Sasquatch

Are you talking about the baseboards or the join between my palm and fingers?

There's another 2 combinations BC 80326/7 BT4 86997-Loco. The brake comps could very easily be made from the Kirk kit driving trailer and a pair of extra first class sides, when Cooper Craft get their injection molding machine up and running I might put in an order!

I knew I had seen this somewhere and saved the article by Steve Banks from Model Rail Nov 2005. (99.9% of my magazine collection resides in Belgium). Steve quotes a normal service would be BT4 and CL or BT4 & BC2/4. Two diagram D.118s (BC2/4s) were converted for the Craigendoran-Arrochar service becoming D.318s numbers SC80326E & SC80327E. And (from what I can make out ) One diagram D.65 (BT4) becoming diagram D.317 number SC86983E. Lav Comp diagram D.50 number 88024 was the only such carriage converted for push pull working. On market days and Saturdays the train would be strengthened with an extra BC2/4. Note that all the driving trailers faced the same way!!!!!. Thus the train could be one of 7 combinations. BT4 86997-CL 88024-Loco BT4 86997-BC 80326/7-Loco BT4 86997-CL 88024-BC 80326/7-Loco BC 80326/7-BT4 86997-CL 88024-Loco Driving Trailer BT4 E86997E which had the Fox bogies was used on the St. Combs branch but transferred to the NE area in 1943!! . There is a pic of it at Blyth during May 1958. It also only had one set of jumper cables on the outer end and one side window on the left!!. Anyone fancy building A brake composite? Shaun, Mines a pint.

Thanks Kal , I took my time building Dunster and it has some great features which make it a joy to operate, like lit lamps in the working signals and my home spun uncoupling system. All the buildings were made from Wills Craftsman and Hornby kits. All these features need installing on Goathland huh. The class 16 is a funky looking engine more American in appearance if anything although it runs like a dream with bright lamps its a bit slow not being any faster than Bachmanns 08 Gronks. Will google them to see whether or not this is prototypical. The models best feature is that the slowness allows for the lamps to stay lit while loco is stationary. One thing for sure is that Heljan did a better job than the North British Locomotive Company!

They aren't new having been pulled off of a layout and were a bit grubby and tarnished, so I spent an evening with the hot lemon, honey and whiskey on the go and set about getting then up to standard. With my dear stalker cap on I have deduced that the layout was scrapped due to the fish plates having been soldered on. This would not allow expansion in hot weather causing the rails to buckle!! I like the fact that these points have nickel silver check rails and are all live frog except for the double slip. I cut all the fish plates off with Xuron cutters and trimmed away all the unwanted gubbins with my mate Stanley! Electrical conections were scrubbed with a burnishing pencil and the rails with a Peco track rubber. The two at bottom haven't received the treatment yet. Not bad for 44 pence each!

With help from Jaz's topic page, I just ordered a set of schoolboys and schoolgirls to modify into Hogwarts students"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mcy-Ef09KY8/TnNzHcb6vjI/AAAAAAAAADg/Z9f1-S13jf4/s1600/qth2ehzei1z3z1z.jpg" 'http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Mcy-Ef09KY8/TnNzHcb6vjI/AAAAAAAAADg/Z9f1-S13jf4/s1600/qth2ehzei1z3z1z.jpg" That one to the right of the teacher has Tom Riddle about him and far right Ronald Weasley!

" Nick able",.....= Good for an easy heist! Sounds like you're going on a fun tour with the layout Clay! Was thinking of getting a trailer after borrowing my father-in-laws when we moved. It would make life much easier when it comes to hauling cabinets and machines about!

We have been spending the end of this week dealing with temperatures of -15 and 6” of snow. However I have found time to squeeze my other layout Dunster (link at bottom) into one of our attic rooms. I say squeeze because the room is 16’ wide at baseboard height. Dunster is 16’ in its original form but needs an inch or two to enable it to go together. After giving it a tart up and doing a few repairs I will get out the photography equipment and try to do it some justice. When I am done playing with that new Heljan class 16 that is, which could be some time!

Only two known examples of D-shaped 2150 gallon tank wagons were built. Number 1460 was built by the M&GNJR at Melton Constable in 1913. It survived in revenue earning stock up until the 1980s having spent most of its working life running between Sheffield and Immingham. A special feature of this wagon was the experimental discharge system employed by the hirer to speedily empty its contents directly into use without the need for transfer to a storage tank, the Compressed Overflow Liquefaction & Resistance Outlet Nozzle or COLRON for short.

If you can afford it a belt sander with variable speed will be very useful. For instance putting miters on the edges of wills sheets can be done with a slow speed as it won't melt the plastic. I clamp mine to the edge of the bench upside down. Orbit sanders can damage your wrist. In fact any vibrating tool will. A belt sander should come into its own if you plan to make baseboards and as Allan has pointed out hand sanding is best for smaller tasks.

