Red Baron Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 So i have been playing trains tonight, with my wrong scale track, my wrong code rail, my lack of OHLE and vague acknowledgement of time.... A quick look down a quiet morning at Lower Crappleton.... nothing much to see bar a resting ShoveDuff and a 108 abandoned.... A wider view shows the refurbished ( but not completed) platforms 1-4 being 12 coach max - platofrm 5 is awaiting a delivery of used R460's and some mental prep for more painting. You can see the remains of the old shed roads pre "extension" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 Disturbing the peace is an soon to be retired 85 (looking far too shiny) on parcels... snaking in on the down Fast. Rolling in on Platform 2 for a short stop for crew change Whist the crew swap over a 25 rumbles in with the the flasks from the local power station. Grumbling through platform 5 enroute to to Springfields As the parcels train departs the air is still but not for long. struggling along is 37 with a long rake of commuters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 37's are of couse like buses, so as soon as one appears.... so does Radio Highland with a mish mash service purporting to be Speedlink. Passing through on platform 4.. As the Up passenger service heads out of platform one on the Fast, Yet another 37 arrive in on with the sleeper service, past a Sprinter waiting for its next turn all whilst the lucky few doze away.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Just to blow the remote hint of "era" continuity a quick shot of stuff lurking in the RTP depot that awaits rebuild from its former glory with the new track layout . Will look to rebuild the scenery in the coming weeks once track layout is finalised. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony566 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 looking fantastic .... you have lots of very nice loco stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 A dire day in the attic.. Bachmann 66 decided to go AWOL, burnt out all its wiring from pickups to pcb, Havent been able to determine if the sound chip survived - factory fitted body never been off but as its 6 years old it isnt going to be a warranty job....have started replacing the wiring and keeping my fingers crossed. It looks like the pickup wire has rubbed through and shorted on the chassis block, but cant be sure. Had previously tried some weathering - with not brilliant results. But i guess practice makes perfect. Was using powders - which seemingly blew away when i applied a lacquer to seal. too close when spraying? the 2 further away were weathered by others.. 410 was me... needs work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony566 Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 A dire day in the attic.. Bachmann 66 decided to go AWOL, burnt out all its wiring from pickups to pcb, Havent been able to determine if the sound chip survived - factory fitted body never been off but as its 6 years old it isnt going to be a warranty job....have started replacing the wiring and keeping my fingers crossed. It looks like the pickup wire has rubbed through and shorted on the chassis block, but cant be sure. Had previously tried some weathering - with not brilliant results. But i guess practice makes perfect. Was using powders - which seemingly blew away when i applied a lacquer to seal. too close when spraying? 37s.jpg the 2 further away were weathered by others.. 410 was me... needs work. I found this really useful as i had no idea about weathering powders and how to apply them and this technique seems to work well forme .. https://youtu.be/TFGofuW_6aE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 Thanks for that video, it certainly shows me some areas I am going wrong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 Made a little bit of progress over the weekend ( as well as spending some cash at the Preston Show). Good news: 1. Found a box / parcel unopened post date 2011 - contents 1 x Loksound v4 Valenta. So both ends of my HST now make noise. 2. Corrected a couple of track defects that were causeing some poor running issues - particularly with Mk3 and Container traffic. 3. Idendified a couple more to fix shortly. 4. Fitted decoder to one end of my Voyager - so slights work now atr that end. Other end will be sorted when I am back from the US - Charlie is reblowing the "motion limited" decoder from the poorly 66 which will populate the other end. 5. Cured poor running of my 159 after a stripdown and lube service. 6. Fitted DCC bus suppressors. 7. Got a Zimo 645R with Paul Chetter 47 sounds for my DRS 237 - sounds pretty good with 2 "dumbo" speakers - need to tweak for more bass. Bad news: 1. 85 is still a write off. 2. 66 needs a sound chip - but there seems a proliferation of these going cheap on "the bay" 3. my 33 decided to shed a wheel - which was unexpected - and promptly vaulted off the board - so need new buffer / beam / nudge bar.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Wil follow this now,great work here so far Paul.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 Wil follow this now,great work here so far Paul.. Thanks, am in the U.S. this week so not really any updates but will be back on it next week.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 Back from the US - and have been working away on this. I need to take some pictures but a rough list of what has progressed: 1. 5 lines through my station are down. 2. the Depot/ stabing lines are in ( all 3 of them), the shed and wash plant are in place awaiting some scenic work. 3. 4 lines are in through dads station. 4. one of 12 train tech buffer lights deployed. Need some better buffer stops than the Hornby plastic ones. run out of droppers doh! also found a stowaway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 Here is a very rough track plan - not to scale... I will do a better to scale version at some point.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamphillip Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 this layout is huge Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 Yep, it's borderline unmanageable on your own with manual points. On DC it would be hell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamphillip Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 Yep, it's borderline unmanageable on your own with manual points. On DC it would be hell. I wish I had the space and money to make something like it, but I'm currently working on my inner city layout Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 I need to do a north bank track plan too. That's actually less than half... we must be crazy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 Did a bit of work on the local out sourced train maintainer RBEL's relocated shed and apron... need to find the bloody concrete paint now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 A rare view along the north bank: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted March 21, 2017 Author Share Posted March 21, 2017 Calculated today that the outermost loop utilising the furthest route almost into the as yet hidden yard in the bottom of the "L" shaped loft is somewhere in the region of 110ft in length which in my book means 8360ft scale or just over 1.58miles.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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