lilchris

another couple of pics here showing the church yard and the corner cutting and the footbridge during construction.

Thanks les for your reply, I have made the platforms using Peco side walls with styrene tops with Metcalf card paving stones glued on top. I should have put some support in the centre of the wide section of the platform it has subsided slightly but it seems to look ok. Here is the latest pics of the Metcalfe footbridge which I have modded similar to Bury but without the flat roof, and the corner section walling.

The station module is based on Bury Bolton street but with a goods yard like the one at that used to be at Ramsbottom, so I am calling my station Ramsbury.I am planning a bridge at the one end of the board and a tunnel to cover the joints with the baseboards.I have already put a removeable road bridge over the joint from the viaduct to the corner module and I am quite pleased with the effect. I originally was going to make it so I could swap the two 3' modules round but it would have compromised the scenery too much and made it harder to plan. All the track is soldered too screws at the end of each board, I laid the track accross the join before cutting with a cutting disc. Some of the first cuts I made where the track goes from a corner module to the station module are a bit iffy ( I used the wrong size collet in the drill so it was a bit loose) and probably a bit big but I have had no problem running over them. Has I have posted earlier the station module is independant from the other boards, boards are connected together with jumper wires with sockets wired to the bus wires on each module.

here are a few of my more recent pics showing how the scenics and track are taking shape.

I decided to dismantel my old layout it was hard to work on having to crawl underneath was becoming a chore to fix the wiring. I have used the fiddle yard off the old layout and even managed to cut it down a little, it is still about 8'x18". I have then made modules two scenic ones are 3'x1' then two corner modules 2'x2' and the main station module is 4'x18". All are connected together with brass patternmakers dowels and catches,I only have two catches on the station board because of the shape so use two g clamps underneath. I am using dcc so I have made the station board completely independent of the the other modules electrically,seperate bus wires goto two psx circuit breakers for the module.All the other boards work off another psx and the fiddle yard off its own psx. I laid the track and made sure the electrics were working before ballasting then checking again. I have now started to work on some of the scenics, the viaduct from the old layout 1st which is on a 3' board which was made with a low centre for the viaduct. The other 3' board also has a low centre and is going to have a embankment. When all the boards are connected together I have a complete circuit, there are 9 tracks in the fiddle yard and a double track mainline completing the layout. A few pics will show the layout better than I can describe it.The last pic shows all the boards fitted together before I laid the track, fortunately I measurments were up to scratch and it all fitted togther has planned.

Super detail there on your layout I only wish I could model has good as that on my n-gauge layout, What track are you using ?, is it hand built it looks very realistic, I am using code 55.

Wow some good wood work there Maurits, and track laying, you seem to have plenty space I am envious.

Good another N-Gauge layout to follow,I will be watching this develope with interest.

I have a double slip and a single slip on my N-gauge layout using code 55 with live frogs. I was going to use a frogjuicer like someone else suggested but I changed the peco motors for cobalts and wired them accordingly. I could not believe how easy they were to wire, you just have to remember to wire the frogs to the opposite motor.