Hobby Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) This has been on-going for quite a while, it started when discussing Rabbit Layouts on NGRM and Giles Barnabe posting a link to an article he had written many years ago for a layout in 6ftx3ft6ins based on an imaginary country somewhere in Central Europe in H0e. The layout so inspired me that I set out to replicate it.. I bought the track and built some baeboards and then it all ground to a halt, the baseboards were too heavy and I couldn't get the track plan to work in the size (shades of CJ Freezer's plans!) and the whole thing ground to a halt. Here's the initial track plan superimposed by my plan. As far as the initial layout got, at this point I just couldn't see it working... Edited October 21, 2022 by Hobby 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 So the baseboards were broken down, the track lifted and stored and things went on a back burner. In the meantime I got some baseboards by Grainge and Hodder and was impressed by the light weight and thought that this may be the way forward, enthusiasm was rekindled and I went out and bought two 8x4 sheets of 6mm Birch Ply. One thing I had noticed from Giles's plan was that it just didn't seem workable in the size shown, after discussing it with him I concluded that the buildings suggested were more likely to have been 1:100 (H0/TT - current day Auhagen designation - back then Vero or similar) scale rather than true H0 ones as their footprints seemed very small, also I found it difficult to match the track layout. Strangely I recon it would work as it's shown in TTe (1:120 scale, 6.5mm gauge track) but I've moved out of that scale so it wasn't an option. So what I did was simplify it, it's designed to be operated as a continuous run with a branch, unlike the original which was designed as an out and back with full freight facilities, shunting, etc., which isn't really my style! New baseboards were built (Birch Ply really is very light!), track laid, wired up and I've just got as far as the initial test run: 11 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 Sorry, not been keeping this up to date! More photos: 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted May 10, 2022 Author Share Posted May 10, 2022 Slight change as I've added another tunnel on the lower line by the bridge, the cutting didn't "feel right"... 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 Latest: 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikLaurell Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 What difference a little green does! From snow-land to moon-land to a real earth country side. I like it a lot. How come you have so few team tracks and no loco station ? Henrik Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 The loco depot is at the terminus and I've not modelled that! Team tracks? Not sure what you mean. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted October 25, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Hobby said: The loco depot is at the terminus and I've not modelled that! Team tracks? Not sure what you mean. Team refers to a flatbed wagon and horses, drawn alongside the rail wagon for unloading. Team-track is a US term. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted October 26, 2022 Author Share Posted October 26, 2022 Ah, thanks! In answer to that, then, it's a present day setting and a passenger line, so no freight other than a train of wagons that heritage lines run sometimes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenrikLaurell Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 (edited) not easy for an none-englishman .. 🙂 read the word team-track somewhere and it stuck.. what's the british equal, side track maybe ? or goods load/unload track ? Henrik (born and living on the west-coast of Sweden) Edited October 26, 2022 by HenrikLaurell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, HenrikLaurell said: not easy for an none-englishman .. 🙂 read the word team-track somewhere and it stuck.. what's the british equal, side track maybe ? or goods load/unload track ? Henrik (born and living on the west-coast of Sweden) Hi Henrik. The team track was just a spare siding (in the US they'd call it a spur, I think) which was available for any customer to load / unload goods onto / off a railroad car, usually in smaller quantities as the team tracks did not have the dedicated load-handling equipment of the specialised spurs that might be found at an abattoir, sawmill, chemical plant etc. etc. Customers would pay the railroad for the use of the team track. As stated above, the name stems from the teams of horses used to pull the customers' wagons in the days before motor vehicles. In operation, therefore, a team track could see quite a variety of railroad cars, mainly boxcars and flats. US railroads did also have freight houses, where a variety of goods would be loaded. I think the difference was that in a freight house employees of the railroad did the work and on a team track the customers did it themselves. I suppose the UK equivalent would just be a goods siding, with or without goods shed and goods platform with crane, as many of the rail companies' customers would have their goods loaded / unloaded that way (by railway employees). Box vans, flats and sheeted open wagons would be the main types seen, although in many parts of the country such sidings were even used for unloading coal. Staithes were dispensed with and the coal went directly from the rail wagons onto road vehicles. This is probably the closest UK equivalent to a team track. Either way, team track is a US term which I doubt would have been heard in the Grand Duchy of Mittenburg. Hope this sheds some light. Best wishes. Cam. Now enough of this thread creep. Let's see some more pics and videos of Hobby's gorgeous rabbits layout. Edited October 26, 2022 by CameronL Added a bit 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted October 26, 2022 Author Share Posted October 26, 2022 Thanks Cam! I suppose the siding with the goods shed at the main station would count then, but I'm using that as a place for the railcars which go to the high level to terminate. I'm on holiday so no further photos until I get back! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 I was wondering what the high level was for. It said "quarry" to me, or other industry such as logging, until you said the railway was passenger-only. Enjoy the hol. Best wishes. Cam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted October 26, 2022 Author Share Posted October 26, 2022 The idea is that it's the top of a hill where walkers get off and go for a walk whilst the more sensible stay in the restaurant at the station and drink and eat themselves silly! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hobby Posted November 10, 2022 Author Share Posted November 10, 2022 That's it for now, I have to do the fettling for the local West Mids NG group meet on the 19th... 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted January 21, 2023 Author Share Posted January 21, 2023 The initial run-out went well with everything working as it should, since then I've been adding detail, and a backscene, though that needs a little more bedding in... It's very much a "fun" layout, not to be taken seriously, in line with it's rabbit warren background... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody C Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Stunning layout! Lots of attention to detail and fun to rrun - brilliant! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 Well it ran "OK" at Narrow Gauge North, three of the points played up by not switching or doing so intermittently. I had bought a CDU but hadn't fitted it, I have done so since and all works OK, that'll teach me! I don't think sitting outside in the car the night before in minus 5'C conditions helped matters, though, I don't think I was the only one to have a few issues! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CameronL Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 22 hours ago, Woody C said: Stunning layout! Lots of attention to detail and fun to rrun - brilliant! Any chance of a video update with a train running through the scenery? Love it. Best wishes Cam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobby Posted March 29, 2023 Author Share Posted March 29, 2023 (edited) It's boxed up at the moment, I should have done one when I was sorting out the point motor issues. It's out again at the narrow gauge show in Mansfield in July, I'll do one then if you don't mind waiting! Edited March 29, 2023 by Hobby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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