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Is anyone else having problems - neither myself, nor Swmbo can get on to either of them via Internet Explorer - each time it comes up with a message saying Internet Explorer has shut down - this has been going on for about a week now - I'm using Windows 8 and my wife's laptop is Windows 7

WOOP-de- DOO! I've just seen a retro-fitted Beemer - It has after-market INDICATORS, and the driver has discovered how to use them!

Paul - did this ever go any further?

Just a small thought - as you suggest, add an overbridge at the left, but pt a mirror at the end of the track and you'll (apparently) extend your layout - just make sure that you get the mirror at a 90° angle to the track and it will go on into the distance - especially if you can get a front-silvered mirror.

Mine is currently on hold (about 2°C outside in the garage) but I'm planning to use a 50mm diameter plastic pot from SWMBO, that held lip balm, with a very small handle which will be inset (with a Forstner bit) into the fascia - all my Lego Technic has come from ebay,(more than enough) and the un-screwable,rotating cover will have a modified bit of Lego representing a padlock on it. I did think of trying the padlock idea - but decided it takes up more room than will fit into the box. Also in progress is yet another modified back scene and then I shall start making the fence, and a railing to go around the top of a tank.

Now that is interesting - thank you

Thanks, Paul

Jordan - re the working gates - take a look at Thomas Klimoskis Youtube channel if you haven't already seen it - an excellent "How To...." - I only know because I'm in the middle of the same thing on an uprated "Fiddlestick Yard Job" - this link takes you there https://www.thomasklimoski.com/how-to

Thanks very much, fellers - must admit that I thought the question might cause offence - some people get upset VERY easily!

So here in the Land of the Midnight Haggis we've had sun, wind, and SNOW - that lasted all of five minutes at our level - but the cnocs (hills) out the back have their tops covered! - Winter has come back!

A look around here may give you some ideas for "Stage settings" https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+Michlap+railroad+paintings&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-Address&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCn_rx7_TgAhWOTBUIHQtaClYQ_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=911 As an example I thought " maybe loose the Steamer on the left and get boxing" Another that might be a possible source http://samuel-michlap.blogspot.com/2007/10/its-been-too-long-is-anyone-out-there.html ...and if you'd really like to see some more ideas, try galleries 4 & 5 on this page http://www.samuelmichlap.com/index.html

I suddenly thought of possible inspiration for a cake box layout - not planning to use it at the moment - too much to do and not enough years left - but in the states there is an artist called Samuel Michlap who works for Disney - many of his works are Fantasy, but he also paints (US) trains -I've had several of them on my desktop background - and it may be worth looking on Google for some ideas - I see several that would work with cut down dummy body shells etc. Just a thought that might provide some ideas. TBH the thought struck me after reading Keith Addenbrookes (sp??) 49th Street Bridge post

Not sure why - but the only problem I have noticed is that occasionally the "View new content" picks up apparently erroneous/anomalous items - see the one right in the middle below

If you are building a traverser the main thing to remember is that the rails on which it slides MUST, MUST, MUST be parallel - I can't emphasise that enough! when I built Shortover Yard (along with a couple of others )with a sliding traverser track that connected three parallel tracks. It was built on a spare piece of thin MDF with flat-bottomed, U shaped, K&S brass channels glued to the underside, which slid along two old bits of rail - these also supply the power to the track(s) on the traverser. Unless both the rails and the brass channel are exactly square and parallel, you will get jamming when you try to move it. GUESS HOW I KNOW THIS! The photo was taken with a very chep and nasty camera with it standing on the traverser under the roadbridge that covered the traverser

Request please - this may be something I have missed in a previous post, but I would greatly appreciate more details - I have used modified dice (dies?) previously on an earlier laout, but it would be interesting to see your version

....and just yesterday, I saw a post on TrainOrders.com, saying that in Texas the temperature was 80°F+ ! It is only when you see posts that tell you that the Twin Cities is minus something silly, that you start to realise how BIG the USA really is.

Changing the subject slightly, but to do with USA track-plans, I came across this on FB and thought It may solve some shelf layout problems, so I have copied it across. . As he says, it could be modelled without compression, but on the other hand compression will not cause too many problems - I did a quick check and the straight parts of the spurs hold 3/3/5 cars in that order from the main - almost Inglenook proportions! If you look closely at the industries on Bing Birdseye view, you will see that the spur can handle just about anything - indeed if you modelled a transload area at the right hand end on the track extension beyond Florida Potato......

Mick - not sure how big your project is - but in the Micro/Small layouts section on FB - I suggest a look at Dan Dossas "Hawkins Chemical" (link to overall picture) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2019103171515092&set=gm.773538876359892&type=3&theater , and if you have more space, look at Rob Chants latest International Pulp & Paper company suggestion ( link to trackplan) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218191546444741&set=oa.2173268196071670&type=3&theater which I have suggested could be an Up-rated version of Hawkins

I have a feeling that a couple more inches could be squeezed (squoze?) out of/into this by building it on a diagonal, with the right hand side being moved up into top right corner, and the left hand side moved down into the bottom corner - you never know when a couple more inches may be handy!

Me also - and right at the top we have a "View new content" to click on - easy peasy!

Mick - sorry for the late reply to this - but it has just popped up on my radar . Re Chemical works - have you seen Hawkins Chemical in the micro layouts section of FB? It may well be of interest for an individual section of your freemo ideas " https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=hawkins chemical layout&epa=SEARCH_BOX " loose the inverted commas - it was the only way I could get it to display

I like this, Mike - It has potential!

Ray, I don't know if you have had your MR April 2019 issue yet, But I had a call last night from Chris Ellis - to tell me that I Must get the April Issue - " there is a SUPERB model of the back end of New York in it on page 30" - his words , not mine . He raved on about how it was the best article in the magazine, and probably, in fact, in the last five years. When I told him that I knew you he asked me to tell you that it has inspired him - "I feel a new layout coming on!" He knows the area well, has walked it, and says you have caught it perfectly , to the extent that" ...I can almost smell it!" - high praise indeed from a fellow modeller and author - he asked me to pass on his congratulations

Dickon - another possible source of modelling for you - Sidi Fontana in OO9 - https://bigbluetrains.com/showthread.php?tid=7229&highlight=Franckcombe who is a French modeller, but might have some suggestions re availability of figures etc - I knew I had seen it but couldn't remember wheer - one of the disadvantages of getting older!

Dickon, hope it works out for you