Andrew P

Hey Guys, have a look at Johns (Allegheny1600) Windley, Derbyshire, he's seen the light, hhahahhaaaa.

John, how about North Cornwall with China Clay out of Boscarne Junction and the like, from Wadebridge and above.

Have a look at Ray's (Tender) Camel Quay, or going the other way, Westerhamstation's Westerham Station for some wonderful track and scenics.

I can't believe I posted in Kirkby Luneside this morning predicting this would happen, ahhah

And that was tongue in cheek.

Not YOU as well!!??

 

Maybe you and Bodge should both get your crystal balls out and tell us what you see.

 

For example. I'd like to know if I'll end up setting my S&C baseboard level at 60".

 

Can you be of assistance oh Poltergeist-seeker Peters and Mystic-magi McManus?           

 

Jeff

Jeff, just be careful on what you wish for.

Oh sorry, you said crystal, hhahahhah

Morning Andy, the wiring looked like spaghetti (as John Cleese said in an ad. last century!) until you got started! A lesson to anyone starting out. However would you manage to trace a fault in that tangle? Is that a 'loose screw' in post 60? HaHaHa as someone would say!! Have a good day,

Kind regards,

Jock67B.

Hi Jock, cheers mate, no its not a lose screw, its a much to blooming big screw, and will be changed shortly.

The wiring is now almost sorted, I think I have blown one street lamp and I want to add some Platform Lamps later as well.

By the time you come back Jeff will probably have moved, and be ordering a rain forest of trees.

Jim will have made a whole forest of trees for Jeff to eat into.

Mick will be controlling the axis of the Universe from his mission control centre.

Rob will have Bulleid everyone to death.

Chris will have the worlds first 3D layout up and running.

John will have seen the light and SOLD all his American and German stock and be doing a Southern Layout based in the Weald of Kent in 1938.

Shaun will be doing his best to grubby his layout enough to be Grim up North.

James will have taken over Lego World and starting a Franchise.

Paul will see the light and change his tag to LMS Forever.

Scott will have us drooling over Stockrington once more.

Jock will be claiming Scottish independence and severing all rail links south of the border.

And finally Jason will have built the Bacup Extension.

O.K. I exaggerated about Jason's one, hahhaha

Oh and I will be wondering if I'm moving or not. :no: :no:

That's a cracking pic above and also it shows the Blue Grey coach in the formation nicely.

So much scope for big scenery on a Station like that.

Wonderful.

As and when you get the chance can you pop up a bit of the scenery here and there for a look at...

Morning Jaz, Yes I will do, the boards on its side at the mo whilst I tidy the wiring up, but yes, I certainly want to add some more of the scenic pics on here.

Hi Andy, the DCC conversion is progressing nicely. Re the Kadee's, I'd try grinding away some thickness of the baseboard with something like a Dremel (or a small router if you can get one in) from the underside for the magnets. Or you could consider some of the neodymium magnets as used by CambrianCoaster on his layout Pwllheli http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/60560-pwllheli-next-stop/?p=950234

which I copied on CQ.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/67862-camel-quay-a-north-cornwall-inspired-layout-in-4mm/?p=1265432

 

They're very much less obvious than the between tracks magnets.

Ray.

Morning Ray, I know I answered this last nigh, but, I've just had a quick look and my Dremel is packed away in a box in storage (I hope) so it will have to be the Stanley Knife and chisel.

Cheers, if all else fails it may have to your other method.

Hi Andy, the DCC conversion is progressing nicely. Re the Kadee's, I'd try grinding away some thickness of the baseboard with something like a Dremel (or a small router if you can get one in) from the underside for the magnets. Or you could consider some of the neodymium magnets as used by CambrianCoaster on his layout Pwllheli http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/60560-pwllheli-next-stop/?p=950234

which I copied on CQ.

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/67862-camel-quay-a-north-cornwall-inspired-layout-in-4mm/?p=1265432

 

They're very much less obvious than the between tracks magnets.

Ray.

Nice idea Ray, I 'll look into that mate.

Regards to Polly.

What's going on Andy??? I'm gone building layouts for little layout company and the whole world has gone mad and your buying layouts ??

Has mr bogde gone mad??

 

Seriously though it does look like a nice layout and I look forward to seeing get your stamp on it

Cheers Neil, it is nice and now that the wiring is almost sorted on the first board I'm a lot happier.

