Branch Line - Roundy, roundy with some shunting

Fortunately it's an integral garage and the temperature never drops to zero, but if there's a chilly south westerly it's bl@@dy cold around the ankles. When my hands start to go blue I know it's time to pack up and go back indoors



Very odd weather today. Pouring with rain this morning and sunny and very pleasant this afternoon, so wiring done, switch soldered and all tested.









I put a medium radius point in (Peco SL-E95) instead of the short radius ones which formed the crossover and I think it actually looks better now anyway.

Just need to replace the ballast and build another platform surface, and I'm back where I started.


Ed

Hi Ed,

Getting there. Nice photo of the Deltic growling away in the background.:thumbs

Recovery mode is working well.

Cheers

Toto

It's all looking very workmanlike, Ed.

How did the wire in tube 'S' bend go?  Nice and smooth?

Good one Ed :thumbs
The medium point looks better and should work better I reckon. It`s much easier for rolling stock to pass through the mediums.
:cheers  Gormo

Well done Ed. Tried the shunters yet?

Marty

I was in recovery mode as well last night Toto, as my back was telling me I shouldn't really have been crawling about on  the garage floor in the afternoon.


The GEM wire in tube with a bend is OK Max, but the tube has to be as rigid as possible to prevent any flexing, due to the small amount of movement of the slide switch. A lever and/or omega wire, where the movement is a bit more adjustable would be better, but then I'd need a micro switch against the tie-bar to switch frog polarity.  


I've laid the medium point nearer the curve Gormo, whereas the crossover was at the platform ends. I'm hoping it allows a bit more space for a loco to run around the train on platform one and recouple at this end without blocking the point, so that another train can then run in to platform two.


Shunters tested Marty :thumbs, you should be able to see the Jinty 'hiding' behind the coach in the first picture. It's funny how there always seems to be one loco that everyone uses to initially test, in my case the Railroad Jinty.


Of course, if I'd listen to the advice given on here in the first place and used electrofrogs from the outset, I wouldn't have now had all these problems. But on the other hand, it probably wouldn't have been such a challenging learning experience.  






Ed

Don,t worry Ed, we,ve all done it, just bask in the pleasure of getting it sorted .

Finally got a new platform surface made for platform 2.

Not fixed down yet and may need trimming, as I need to redo the ballasting where the old cross over came out and the new medium radius point was installed.






Ed

G`day Ed,

It`s coming along again. Those platform surfaces look really good. Will you have a fence along the back of the island platform or will both faces of that platform pick up passengers.???

:cheers  Gormo

Hi Gormo

There's a wall to go along that side of the platform, which I was about to put in when everything went pear-shaped.

Just need a few bright, less windy days, so I can finish replacing the ballast and then the  wall can go in and I'll be back where I started about a month ago.


Ed

Just keep your fingers crossed……..hope it all falls into place for you.:thumbs
:cheers Gormo

I've done a bit more ballasting, but haven't done all that's needed to put platform two back yet.

The PVA mix takes ages to dry in this cold weather and some days it's too cold anyway to start messing about spraying water around in the garage


By the by, my eldest son (who isn't a railway modeller) came round a few weeks ago and said "when are you putting the wires (OHLE) up" ?

Makes you think, change of era, :hmm

Now where did I see that picture of a single track branch line with catenary


Ed

(PS Oh yes, Braintree to name but one)

Oooohhh!!!….here we go….he`s off again,
Might be worth looking into though Ed???…would it work with DCC……well actually would you be able to run all your stock on the same track with the over head wires.????
:cheers  Gormo

Could just be cosmetic wires Gormo.

I'm definitely getting pulled to the 'dark side', already now got two blue diesels


Ed

Don't do it Ed.Feel the force.:It's a no no

The force is strong in this one Alan




Trouble is, Dapol have finally brought out their catenary system in OO and N

http://www.ehattons.com/stocklist/results.aspx?searchfield=catenary


….. and I keep looking at Hornby Class 86's on eBay thinking, they look nice :???:


Ed

Oh God, I've just bid on an electric locomotive :shock:

That's shocking…! Now when is the Dapol catenary coming ??

Cheers, Gary.

[user=878]Gary[/user] wrote:

That's shocking…! Now when is the Dapol catenary coming ??

Cheers, Gary.

Give us a chance Gary, haven't won it yet :lol:

Ed

You`ll win it Ed………..Murphys Law…..article 2….page 3…..paragraph 4.
If you bid on Ebay on something you`re not absolutely sure you want, you will win it. To be sure to be sure !!!
Now how are you going to do that cantenary wire thingy stuff…..Hmmm????
:cheers  Gormo