Your chaos is nowhere near as chaotic as my chaos Sol ………………

I'm still looking for my Phoenix ……..:???:

Something like this, Ron.

The 'plinth' could be as wide as necessary to be on top of the posts in a convenient location.

Thanks Pete, that is the  sort of thing I have in mind.

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

Being involved on a new replacement point control panel on other part of the layout, the gradient & bridges had been delayed but now back into it.

This is what I  plan to use



while I can provide realistic supports at the left hand end & in the middle, the right hand end is a bit problematical




not sure what to do - the idea of some tunnels springs to mind over the 3 tracks ….thinking….

Hmmm, backed yourself into a corner there Sir!

As you said, probably a tunnel - open arched sides perhaps - or a rather wide and silly looking upturned 'U' support - so a bit of a problem there but nothing a determined modeller such as your good self cannot overcome!

Best of luck, you'll get around it, or in this case, over it, somehow.

Allan.


 

Allan, following  some discussions with the crew, I intend to hide the track that is underneath the upper track with a tunnel & shift the adjacent track away a bit.
I have started with the original placements



and moved the middle track



since that photo, I have now fully shifted the middle track around to the right end - this will give me room for a cliff face, etc.

Good move, Ron.
When offering possible solutions, one doesn't like to suggest ripping up track!

[user=394]ddolfelin[/user] wrote:

 one doesn't like to suggest ripping up track!

part of the fun of this hobby is change.

It's amazing how the "best laid plans of (mice and) men" need to be altered time and time again and it seems particularly true in railway modelling; what 'fun' though! :roll:

Ken.

A good move with the cliff face Sol - it explains the bridge. :thumbs

If you make the cliff face removable, you'll be able to get at that hidden track.  All you need is a "vertical" landscaped panel, held in place perhaps by a magnetic catch.

Easier still, a high retaining wall like Gordon used on some of his different levels on "Eastwood" ………….:roll::roll:

I have been busy installing six  Kadee electromagnets into the two platform lines in Tawnton & altering the western end station throat

One magnet as ballasted with yellow sleepers to identify location a LED to assist in operations.



the revised throat



updated panel - red buttons for electromagnets

plus new panels for storage & junctions



 

combined with working on creating timetables fro passenger & goods services.

It's getting too advanced for me, Ron.

My TV went off the other day.
I checked the fuse by trying it in a lamp.
Worked perfectly so I replaced it in the TV plug.
The TV came on.
Just an illustration of the mysteries that surround me when I venture into the electrickery field.

[user=394]ddolfelin[/user] wrote:

It's getting too advanced for me, Ron.

My TV went off the other day.
I checked the fuse by trying it in a lamp.
Worked perfectly so I replaced it in the TV plug.
The TV came on.
Just an illustration of the mysteries that surround me when I venture into the electrickery field.

I wouldn't mind betting the problem wasn't the fuse DD. ;-)

There's a very simple way of checking a fuse:-

Switch on a torch, remove the end cap, place fuse with one end touching the battery and the other end touching the torch casing and if the torch lights up it's ok.

Ken

Yes - or try it in the TV.

Having finished the trackwork etc with the new upper lever storage & station, in between many other aspects of the hobby, I was unhappy re the gradient going to the upper level, - starting right on a corner



and combined with removing storage tracks that were behind the main station,






I started to clean the trackwork off and the new gradient would start approx where the rod van is situated






This shows where the gradient starts



as compared to the distant green bus

New junction and gradient on the LH side

 





looking the other way






 

now to wire it all up !!

Love the point work :Happy

Don't you just wish the little fairies would come along and wire it for you

Nice sweep of track there Ron.
So another one joins the wire dropper gang!

regards,
Derek.

The new Tiverton Junction all wired up with a new panel

For those YMRers who may have read the various versions of this layout  from
http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=1344&forum_id=21
http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=1498&forum_id=21
http://yourmodelrailway.net/view_topic.php?id=5948&forum_id=21
and the various station threads

in another place discussing hand build turnouts,  I posted this

RTR turnouts - no matter what breed, are perfect for those who         are:
 1, lazy  or
 2, have two left thumbs  or
 3, wanting to get the layout up & running quickly   or
 4, saving money as a hand-built unit may only cost  1/4 of         RTR units or
 5, a combination of the above.
 
 I started off the new layout with the idea of having RTR         in storage & hand-built all out in open.
As can be seen on         my layout thread, I did do many hand-built turnouts - 3 ways,         diamonds for starters
but it was point 3 from above that decided         me to use Peco & Tillig.
 
 Now the "running quickly" was not because of my desire to         see trains run but as a place for fellow modellers
to be         involved with,  in operating sessions.
 
 Perhaps in hindsight, I should have kept going on the         hand-built regime but at the same time,
operating sessions with         more than one person shows up the deficiencies of the layout         plan.
I have done many small /larger changes due to these         sessions & the RTR turnouts do make changes quicker to do
& get back into operating.
 
 While I am reasonably happy with the overall concept plan         of the D&S, I have made a couple of mistakes
and to fix         these would mean almost a complete new re-build & I don't         feel like starting again - if I did,
I would not expect to be         operating with crew for a couple of years at least and a reduced         crew size as well.
 
 
 
 


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A rebuild for me would entail so much       work basically from woodwork up; not so wide baseboards
( back       from 34- 40"  to around 24")  & storage lower down and more       accessible;   centre peninsula
from  18" to 36" and aisles from       26"  to 30"  & the centre peninsula would be the main focus       station -
a terminal worked from one side.. Two other small       terminals & 2 storage areas. It could mean just 4 operators
including me - one for each small terminal plus a storage  &       two for the main station

All  turnouts  motorised from panels & better signalling.

Something I really should have done a few years ago - I think a       bit late now.  But some thing to sleep on.

:)Best of luck Ron.

The axe just wears one out in the end :sad:.

As you run your railway with fellow minded railway operator,s, It makes sense to keep things flowing.

Constant starts and stops can kill the group,s enthusiasm. Plus one can get frustrated with the whole hobby.

My axe has been banished to hades.

Now enjoying a build that may well see loco,s running in the not to distant future.

regards,

Derek.