Steve Cook
Flying Squad
Good old Dusty - dictionary definition of 'apathy' right there 
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
Just try the same thing with 4mm stuff!Good old Dusty - dictionary definition of 'apathy' right there
Simon
Flying Squad
Dave Easto came over today and after the rain cleared we ran some trains. We ran his switcher and scratch built wagons and D6319 was turned out for a passenger train, the first it has hauled since it failed on the 6th March
There was a fair bit of lineside clearance required, the hut is currently somewhat overgrown and luxuriant moss is appearing in the four foot near the down end of the loop.
Windscreen wiper still to be made, although when clearing undergrowth I did find the Slaters set screw that came off Dennis's P Class and resulted in a Titfield style loss of driving wheel
Having been out there since mid July it is slightly rusty….
Simon
There was a fair bit of lineside clearance required, the hut is currently somewhat overgrown and luxuriant moss is appearing in the four foot near the down end of the loop.
Windscreen wiper still to be made, although when clearing undergrowth I did find the Slaters set screw that came off Dennis's P Class and resulted in a Titfield style loss of driving wheel
Having been out there since mid July it is slightly rusty….Simon
AndyB
Western Thunderer
Simon,
I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere, and I'm sure that someone else has asked more recently - but I can't find the answer to the question of how you bond your track to the concrete base.
I found a reference to 'epoxy' - is this still what you use, and if so, what sort is it?
A fellow G3 member (not on WT) is having problems bonding Cliff Barker track to his concrete base - the lack of bond being with the concrete, not the sleepers.
Thanks,
Andy
I'm sure you've mentioned it somewhere, and I'm sure that someone else has asked more recently - but I can't find the answer to the question of how you bond your track to the concrete base.
I found a reference to 'epoxy' - is this still what you use, and if so, what sort is it?
A fellow G3 member (not on WT) is having problems bonding Cliff Barker track to his concrete base - the lack of bond being with the concrete, not the sleepers.
Thanks,
Andy
Simon
Flying Squad
I have latterly being laying it "spot fixing" it with epoxy, the five minute stuff you can buy in sensibly sized bottles from Eileen's et al.
I do this in order to set up correct (hopefully) alignment, level and "top" of the rails, lots of examples of how this doesn't always work back up the thread.
What is really fixing the track though is not the epoxy, but the Ballast that I then add. This is put on dry, shaped, wetted and then flooded with SBR.
I cannot recommend this method highly enough, it makes for a phenomenally robust and permanent formation and looks great, it also helps keeping the track clean as detritus can't get stuck between the sleepers.
Simon
I do this in order to set up correct (hopefully) alignment, level and "top" of the rails, lots of examples of how this doesn't always work back up the thread.
What is really fixing the track though is not the epoxy, but the Ballast that I then add. This is put on dry, shaped, wetted and then flooded with SBR.
I cannot recommend this method highly enough, it makes for a phenomenally robust and permanent formation and looks great, it also helps keeping the track clean as detritus can't get stuck between the sleepers.
Simon
Simon
Flying Squad
In this morning's beautiful sunshine and ahead of hopefully running some trains tomorrow, I have been out the line doing some vegetation clearance.
New brake van near the bridge before the gang got out and started work
Same brake van and shopped coach in the station.
Hopefully tomorrow will be nice.
Simon
New brake van near the bridge before the gang got out and started work
Same brake van and shopped coach in the station.
Hopefully tomorrow will be nice.
Simon
Heather Kay
Western Thunderer
The shine on the side of the coach looks just so. 
Simon
Flying Squad
It got a bit gloomier later, hence my fiddling in the shed, but I also cleared the goods yard in the morning and so laid out the turnouts and track to remind myself of the plan. The aluminium in the centre is destined to become the station platforms, sometime in this life I hope
oldravendale
Western Thunderer
Just lovely, Simon.
Better get that weedkilling train out, though.....
Brian
Better get that weedkilling train out, though.....
Brian
Ressaldar
Western Thunderer
Simon
Flying Squad
Somewhat late, the first trains of the year were run today when Dave Easto came over. He has a new camera, lots to get used to but he took a rather fetching video of the longest BR freight yet run on the system.
A few pictures too, still D6319 Groundhog day on the loco front I'm afraid, at least it hasn't conked out, yet....
Actually, there was something newish...
Simon
A few pictures too, still D6319 Groundhog day on the loco front I'm afraid, at least it hasn't conked out, yet....
Actually, there was something newish...
Simon
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Simon
Flying Squad
No trains running, but here are two shots of the garden line in the current weather, the first one was taken late-ish on Thursday afternoon, the second one this morning. If anything it has got whiter since this picture but I don't know what tomorrow will bring. Given that there won't be much point in opening the shop if its still a white out I may attempt "ploughing" the line and running a train, then again I might not!
I think the card school has long since retired to the "Shunters Arms"
Simon
I think the card school has long since retired to the "Shunters Arms"
Simon
Captain Kernow
Western Thunderer
But Simon, what about the loyal customer who has trudged, hiked and skied forty miles through atrocious conditions, blizzards and a lack of KFC, only to arrive at your Emporium, hoping to purchase the latest MRJ and read something interesting from Bob Essery about model railway operation, only to find it closed?
Steve Cook
Flying Squad
Anybody prepared to go to that much effort could probably use a phone 