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[Simon]

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With waterworks more or less completed, the route onwards has been pegged out. The tops of the stakes more or less mark trackbed level.

Creative trackbed construction required :scratch:

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Also couldn't resist a bit of a play this afternoon - I discovered the black and white setting on my camera

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Beeee - Baaarp!! Thrumm thrumm thrumm thrumm.....

(oh for a sound chip :lol: )

 

[Jordan]

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Beeee - Baaarp!! Thrumm thrumm thrumm thrumm.....

(oh for a sound chip :lol: )

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

When all is said and done, no matter how serious we get about it, at the end of the day we all just want to play trains, really....

 

[Simon]

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Steve Cook and I have made up some more track panels post Camrail, wired up the track around the back of the shed and tried out a brilliant new mini camcorder thing and Steve's pannier

I have also today ordered the steel for the continuation of the track bases.

Pictures to follow, hopefully a bit more will get done tomorrow too - thanks very much Steve for your enthusiasm and help, as ever

Simon

 

[Steve Cook]

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thanks very much Steve for your enthusiasm and help, as ever

Pleasure
I've enclosed a couple of shots of the playing about, I'll post some of the track work later

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Steve

 

[Simon]

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Fantastic pictures, that pannier is very impressive indeed.

After I got back from work tonight I took the weights off the track and wired up the controller, I am now running over a whopping 44 feet of wired up permanently laid track

The light was failing, but this snap gives a view of the new bit of track.

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The track behind the Ruston is temporarily laid down, the space on the right is where the other track of the passing loop will go.

 

[28ten]

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Im liking the Pannier and its train

 

[Simon]

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I have opened a Youtube account and uploaded a run with the 03 on to the "wooden extension" that Steve and I made with the mini DV on Monday afternoon.

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The date is wrong (haven't worked out how to change it yet, instructions "velly chinese")

The video certainly picks up track imperfections very well :shock:

Took absolutely ages to load though and its not an enormous file so I may well be doing something wrong somewhere :scratch:

Will do another one running over yesterdays track soon, hopefully the ghastly "drop" as the train leaves the crossing will have gone after our fiddling around with wedges and spirit levels yesterday. The ahem, "slight jolt" over the lifting bridge requires more work though. Dont fancy being in the dining coach when the ACE goes through there :lol:

 

[Neil]

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.... Will do another one running over yesterdays track soon, hopefully the ghastly "drop" as the train leaves the crossing will have gone after our fiddling around with wedges and spirit levels yesterday. The ahem, "slight jolt" over the lifting bridge requires more work though. Dont fancy being in the dining coach when the ACE goes through there :lol:

I travel by train quite a bit these days, my regular trips to York take me over the approaches to Manchester Piccadilly. Often my train on the return Manchester to Shrewsbury leg part of the journey is paralleled by a local departure and it's fascinating to see how much travel there actually is in the suspension, far more than I had previously thought.

 

[28ten]

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Simon, you might need something like HandBrake to resize and compress the video file.
The track doesnt look too bumpy to me, but I can hear squeaky bearings!!

 

[iploffy]

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that looks like fun to me, enjoyable isnt it just to have a play. Bumpy I don't think so I work on the real things and your track looks positively smooth compared to some of the PW I have to work over. so long as the rails are level with each other the actual formation moves in the vertical along its length and is not perfectly flat it's physically impossible to make it so in the real world, slight imperfections make the railway look prototypical and not sterile.

Keep up the good work

Ian

 

[Simon]

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that looks like fun to me, enjoyable isnt it just to have a play. Bumpy I don't think so I work on the real things and your track looks positively smooth compared to some of the PW I have to work over. so long as the rails are level with each other the actual formation moves in the vertical along its length and is not perfectly flat it's physically impossible to make it so in the real world, slight imperfections make the railway look prototypical and not sterile.

Keep up the good work

Ian

Ian, coming from someone who works on the real thing I take that as a great compliment, thank you very much.

Fun it definitely is, I'm having difficulty concentrating on anything else at the moment

Hi :wave:

Looking great to my mind , how does the running look to you on site so to speak? :scratch:

Cheers,

CME :wave:

The bit I'm less than 100% about is the way that the radius of the curve on the original (embankment) piece of line "wanders" in the centre, it eases and then tightens up before easing again and is the result of inexperience on my part and also fixing down, eyeing up and laying each piece separately. In any case the camera and mini video are great "judges" as I can't get my head where their lenses can go and also the reading glasses/normal glasses 50yrs plus syndrome has kicked in

Needless to say I am making strenuous efforts to not repeat the "wandering radius" effect again, I guess I'll have to model a track gang and slewing jacks along the dodgy bit :lol:

Good news is that it has stopped raining and the steel strip for the next track sections has just arrived. I think I'll give Dave the Welder a call, only problem is that with Dave the welder also comes Tess the Collie :lol: :lol:

 

[Captain Kernow]

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Steve's pannier

Steve has a pannier??!!

Wow! How fantastic is that! Great progress, chaps!

 

[Simon]

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The joint had lifted slightly on the inner rail, but with a bit of remedial work with epoxy and a spirit level I reckon the job's a good 'un.