Next big job I guess will be the Kadee Magnets, I have some of the big under track ones. I have tried them under the board, they work but there weak, so its either in track ones like I had on Glen Roy or cut away some baseboard, and hoping not to damage the track or ballast.

Thanks for looking and posting. 

So after tracing some more wires back through the looms, grey to white, back to grey and a blue for the other one, I decerned that they might just be for the lights.

So I very gingerly disconnected one and using the resistor I connected it to the track feed.

You can guess what happened next

Well shock and  disbelief

It Worked

I then connected the buffers and the rest of the street lamps.

And BINGO  it worked.

So now instead of loads of wires it will be just two to the track feed, and so far two to the controller.

Next job, order the Points accessory Modual tomorrow.

Hi and evening all, I have managed to sort out the track wiring this evening and had my first Loco running all over the Main Board.

There are just 3 end on feeds so that was easy, but I may just and put some extra feeds in later as with the points, they can only be worked in a set formula for doing the crossover, its no real problem just something I can alter at my leisure later.

Please excuse the big screw in pic 3, all the rest are packed SOMEWHERE.

Again the white plug is temporary until I have finished testing.

Hi Andy,

 

That resembles Chocolate Block Bolognaise, lovely

What time are you coming down to sort it out? hahhahaaa

Shenston Road is Greg's (1047 as he's referenced in Paul's OP - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/user/877-d1047/), Paul's part of the same group and has posted some images on his behalf. It's a layout which makes the modelling fingers itchy; exceptional stuff.

Andy I needed a Thanks for info tick and an I agree tick for this one mate.

Hi Al, you said you'd been up to something and I missed this earlier, it just wonderful to actually see trains running after all the hours of work you've put in on the buildings.

A truly magic moment.

Re the back wall, I think  a blue board for now and a proper backscene as funds permit, its not going to stop the trains running, and that's the priority, DCC and Running.

guys ,

if you google " EM gauge 1970s" there's a website with this any many more banger blue EM top drawer stuff

Thanks for that, a great site, but it says the Layout is by a Greg Brookes?

Come on Jason, more pics please, that will give more responses and maybe get you to 100 pages before the 18th.

PAUL,   Why oh why have you been keeping this from us, I need to see a track plan and more pics for a fix please, it looks just wonderful.

Thanks for posting.

Yeah thanks for that Clive, Nuff said I think!!!!!!!

Don't mention the C word, we haven't even got a date yet. :nono:

Hi JK, loved the vids and some great pics of Goathland and your take on it, which is pretty dammed impressive.

Go Go Gall. :locomotive: :locomotive: :locomotive:

Cabinets

 courtesy of Markus37

Relay cabinet

 

​Now I thought I had cabinets, but it appears a cabinet is not a cabinet.As for the rust I could understand it on the hinges starting on the edge, but here it has broken out in the middle , and it looks like some repaint touch up has occurred already in the past. So a nice picture for colour reference.

Maybe heat is generated inside from the electrics?

My advice with using an accessory module is to provide a seperate power supply to the module to drive the point motors if you can it avoids putting too much drain on the main DCC supply.  You may be alright on a small layout but if you are using sound etc. the demands on the supply can be quite high ( odd diseasels ticking over on shed etc.). If you are using Cobalts or Tortoise the current demand is low and a seperate supply is not needed. I suspect you have a old transformer/controller somewhere.

Don

Cheers Don, I have a Gaugemaster T1 with the normal 16v AC out, I have this in a seperate box and just plug into the baseboard so that I can use it on any Layout at any time. I have used it befoe now come to think of it with the Peco Motors and the GM accessory decoder.

This will save replacing all the point motors and I can use the 7 TT300 motors I have  (at £22.50 each) for TLGP.

Thanks Don.

SORTED. :locomotive:

I agree Don, especially now with CAD Drawing etc, its so quick compared to the old days of just a couple of years ago.

O.K. in my opening gambit one thing I mentioned was the state of the wiring, and that's the first thing to address.

All the existing wiring will be removed, I will then have a better idea of what's what.

I will concentrate on the track to begin with, and once that's wired and tested then it will be the points.

Next will be the Signal and Buffer Lights and lastly the Street Lamps and Van Head Lights.

Here is what I have at the moment.

And the Control panel which I probably wont use anyway.

Sorry about the quality as the first few were taken with the board up side down.

Just need to.

Un Bodge