Jon Grant 4472

Sweethome Alabama has been sitting unused in the cellar for almost 10 years. As part of my cellar tidy up, I've been salvaging parts for several future projects. I'm breaking up the baseboards, which will go to the council tip and the electrical components, buildings, trees and scenic bits will be used again on smaller, lighter, easier to transport layouts. Part of the layout, a small timber yard, has been retained as a small Inglenook-style shunting layout, which will be updated and improved as a small, self contained exhibition layout

My OO gauge Inglenook, Metcalfe Rd in black and white

Hi Neil. Back with a bang and full of ideas. Is that a Minerva Victory? Looks massive

A few more photos from Metcalfe Rd

One of the industrial locos (Minerva Peckett E with dcc and sound) and a tank wagon (unidentified brass kitbuild). Both photographed on my 4mm layout, Metcalfe Rd

Thanks Amanda. I'm using electromagnets in locations where I don't want to uncoupling every time I pass over and small neodymium magnets in areas where uncoupling is required every time.

Thanks Andy. I'm really having fun with the increased level of detail in O gauge wagons

I have been collecting O gauge models and kits for about 2 years now and consider that i now have enough stock to start a small shunting layout, based loosely on a branch off the Newcastle and Carlisle route during the 1930s. It is intended that there will be one mainline loco and one industrial in steam on the layout. These are the mainline locos I currently have available, fitted with dcc and sound. The jinty is a rtr Dapol loco and the others are kitbuilt in brass or whitemetal. All stock will use Dingham auto uncoupling. Watch this space

During a modelling hiatus, I started building Metcalfe card buildings to keep my hand in and regain my modelling mojo. By November 2020, I had more than enough buildings and stock to populate a small Inglenook-style layout. Less than a year later the layout was in an exhibitable form but it took another year to add all the details I wanted to include. Exhibited 5 times in 2022, it has also featured in one of the Model Rail magazines. I now consider it pretty much done and am now working on a small O gauge layout. Watch this space

Love the cobbles Wonder what Mr Wright would make of the nice clean Rutland car Jon

Shame about Twin Falls. I enjoyed watching it at Barrow. The new layout is already looking the part Jon

BN bought a load of old GP35s and GP30s, re-engined them and called them GP39-Es, GP39-Ms and GP39-Vs, depending on where the rebuilding work was done. I have done a couple, as seen in this vido Jon

AnyRail Manual has just printed out- I printed 4 pages to a sheet to save ink, so may need a magnifying glass. Now to have a bit read and then a play http://www.anyrail.com/index_en.html Jon

Thanks for the information. I'll give 'Anyrail' a go. I have one of the old Cadrails but never got the time to play with it or the time to read the humungous book of instructions. Jon

Love this photo, Mal. I must get myself a plastic pellets siding Jon