GWR/LMS OO Gauge DCC RR&Co

What paints did you use John? They look great.

Hi Peter

Sorry I didnt respond earlier to thank you for that very kind and flattering post …….and thank you Reg, Ken and Daniel for agreeing so wholeheartedly with him :thumbs.

Peter, you must be one of the oldest  longest serving and most enthusiastic supporters of Granby. You describe, far more eloquently than I could ever attempt, the look and feel of the era I am trying to model. You have no idea how helpful and morale boosting  your posts have been when things have not gone particularly well.

Never more so than this week :shock: . I have been trying, for the past few days, to make a video of the two new (ish) eight coupled locos hauling long freight trains…..very Granby.

 As expected all the usual things that can go wrong did……previously ultra reliable wagons de railed or uncoupled….two crucial turnouts decided not to act as instructed by RR&Co……even the Teutonic efficiency of RR&Co suffered a minor blip!………but I was prepared for all that…..I have a PhD in Murphy's law :roll: 

However when everything had been sorted ….I suffered a major short…….not a minor everyday affair picked up by a PBX and quickly resolved…. a major short closing down half the layout but leaving the other half operable……never happened before…no obvious solution. Having squeezed my ancient but still lengthy body under the baseboards for the best part of a day I now have the layout running again…….although I have no idea what caused the problem. I feel a bit like the motorist who, having tried unsuccessfully to fix his broken down car, in frustration ,gives it a kick and it springs into life!  

 Rant over, steam let off…….the video is shot…….just needs to be edited and cut to a reasonable length……..watch this space.


Thank you once again for such a delightful post

Best wishes

John












 

[user=211]CCGWR[/user] wrote:

What paints did you use John? They look great.

Thank you……glad you like them !

Josonja Matte Flow Acrylic. Mike C (Queensland) ex of this parish who is a gifted artist recommended them……I bought about a dozen tubes to cover the spectrum I use……had them a couple of years now…..they are excellent.

I used combinations of French Blue and Storm Blue with touches of Light Grey

 Best wishes

John

I knew that I should have ordered the snow plough version of Oxford's Dean Goods! :lol:






This pretty stuff taken earlier in the week is fine







But 18" overnight with more to come is a bit over the top! :roll:

Cold, uncomfortable, slippy, dangerous and a right back ache to clear without a snowplough . . . .

                 .  .  .  . but absoloutly beautiful !!!!

Hope the thaw is not far away John. Stay warm, be safe.

Bill

Wow - 18 inches overnight.  That's quite a lot of snow John.  You could have your own winter Olympics - it would be just like old times with Matilda !!  :roll: :roll: :roll:

It is, as Bill said, beautiful - but only from where I am.  At my age, I fear snow is most definitely for "others" and should only be viewed through a very thick window ………………. ;-)

Good luck with the clear up but, if it continues, you'll soon need a blower rather than a shovel.  :shock:

At the end of this post is a 5 minute video about a long freight train circuiting Granby.

By way of preamble….my storage yard are more than a little crowded.

Here is a view from the train room doorway with the terrace houses and warehouse, that normally conceal it, removed




Although the Up and Down lines each have 5 storage roads, because of the  entrance pointwork,  there are only three through routes for the Up  line

U1 is for an 8 coach passenger express, U2 accomodates  either the Milk or Parcels trains leaving U3 the only available route  for Up Freight circuits 




To squeeze as much stock in as possible the dead end siding U4 has both  the 16 wagon iron ore train and a 2 car autotrain in front :roll:

U5 has two sets of suburban trains…… 5 coaches and 4 locos ……these movements have been covered in an earlier video

In this video the GWR  72xx  with a 16 wagon mixed freight leaves the blind siding U4 to circuit the layout meanwhile the LMS Super D and Iron Ore train clears U3 eventually backs into the blind siding U4.

In the background, so to speak, three shorter freights do a continuous circuit in the opposite direction. So in total there are 5 locos in play…..well 6 if you include a cameo appearance by a 14xx  :lol:

The entire sequence actually takes a little over 7 minutes. I fear I may have been a little ruthless in cutting so there are a few jerky transitions………and you may be only able to count 5 locos…..I think a LMS 4F may have fallen on to the cutting room floor!

Rather than have the camera (iphone) in one fixed spot I ran the sequence a number of times with the camera in different places around the layout. I hope this makes the sequence clearer. However there is one clip which because of the sunlight  I could only shoot at night……..and it shows  :oops:

Enough excuses……I hope that, despite the flaws, you enjoy watching the video……I certainly enjoyed making it



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It says "this video is unavailable" ……………………..

Great photos of the storage roads John - talk about sardines ……….. :thumbs

Hope you've managed to keep the snow at bay.  

[user=6]Petermac[/user] wrote:

It says "this video is unavailable" ……………………..

Great photos of the storage roads John - talk about sardines ……….. :thumbs

Hope you've managed to keep the snow at bay.  

Thanks  Peter

 :shock: :shock:…….Hmmm :hmm  I can see the video on YMR but I would say that wouldn't I?


Hopefully Max who is a whizz at this stuff can check it out for me

Cheers

John

The snow is sort of at bay….but more is expected tonight.

Hi John

Can you please post me the link, copied and pasted from the YouTube page, while it is running, please.

The one in your email advice from the post doesn't work.

If I have the original, I have a better chance of getting it to work.

Cheers

Thanks Max

Sorry for all the trouble I cause……..not sure what I did wrong……and it worked for me which is confusing

Here is the complete link from Youtube





Cheers


John

No trouble at all, John

https://www.youtube.com/watch/v/UTEfS4YkXT4&t=9s

As you can see, I have set the link up as per (except that I put in an extra space so we can see it).

I'm getting an error message that I don't have Adobe Flash - which I do.

There is more than something simple wrong with this.

I'll ask the boffins.

Cheers.

Hi John,

That video ID number is not available on YouTube. Here are your YouTube videos:

 https://www.youtube.com/user/granbyjmd

Max, YMRC doesn't use Flash. Click the Insert a YouTube video button, not the Flash button.

However, the option to start a video 9 seconds in (in John's link) isn't available on YMRC. You must start the video at the beginning.

Use the Belgian Share link from the YouTube site which looks like this (click Share):



And after using that button on YMRC it looks like this:


And the result is this:

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cheers,

Martin.

Excellent video John, you should be very pleased  ;-)

[user=753]Phil.c[/user] wrote:

Excellent video John, you should be very pleased  ;-)

Hi Phil,

That's not the video John intended. I used one of his other videos to illustrate the method of posting videos.

The video for which John posted a link is not available on YouTube.

cheers,

Martin.

Gotcha!

Could it be the John's video is not 'Public' Martin?

Ed

[user=1338]Ed[/user] wrote:

Could it be the John's video is not 'Public' Martin?

Ed

Hit the nail on the head Ed! YouTube have changed something because previously….as recently as the Dean Goods clip…..I didn't have to make a specific change……took me forever to navigate the labyrinth this morning to find Creator Studio:shock:

I hope it works now…….give me five minutes to amend the OP

Cheers

John

Brilliant John, enjoyed that  :thumbs :thumbs :thumbs

When you see so many train movements at the same time, it makes it more obvious why your using RR & Co.

 Great stuff, more please.



Ed

Thanks Ed…..I am so glad you liked it. 
RR &Co can be frustrating at times but it adds a huge dimension to my enjoyment, as a lone operator:thumbs

Cheers

John