steve4rosegrove

Err, in JVol96 the 2-6-4T looks to me to have a Stanier cab and tapered bunker?

Wow your modelling output is still phenomenal! Hope that you have a great time at the show and get the attention that the layout deserves. Steve

Just for accuracy, it's Fairburn. Love the photos.

Errr it that the same thing as a Derby Lightweight? Steve

I wonder if using only 1-off corridor connector per gap would enable closer coupling and a more realistic gap? Still looks infinitely better than no connector at all of course. Loving this thread. Steve

As you're DCC would it be practical to pick up juice for the lamps from the track?

Errrr, pedantry time, but it was Faiburn.....great photos though

That's taken as read, but still no answer as to maximum length without a compensator. I cannot find my reference material.

More gibberish.

I note that the brickwork recognises the internal wall but I wonder if 9' walls rather than 41/2" would have been used? i.e. English or Flemish bond i.l.o. stretcher / garden wall bond? Super research and photo interpretation by the way. Steve

Hardly

Ships pass port to port, so the logo on Teal is correct as an overhead view of 2 ships passing?

The stiffest (in respect of resisting bending) will be the rib with the tallest section possible i.e. instead of 2 x 1 a piece of 4 x ½ would be much better in resisting the bend / sag. Forget the steel (unless it's very deep) and perhaps try a 6" or 9" strip of 9 m.m. ply. I have used board sides of 4 m.m. ply around 9" deep for boards 4' to 5' long and they don't bend longitudinally. Diagonal bracing (also 4 m.m. thick) resists twisting and supports the 6 m.m. track base. The sides and braces have a small flange 10 m.m. x 4 m.m. along the bottom edge to keep them straight. Steve

The Escort might be a rally car - there's lots of 'em so a good shell, 2 door is valuable

Although the nose of the wire part of the couplings is similar, I do not think that they are Alec Jackson couplings. There is not a horizontal loop / bar or curved 'lifter' in Alec's design as far as I know.