New Super-Layout - Masborough in Emmadale

richard carr

Western Thunderer
Work has been progressing steadily over the past few weeks. John Birch has been very busy staining sleepers. I have been sticking the sleepers down, but yesterday managed to start building a bit more track. This is the curve that heads off to the diesel depot and the branch, it is quite tight for a real curve but is in fact a radius of 2.5 metres, so pretty much everything should go round it. It will be check railed so passenger vehicles will be able to pass.
I also decided to add some gauge widening, as the real thing would almost certainly have had some and used the S7 goups green triangular gauges to effect this.

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It certainly pays to place some weight to hold things down. These are the walnut sleepers that the S7 group supplied and they are a little variable as to the their thickness, but it isn't that bad, there are though a few that are far too thin or too thick that need to go in the bin.

Every 4th chair is one of David Rayner check rail chairs, it's too expensive to use one for every chair and they need super gluing in place as butanone has no effect on what ever they have been printed in.

Then this morning these turned up

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These are from MM1 models so now I need to work out exactly how many of these I'm going to need to do the 2 bridges.

Richard
 

richard carr

Western Thunderer
It is almost a year since I last updated this thread. Not a lot happened during the lockdown earlier this year but once we got to May we have been making some steady progress.
The point work for the diesel loco shed is now we on it's way to being finished, the 4th point has been changed for a double slip so that there will be a side link between the 2 loco sheds.

Here are a few photos.

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And finally the fiddle yard is starting to fill up with stock, turbot wagons 24 ton hoppers 21 ton hoppers and some MK1 coaches.

Richard
 

richard carr

Western Thunderer
Finally the new section has been fully wired up and connected to the main layout, even the double and single slips are working properly, we did find that frog juicers powering the frogs for the slips is the easiest way to wire them up.

Here's a video of the connection in action

(332) Masborough - New extension success - YouTube

The other thing worth mentioning is that we have now standardised on using the JLTRT tie bars, these are easy to build using a simple jig and are very robust and look a bit like the real thing. This the jig and how I put them together using some 0.6mm double sided pcb strip. We are using tortoise point motors to drive the points with the supplied steel wire replaced with 1mm spring steel wire, the supplied wire is far too flimsy.

The jig is made from a few bits of sleeper glued with PVA to a piece of wood.



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3 LINK

Western Thunderer
The two pieces of the tie bar look completely fused together with solder, so how do you insulate between the two ? Or is it just my eyesight playing up again..

Martyn.
 

SimonT

Western Thunderer
Richard,
I used some on Aberbeeg and they were assembled with 20 thou plastic araldited to the brass. Later I tried thick superglue and that worked well and allowed a faster build. The tag for the activator wire was removed and initially a small bit of tube soldered in by the rail joint as I used two droppers under the stock rail down to 3D printed slide bars underneath. Later I just used a dropper soldered to the switch rail as the dropper could rotate in the slide bar.
Simon
 

3 LINK

Western Thunderer

Hi Graham, yes I can see the pcb strip, but to my eyes the solder looks to have flooded both sides of the tie bar, making an electrical connection.

Or do I need to go to Specsavers :rolleyes:.

Martyn.
 

GrahamMc

Western Thunderer
Hi Graham, yes I can see the pcb strip, but to my eyes the solder looks to have flooded both sides of the tie bar, making an electrical connection. Or do I need to go to Specsavers :rolleyes:. Martyn.
Specsavers? You and me both. At first glance I thought it was soldered but didn't look properly and gave no thought to it as I'm not especially interested in tie bars at the moment. It was only when you mentioned it I gave it another look and read the description.
Graham.
 

richard carr

Western Thunderer
Martyn/Graham

I can see why you might think that the solder has flooded across both sides of the pcb (and that is possible) but that one actually hasn't it just needs a bit of clean up with a file, so I'm not sure you need to visit Specsavers just yet.

Richard
 

Oz7mm

Western Thunderer
I have just built a NER wooden platform shelter (based on the one at Howden) for this layout. Can anyone help me with what colour it would have been painted, inside and out, in the 1970s?

John
 
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