According to the trusty camera:

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Monuments wouldn't be a bad idea, but the chances of me laying them out on a proper curve and levelled are pretty remote, and they would bound to get in the way of the sleepers even if I could :lol:

Thinking about the real things, and having handled them :shock:, there is a picture in one of my books of them being laid out along the S&D. Given that they must have had to remove a sleeper or two to correctly place them on to the sub base, the amount of work involved must have been colossal and incredibly hard. I'm sure working out on the track is still tough today, even with all the mechanisation - but those guys were something else

Changing the subject slightly, I am now needing to set out the inner track and am wondering about "the six foot". Does anyone here know (and I appreciate there is no hard and fast rule) what the likely figure for "the six foot" would be in my case. I understand the figure was increased for curves and for canted track, both of which I have.

I have made spacers (white plastikard, just visible in photographs) set at 60mm, which is six foot three and a half inches in my (1/32) scale but the tracks still look very closely spaced to my eyes. Perhaps it is just that I am used to the oversize gap between OO tracks, any thoughts/suggestions most welcome, as ever.

Simon

 

[Simon]

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Laid some more bricks yesterday and have done a bit more earthmoving and pondering today, after going on the "Skyride" through an amazingly car free Bath with Harry and charlie this morning - a really good event

Here is an overall view with the template for the second Curved C10 in position at the end of the concrete track base, pointing ominously towards virgin garden territory :shock: :x :lol:

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This gives me a loop with space for passing 18 odd feet of train, which equates to a big hydraulic with 8 Mk 1s tagged on behind, which should be plenty - although still much less than the prototype is likely to have had. The brick wall will go straight from its current position to give a tapered space for the yard tracks, approaching close to the concrete at its far end.

Referring to the plan, I have had it in my mind to retain the yard area (at a slightly lower level than the running line) by rows of bricks laid something like this:

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The spirit level shows that two rows (the slab laid on top of the bricks is allowance for mortar lines) gives me a yard set 1 3/4" below main line track level. Having mocked it up though, I think it looks "too much" and it will also mean quite a high retaining wall being built by this dodgy bricklayer with his dodgy secondhand bricks.

Here is the same view without the extra wall:

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As using the bricks gives me a much wider yard than I need, I think I am going to scrap the extra bricks idea and instead widen the stone formation leaving sufficient space for an earth slope between it and the brick wall, if you see what I mean. This will give scope for eventual planting and will look more realistic, I think.

The effect I have in mind is a bit like the end of the sidings at Evercreech or the three long sidings at Garsdale, with sets of rail built buffer stops set in a line. In my case though the yard is lower than the main line, which will be achieved by dropping the yard feed before the sidings fan out. The siding nearest the running loop will be level with it though, and will form a headshunt/carriage siding for the "branch line".

Being a Wally, there is insufficient width on the concrete base for this, but I figure a line of bricks concreted along the "inner edge" will do the trick.

There's nothing like making things hard for yourself is there

Ah well, it'll be lovely when it's finished :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[D1054]

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Terrific permanent way! Love it! Can't wait to see (and hear?) that big hydraulic pulling up that track.

Really taking shape well..

 

[Phill Dyson]

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Looks like you've been busy too Simon , I quite liked the mocked up wall idea, but I'm sure it will look fine whichever way you decide ................BTW I think the old bricks look great as does the bricklaying

Keep up the good work !

Phill :wave:

 

[iploffy]

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love the layout mate are you enjoying the trowel trade fun aint it just one thing arn't the roads of the passing loop a bit close together could you provide a picture abit closer please

Ian

 

[Jordan]

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...BTW I think the old bricks look great as does the bricklaying

Keep up the good work !

Agreed!! The old bricks add some character, and look more "Railway-like" than new bricks would to my mind (no offence intended to Iploffy & Dudley Port!! ).
There was once published years ago a Garden Layout (I forget which magazine or when) that was old tinplate equipment, but the builder had used a lot of real ex-railway materials such as blue engineering bricks, and I remember in particular he used those bricks with a diamond pattern on them for platforms. There was nothing you could describe as "finescale" in that layout, but it just oozed railway atmosphere... I think your brick walls will help do the same...

 

[lancer1027]

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Exellent work Simon The brickwork is great too I look forward to each progress report on this thread.
Its so nice to see so many Garden Railways / plans with diesels
Keep up the great work mate

Rob :wave:

 

[Simon]

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[quote=""Phill Dyson"":25jx4t6c]...BTW I think the old bricks look great as does the bricklaying

Keep up the good work !

Agreed!! The old bricks add some character, and look more "Railway-like" than new bricks would to my mind (no offence intended to Iploffy & Dudley Port!! ).
There was once published years ago a Garden Layout (I forget which magazine or when) that was old tinplate equipment, but the builder had used a lot of real ex-railway materials such as blue engineering bricks, and I remember in particular he used those bricks with a diamond pattern on them for platforms. There was nothing you could describe as "finescale" in that layout, but it just oozed railway atmosphere... I think your brick walls will help do the same... [/quote:25jx4t6c]

I think I know the railway you mean, was it in "Day Trip to Duck End"? I completely agree with you either way and the atmosphere you talk about coupled to my addiction to "recycling" is another part of what is inspiring my garden railway project. My favourite old bricks are the ex railway engineering blues, but I don't have enough of these to put into any significant bits of brickwork unfortunately.

Today is the first day of the school holidays and I have a pile of non garden railway tasks on the horizon, but I will get back out there soon...