johna

This is really sad news. I have been communicating with Jack since the early days of MTI. Often by phone but more recently by email. Helped me a lot with coming up with track plans for a number of my layouts. Jack I will miss you.☹️

I am looking for 2 40' boxcars(road name unimportant) around £10 each hopefully with Kadee's fitted. Only thing is i need yhem posted on Monday for an exhibition next weekend.

Thanks.

Folks

What's the best material to use for a road going over track. IE Clay , filler, cardboard

Thanks

Johna

All sorted folks. Thanks.

I am building an inglenook layout using a Peco code 75 RH and LH point but my question is will i have to use plastic rail joiner anywhere or can i just fit metal ones?. I do intend to fit point motors and micro switches.

Johna

Thanks for putting up the photod.

Thanks Peter. Looking forward to seeing them

Johna

Picked up a copy today and enjoying a read. I like the idea of a layout for under £200 but i could not see an overall photo of the track plan and a shot of yhe finished layout. Also it would be an idea maybe to explain how to operate the layout especially if a beginner

Johna

I have printed of a few track templates to give me an idea that the layout will look using peco points

Thanks for the link. I am away to print them out now.

In issue 113 of MTI Graham Weller reminisced about a 4'x1' he built using Fleischman's 3 way plus a RH and LH point. I always liked the track plan so i hoping to use it for my proposed new layout. Only difference is that i will be using peco code 100 insulated 3 way point. And two settract points. (If you want to see a track plan then go to wynmann.info and you will find it unding the Shunting Layouts section. By this time the layout had been owned by Dave Howells.)

I hope the 3 way point is reliable and i can still fit everything unto a 4' X 1' board. I intend to order the 3 way tonight.

Hi

Does anyone have any experience using a Peco SL-99 3 way point please? Are they reliable and any special wiring requires ect. I will be using if for am American HO layout. In the past I have had no issues with US locos and insulated points.

I have been given a couple of 40' boxcars without any wheelsets. Anywhere in the UK that sells them. Would metal ones be best or do they interact with Kadee couplers?

Just looking at your wonderful layout Paul. I see you are using settrack points but do you find at problems with Loco stalling etc

Johna

Same as from a desktop: go to Reply with attachments (below bottom RH corner of reply box, next to the Post button , select a tile from photos, upload and insert.

We look forward to some photos!

I have now added sky blue to the back scene and will be fitting point motors yhi week.

I have over the years used Settrack points on a number of layouts with few problems as i like the ruggedness of them. In fact my latest US switching layout will have points that i hsve had for 20 years.

Just wondering if anyone else is using them today?

Johna

Just reading this thread

Question. Could the piano line work fot an American HO layout within 5'?

I had forgotten about this layout but as it has just reappeared as i am about to enter tbe world of DCC.I must check my wood store to see if i have enough materials to build something similar.

Looking forward to see it again Jack.

Again guys thanks for the advice. The select is old so its firmware may need updating butbit it only costs £15 I may get it. I do know thati t has limited functions but i dont require sound etc and would only have a maximum of 3 locos on the layout at any one time.

Interesting views folks. I also have the opportunity to get a Bachmann EZ controller. I will see if i can borrow them both to try them out. Bavhmann seems to get better reviews

Would this be worth buying for £20 to enter the world of DCC?. To be using on a shunting layout with two locos on the tracks at the same time

I built this a few years ago after Colins layout appeared in RM

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1911992839045598?view=permalink&id=2133108123600734

Interesting. I've been toying with a similar idea for a small club stand layout on a four foot by one foot board and I think I can just fit it in using Peco medium points

 

David's EP rules.jpg

It's not an original plan. Chris Krupa built something very similar in 009 called Minbury Abbas and I've seen an 0e quarry layout with the same basic plan.

I've laid it out on the board and it just fits with these rules while providing work for a main line loco (diesel or small tender loco) that brings five wagons in and a small shunting loco that only works the yard. With shorter British wagons it could probably handle rather more.

 

Though it's slightly different, you might also find the plan of the real Valmont silo here http://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/standard-gauge-lines/

useful.

Although the real location was a local grain silo shunted using capstans, a small industrial loco could easily work it instead and they were quite common for industrial set ups like this in many countries where they never ventured onto the main line. It was long closed when I found it but I think the operating pattern at Valmont would be typical of many private sidings where the local pick-up goods picks up full wagons from the exhange siding closest to the main line and then drops off some empties. The points connecting the industrial yard to the main line are then closed and the industrial loco shunts them one or two at a time for loading then leaves them for the main line loco to pick-up..

I know it's a very old topic but I have just found the above track plan and was wondering if someone could help me with a wiring diagram for it as I will be using Peco electofrog points etc.

Thanks Johna