New Super-Layout - Masborough in Emmadale

[richard carr]

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.









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



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

 

[Scale7JB]

Richard, we need another pair for the bridge between the station and the tunnel mouth too?

JB.

 

[richard carr]

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.




















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

 

[Ressaldar]

Hi Richard,

all looking very impressive.

regards

Mike

 

[Scale7JB]

Hopefully get a video of the new section running this Monday eve.

JB.

 

[richard carr]

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.

 

[Scale7JB]

The half etches to receive the solder are a clever touch, hadn’t noticed that before.

JB.

 

[simond]

JB,

I think the half etched slots are for epoxy, IIRC the intended insulation is paper.

that’s certainly how I made mine.

Atb
Simon

 

[3 LINK]

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.

 

[GrahamMc]

how do you insulate between the two ?

This the jig and how I put them together using some 0.6mm double sided pcb strip.

 

[SimonT]

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

 

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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 .

Martyn.

 

[GrahamMc]

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 . 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]

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]

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

 

[richard carr]

It's a while since anyone posted on this thread, but we have been working on the layout, especially so that we can hold running days, we have had 3 this year so far and the last one for this year will be happening shortly.

I have done a bit this weekend, laying some of the missing bits of track, in the diesel depot and the main fiddle yard.
















A new loco has also joined the fleet, a large logo class 56 has arrived, I just need t number it but I cannot find my diesel transfers !
These actually arrived in May 2022, but have just sat there in a box since.

 

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Hi Richard, can I ask what adhesive you are using to stick the sleepers to the Templot paper? I am tempted to use just double sided tape as the ballast will hold everything firm once happy with the track levels and rail alignment.

Cheers,

Martyn.

 

[richard carr]

Hi Martyn

I use Uhu.

It sets in about 30 minutes

Richard

 

[richard carr]

I finally found my "missing" box of decals so added numbers to the 56 and dutch 37, its funny how much difference adding a number makes







In my search for the decals, I also found 37031 hiding in a pile of blue boxes, this is an original Heljan 37 from almost 20 years ago, that was converted to cut away buffer beam using a Pete Harvey conversion kit.






Now I need to do some more weathering.

 

[richard carr]

Unfortunately 37031 has fallen victim to split gears.