It looks like 67460 is pulling the train, so an additional BG wouldn't be a problem. I've a picture somewhere of a push pull working (albeit southern) with addition to the train being pulled, where as the regular passenger stock is being pushed so that the locomotive is placed in the middle of the train. Ventnor West IOW I seem to recall! Also interesting in this pic is the use of express head lamps. I'm assuming that's not one forward white lamp and one red tail lamp as practice required the removal of lamps not in use!

Double jumper cables and what look like over sized buffers but (excuse my ignorance) What was the through pipe for? Or is that a through air pipe for air brakes added for the departmental use noted by way of the label clip and brake lever. Regards Shaun

At the annual Rogue Valley Model Railroad show this weekend I had the pleasure of meeting Dale Edwards founder of Kadee couplers. He is now well into his 90s and maintains all his faculties. It was a shame that he didn't get to see the layout as I remember last year he did like Dunster. Whilst on the prowl for deals on track I was offered a box of second hand rails for $15 which on inspection at home was found to contain no less than 22 Shinohara live frog turnouts. What a smoking hot deal!

We have to live with some of these cretins. They drive past our house in their 4x4 pimpout trucks and have the ####### cheek to wave at me. Oh what I'd do to be able to round them up and put them in a field and bomb the crap out of them. Have not seen a bear in these parts although I know that they are there. I've not seen cougar either although come to think of it I believe I did and there were cougar prints in the flower beds at the rental by the lake where we used to live . Did you know that the local authority hand out 100s of bear permits each year and the tossers brag about having one. The cops got called out one night in Ashland to deal with a cougar which had taken up residence in the city. Much to the disbelief of all the residence it was shot. That was one brave cop wasn't it. As far as the big feet are concerned. There is a place called prospect on hwy62 which has the highest amount of recorded reports of Sasquatch sightings and activity in the state. After seeing the footprints our selves we reported them. I later received a phone call from a professor who asked a lot of questions and told me that 62 people mostly hunters have gone missing in the prospect area over the last 30-40 years. That's a lot of folks for a place with a population of less than a 1000. We have not been back to Lost Creek Lake for a hike since.

Go back to pages 1,2 &3 where it shows ( not too clearly) how I did it. In hind sight making adjuster blocks between the ribs and track surface would have helped and allowing for the thickness of the cork underlay would have made the platforms higher, my biggest blunder!!

If you are going to include the gradient through the station it will need some serious calculating. This is due to the Skaledale coal drops and lime pens being of the correct height! Any compromise on platform length or change in gradient will affect the road surface around the goods area! Also what goes up must come down. That's why there is a curve and gradient on my viaduct. Pure luck the way it turned out. Watching the trains on it is the best feature of the whole layout. The three tracks on my girder bridge are the summit. The goods siding slopes very gently towards the goods shed. The camping coach sidings remain level. The coal cell siding is rather steep and the main line drops at 1in 50 (I think) with a cant and that lovely gentle curve. To help with all this I made a 1/1 scale drawing in OO on a sheet of chip board. From what I see on your Arboretum Valley thread it appears too late for open frame boards? Hope this helps.

Hi Kal. Yes mate all peco standard code100. except the double slip under the road bridge which is code75 as the code100 one isn't much cop. I'm fully aware that this should be a single slip but I wanted to shunt one train while the other was passing on the viaduct end if you get my drift. It doesn't show as its under that bridge. Wish I had included two catch points as well, especially now our layout is receiving so much attention. Here you go.... Edit... Tis not clear in this pic but there are two curved points here. Both the manual siding ones!!! You may also have noticed that the peco motor mounts have been trimmed orff giving a finer look. I use Gaugemaster SEEP motors and hot glue them in place! I even recall hot gluing peco switches under/on top of them to help with frog polarity. Tis all live frog BTW

Preserved standard mogul number 76079 arrives at Goathland light engine.

Is there room for a fence in front of it? If so fill the void with weeds and rusting junk! There would likely have been a fence as all railway property in Great Britain must be fenced by law!

And for those who aren't interested in the electrical side, here are a couple more of the village scene. It's bloody cold here today and I'm being a whimp about it, so must get dressed up and get outside and do something.

So I thought some of you might like to see the guts. Pics 1&2 show the connection between the station and bridge boards. Pic 3 the double slip wiring with atlas solenoid switch. The last two are of the control panel which can be mounted on the back or front of the layout. Note the wiring loom and gammy hand.

Just for the record I've never drank shandy in my life and lived in Helgium for seven years where the beer will see any larger lout into the gutter well before 11. Hell some of the bars don't even open till then!

We were affectionately known by our friends from up north as "Dirty Shandy Swillin Southerners" or words to that effect! The pints up there come in 24oz straight glasses and I can remember the ribbing we got when two blokes from Normanton were served 20oz in jugs one weekend. Not pleasant!! A couple of weeks back we found ourselves in one of those theme pubs over here in Ashland. It felt like I was in a Robin Hood film set. The bar staff were doing their very best to put on British accents. So I piped up "A flagan of your finest ale serf". To which I herd someone say "oh , A real English accent". The pint was a 16oz Black Butte porter, not bad stuff but 16oz. I ask you......