Petermac's Railway

At least you've made the move at last Peter.Hope you get better soon so you can start on all those jobs and Maxmill 2.

Hi Peter
Hope you feel better soon. I am sure that you are both glad that, at least the move is now complete. I do sympathise with the " what's in that box" syndrome. We went through that when we downsized 11 years ago. I am still not convinced we have opened all the boxes yet!:roll:

Best wishes

John

[user=606]Sol[/user] wrote:

Peter, with the move to improve your retirement,   

will your internet improve as well?

My retirement is, according to Liz, on hold for now Sol ………………….but yes, the good news is, after lots of to-ing and fro-ing and telephone calls to Orange, we now have our Livebox connected and running.  Just tested the speed and we have 17.5 mega.  An improvement on our old 1.9 on a good day,  so I'm a happy bunny.  :doublethumb

Thanks for the "get well soon" wishes guys - I'm certain this cold of mine needs further expert examination.  It really is the worst cold known to man and my survival thus far is testament to my inner strength.  I've offered to assist Beechams, Vicks, Boots and all the other cold rememdy manufacturers and am just awaiting the financial scramble to secure exclusive access to my disease …………………..

John, having been here, you'll understand what I mean about being surrounded by boxes - 2 furnished houses into one is difficult !! 

We are awaiting builders and plumbers so it will be some time yet before we can start to find homes for the content of those boxes, or even, a new home for Maxmill but we are both very pleased to be where we now are.

There is development ………………………………..

Those of you who have been following my efforts to create a new train room, might recall that I have been having the devil's own job trying to find a suitable home in a partially ruined outbuilding we have here.

It has no roof and only 31/2 walls.  The walls are built from large, heavy sandstone blocks - they are 40cm thick, 40 cm high and longer than both their height and width.  Way too heavy to lift without mechanical help.

I had thought I'd got someone to put a roof on the thing and I'd concrete it and rebuild the ailing wall.  However, he let me down and took on other work !!  It happens in France - regularly !!!

The potential costs were looking horrendous, to say nothing of the effort involved but hey, nothing's too much for the LNER ……………………

Then, out of the blue, this was advertised on a local sales site "Preowned in Aquitaine" :





A 6 metre x 2.3 metre portable office unit - complete with heating and air conditioning and just a mere 35 odd miles away from me.

Guess what was inside:











It's all controlled by one of these :



With 2 walk-about hand throttles:




After some discussion, we arrived at a price suitable to both of us.

It has to be craned out of his site and come over a wheat field at this end so I'm willing the sunshine on to ripen the crop and hopefully, harvest will allow it to arrive sometime in July.

It's not the type of layout I had planned but I'm sure I'll learn to love it.

A video follows when I find out how to upload one !!!


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:doublethumb
Brilliant……well done…….I am so pleased for you!

Just by chance we will be in SW France in early August! I will send you a PM later

Congratulations and best wishes

John

Oh that looks exciting! I look forwards to seeing he videos!

[user=434]John Dew[/user] wrote:

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Just by chance we will be in SW France in early August! I will send you a PM later

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I'll look forward to your PM John - sounds promising …………………….. :hmm

Oh, and many thanks for the congratulations.  :cheers

Here's a video of the layout taken by the current owner.  I'm not buying any of the rolling stock but many of the buildings are included in the purchase.

OK, let's see if this works:

Worked perfectly! Not a bad size is it!!!

That will keep you busy updating it Peter.

Oh my!  What are the chances?  That is a fantastic space, to have a railway as well is just a super bonus!  And such potential - keep it and modernise, change it module by module, or have a play and then set about a total refit.  I am very envious, but also excited at what we will see you do.

You could create a gorgeous Southern run to the coast……..

Warm regards

Michael

I,m more than green with envy.
A fantastic find Peter.

Scooooore!!

Nigel

What a result Peter,that looks a fantastic project to take on.I thought when I started reading the post that it was just a cabin to transfer Maxmill to.Looking forward to further developments/

Thats great news Peter, plenty to get your teeth into, adapting, improving the areas your not happy with  but also gets you up and running fast !
 :thumbs

Cheers

Matt

You Jammy git Peter.
Thats a great find and im sure you really chuffed.

Now with all that work already done there no excuse why you cant convert to full computer control now as you have gained loads of spare time .

Did he throw the rollling stock in with the sale Peter i noticed a blue pullman there.

Your Lenz will plug in and work fine on that


Brian

Wow Peter, what a result and well done with such a fantastic find. I've missed all this news till now, as I've been mad busy with the gites and gardens these past two days, with more guests arriving this evening. 

Did you say it's air conditioned to boot? That certainly opens up summer modelling and running. It's 31deg in the shade here today, another 10 degrees for those mad enough to do stuff in direct sun for too long, so no playing trains in the Western Loire for a while now, although I'm not complaining.

I bet you'll be getting impatient for it to arrive soon. Have you any outline plans yet?

I'm so happy for you after the issues with your roofer. We're still waiting for ours.

Best,

Bill

And the winner Isssssss  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: