Patrick SPF

Last years GMRC winning layout "City of Tiers" all ready to go And Craig an Torry all ready to go

Hills country all packed and ready for setup in the morning

Three more layouts

Bachmann USA is a good start, also try the NMRA here in the UK they may know someone who can help

Photos of Loch End and St Adrian...

Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October At Hallmark Hotels Aberdeen, Previously the Dyce Skean Dhu, Dyce, Aberdeenshire AB21 7DW SAT 10am-5pm & SUN 10am-4pm Layouts include: City of Tiers - The GMRC winning layout from the first series Craig an Torry - OO modern image Tyock Junction - OO S & CD MRC - OO Fourdon Model Railway Club OO Hills Country - US N gauge Dunallander 2mm fine scale Callaton 2mm fine scale St Adrian - Z gauge Loch End - O gauge Plus a further two layouts one in OO and the other P4 Trade: Squires Tools Mackenzie Models The Junction Box KMS Railtech Buckie Model Centre Lathalmond Models Societies: Keith & Dufftown Railway Aberdeen Transport Society

The Thamesiders in Essex also have N scale modules and there is a N scale group in Felixstowe as well

Depending on where you are there are at least three NMRA groups that have N gauge modular groups that may be of interest.

A few photos from the show, taken first thing Sunday morning. Craig an Torry Wickham Bishops Clucas Bay 2nd Hand Yard Morven Terminal Strömstad

All set up and ready to go for the morning...

Just finished packing Strömstad for the Aberdeen Show this weekend

Just a reminder that the Aberdeen MRC show is this coming weekend, one of the layouts coming is Wickham Bishops:

Aberdeen Model Railway Club is hosting its 39th Annual Exhibition this month at the Hallmark Hotel in Dyce (AB21 7DQ) on October 27th - 28th. 10am to 5pm Saturday and 10am to 4pm Sunday Trade Stands: Squires Junction Box Callander Toy Museum Buckie Model Centre MacKenzie Models Cameron Ross KMS Railtech Society's: Keith and Dufftown Railway Great North of Scotland Railway Association Ferryhill Railway Heritage Trust The Royal Deeside Railway Layouts: Aberdeen Model Railway Club Craig an Torry 00 gauge AMRC Demo 00 gauge Clucas Bay 00 gauge Wickham Bishops 00 gauge Strömstad HO gauge Duncan MaCrae Jedward 00 gauge Fourdon Model Railway Club Dugtin 00 gauge Perth and District Model Railway Club Albury 00 Gauge Falkirk Model Railway Club Caron Grove N gauge East Neuk Model Railway Club Morven Terminal N Gauge John Moore Lillesdorf N Gauge 2mm Association 2mm Demo Elgin Model Railway Club Glebe Street 0 Gauge Arry Dodd 2nd Hand Yard 0 Gauge Tickets: Adult £6 Children £3.00 Concession £5 Family (2 Adults, 3 Children) £15.00 Under 3's Free

The Swedish Y6 type were in design inspired by the HNJ NOHAB railbusses, which were an answer by NOHAB to the popular Hilding Carlsson railbusses of the 1930's. Both Hilding Carlsson and Marstaverken produced similar steel rail busses in the late 1940's however the Y6 class are a SJ design and were built by a number of builders.

I believe that there were drawings in Allt om Hobby in the past and possibly in other Swedish magazines. Please pm me if you would like me to have a look Patrick

Another and very visible difference between US and Canadian practice was the regulation on hygene grounds that stock cars had to be whitewashed for hygiene reasons - hence the white lower sides of Canadian stock cars.

Many of the Class 1 railroads in the past leased / sold surplus or out dated power to various short lines and there are a number of models which are "classic" short line locos in the early diesel era the Bachmann 44tonner being the most common, as they were in a class where less crew were required and as many industries liked locos in this class they were relatively cheap to buy.

North American spurs can just end in the dirt somewhere, sometimes a couple of old sleepers are used as a wheel stop and there are something called wheel stops which are a device bolted to the track ( https://www.shapeways.com/product/XWZARFY94/wheel-stops-ho-20-pack-c83 ). . Track bumpers (buffer stops) as far as I can tell are mainly used where coming off the track could be embarrassing such as on to a highway or down an embankment. Patrick

Jerry, In terms of locomotives and even more cabooses North American railroads tended to use their own power, though from the late 50's (I believe) you began to get run through diesel power. The other thing that does happen is that locos can be leased by another road such as the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad GP7's which were leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad every summer when the BAR did not need them and the PRR did. In terms of freight cars, they are all effectively in a common user pool, so can turn up almost anywhere, but would be most common on the owning railroad and direct connections. If you can get hold of a copy there is a NMRA book called "The Postwar Freight Car Fleet" it has a good sample of what was going through the Harrisburg Pennsylvania area in 1946/47, of interest is that there were still a lot of 36' cars in service at the time and some lasted for some time (Canadian Fowler box cars were in revenue service in Canada until the 1980;s). Patrick

You could try John Tiechmoller's book on PRR hoppers - Pennsylvania Railroad Steel Open Hopper Cars - A Guide for Enthusiasts for a detailed look at the class. Basic information is available at http://prr.railfan.net/freight/classpage.html?class=H21

Nick You could try this stencil from shapeways https://www.shapeways.com/product/LSTG9YTAC/railroad-crossing-template-ho?optionId=63326386&li=marketplace Patrick

Jamie, Why not try contacting the NMRA British Region, someone may well have something suitable - I had charge of a 1970's exhibition layout called 'Avery' for a few years, it is now in the Derby area. Patrick

The reason that we did not have that many trains running on the large American yesterday is that the DCC control bus decided to go down which we eventually managed to trace to a dry joint in a connector cable. Of course the fault only appeared yesterday during the show and not while we were testing the layout.....

Nick, Its a K's kit. For some reason they used to include it in the kit for the Swedish Z class shunter? Cheers Patrick