (Basic cabinet stuff really?) Some track has been pinned down already. Two more pics worth posting are this one of the mill which has been placed temporarily on the hidden sidings behind Goathland. Didn't recognize it did you? And this one of the mill with a Bradford Daimler bus on the bridge Just to give an idea of what I'm aiming at with Grim up North. 16 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bogie Posted April 25, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 25, 2019 Mighty impressive stuff! 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 G'Day Folks It is massive. Are you having a bridge/tunnel, between Queensbury and Bradford Exchange ?? manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 26, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, manna said: G'Day Folks It is massive. Are you having a bridge/tunnel, between Queensbury and Bradford Exchange ?? manna Just a scenic break Manna. The line will run off of Queensbury through some hidden loops and over a hidden junction before emerging from under Bridge street. Then passes under Croft street bridge and fans out into the station. The concourse forms the back drop for Exchange and the line through platform 5 sneaks through the back scene to rejoin the Queensbury lines again. forming a return loop for the whole layout! That means I'll be able to have 2 trains running in each direction and still shunt Exchange and Bridge St. Goods. Regards Shaun Edited April 26, 2019 by Sasquatch Missed a fullstop. 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 26, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2019 All the track in the hidden sidings is preowned Atlas flex rail and those Shinohara turnouts I got at a show a couple of years ago. They need self latching SEEP solenoids and have nice metal check rails. They bend quite well with a little persuasion but not too much because a gap appears between the outside switch rail and the closure rail. Must get cracking, Shaun. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 G'day Folks Yep, get back to it..........Mush Mush ! manna 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2019 (edited) Time for an update... The skirts got a slap of paint... ...as did the missing fascia on Goathland. Not before the last signal was hooked up mind. Having spent most of this afternoon dealing with a broken 3 way turnout that's been sitting in the box for 25 years or so, I'm satisfied with the outcome. Both frog feed wires had broken off! The fix involved cutting away some webbing and filling with solder to replace another missing wire. New frog feeds have been added to the underside of the rail joiners. I then struggled with mounting two old Peco solenoid motors to it and had to figure out how to wire the thing up. It's live frog, so I hot-glued two switches to the motors. Using the multi-meter I made a colour coded sketch of the rails and labeled it "L" for left, "N" for normal and "R" for right which are upside down to the sketch! I marked one set of frogs orange and the other red, these go to the commons on the switches. The feed rails are black and green. I then painted the underside of the turnout with corresponding colours to my sketch then wired the whole thing up incorporating a 4 block connector and tested to see if it worked. Disconnecting the fan end wires from the block It was placed in the pre-cut holes so that now all I need do is reconnect the 4 wires. Simple! Not a fan of Peco solenoids. That done I could proceed with track laying. I got as far as the goods yard head shunt (the line with the BG on it) before I stopped and ran a train on Goathland. In the dark! The last train to Whitby is glimpsed passing under the road bridge while last orders are called in the Birch Hall Inn. The DMU creeps past the signal cabin... ... and squeals to a halt in Goathland. Shaun. Edited April 28, 2019 by Sasquatch Horible punctuation again! 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2019 Having still been out in the garage as late as 10pm, I failed to touch up my last train to Whitby images. So here we are... I'm still not sure it was worth the hours spent modeling that signal cabin interior? 7 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 28, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 28, 2019 Digging around in the attic I have found an old double track control unit someone gave me and when I get the chance this will be used temporally to control trains through Queensbury and when Bradford exchange gets wired up a hand held controller will be wired in to control the down line into Bradford. The up line forms the return loop line. Trains using it will run twice around the garage and use the loop. giving a total run of 196 feet (58M)... That's a scale 2¾ miles. The video might be interesting! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 16, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 16, 2019 On 22/04/2019 at 01:17, manna said: G'Day Folks Looking forward to seeing something run on Queensbury. manna Can do better than that... Having laid all the track in exchanges platform roads, hooked up my spare controller and fixed a dozen problems our test train the exquisite Bachmann class 105 starts it's trip at the top of the long incline behind Goathland. Emerges from Queensbury tunnel... ...without stopping because the platforms are long gone! Crosses Brook Lane and heads onto the new layout. It has gone through the sneaker line into what will be platform 5 and is seen here taking the incline out of exchange. It's now on the return loop hidden sidings daringly close the the baseboard edge. Now we head back to Queensbury on the newly finished scenic section of Queensbury which is on the Bradford boards and will be behind the concourse! Back through Queesbury. And into the tunnel! Note the signal box wont stand here but one did once as there were three originally. Here's a J50 on the viaduct. A class 4 on the turntable. Lastly the exchange platform roads. regards Shaun. 14 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 WOW That all looks a bit complicated mate. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 16, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 16, 2019 Just now, Andrew P said: WOW That all looks a bit complicated mate. Yes! Very glad that I made wiring diagrams. That return loop has caused a few shorts and I've had to add a few peco PL13 switches. There's no wiring on the Bradford boards yet. To get the train to do the loop there are just 2 cheat wires seen in pic 5! There's a crossover in front of the tunnel which allows trains to work that route. The DMU works better than a loco and coaches for that. Now I need to lay the good yard tracks and wire it all up. Will take the best part of 3 weeks I'm guessing. regards Shaun 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 G'Day Folks Very impressive, strange how DMU's run so well ! manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 17, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2019 4 hours ago, manna said: G'Day Folks Very impressive, strange how DMU's run so well ! manna Thanks manna. Can't tell which end's which on a DUM! The old split chassis class 4 does the loop just as smoothly but then ends up pushing the coaches back out of the loops. One thing I've learnt is that I'm gonna need a few web cams or something to see whats what in those hidden loops. I'm toying with the idea of periscopes. Old school but could do the job. Regards Shaun. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 17, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2019 6 hours ago, Andrew P said: WOW That all looks a bit complicated mate. Some explanation might be required Andy. Didn't have time to do this earlier! The loop or up line can be used as part of the big run twice around the warehouse and around the loop. Shown dotted in green! Trains being reversed will use the two inside lines of Queensbury. The third inside line at back (with the BG sitting on it) just cuts out using the loop. Trains running into Exchange should otherwise use the down line by missing the sneaker line. To achieve this some relays will be required to work with those complicated looking turnout arrangements. Regards Shaun. 8 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted May 17, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) Cropped OS map of the area modeled orientated to match the pic above. there's a lot of compression but once all the large buildings have been made this shouldn't be so apparent. Edited May 19, 2019 by Sasquatch Updated image/amend map. 5 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Now far clearer to understand mate, well done and thanks for the detailed explanation. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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