blackwolf wrote:

IKke wrote:

Scale steam trains are cool

This is me driving:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...LZQY#t=47s

Bigger is better, this is me driving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vKWnJcrNRw

Whats wrong with a big hand, much quicker

spudfan wrote:

Hello Megatoad. What you see is only part of it. There are another two sections not shown. Hope you get that track ballasting done before arthritis sets in!

I tried that once when I was young, only a double line between two platforms, I discoverred then that life was too short for that

I am slowly doing bits, the goods yard platform is new where the Series 1's are arriving, and I recently spent several evenings cutting out each of the arches, the basic card cutting is easy as the wife owns an educational supplies shop so I have a huge digital guilotine for cutting A1 sheets of greyboard to most sizes I need. However each of the 50 or so arches are then hand cut from the 2mm thick greyboard which is bloomin tough. about 10 arches a night if I was lucky. then I just printed the brickwork out onto A4 sticky labels and stuck it to the card, using the Scalescenes low relief arches kit.

Personally I prefer playing trains to modelling, more importantly they are all digital now (that cost a small fortune in itself) and can be run from the computer

The dog hates it when I go in the loft and sits whining at the foot of the ladder, that said he his hinting that he wants to go out right NOW

rossy wrote:

Hey Spudfan where's the diesel loco in the dirty old orange and black CIE livery ?

rossy wrote:

Hey Spudfan where's the diesel loco in the dirty old orange and black CIE livery ?

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And,for shifting "nuclear" or "hazardous" waste."(A converted asthma inhaler) I always get the troops out of the house when using these, just incase there is an accident. One can't be two careful!

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spudfan wrote:

Megatoad. Was admiring your work and telling the Mrs. that your layout must be set near Solihull! Have not gone digital. Have the Peco "electro frog" system. You'd probably have rebuilt a series 1 quicker And cheaper!I have been at it since the early eighties and built the present layoutabout 10,11or 12 years ago. But one is never quite finished,is one?

Couldnt resist the transporter and 8 in transport 80"s when they became available as a £70 or so ebay item, unfortunatly the wife found out so I was in trouble for a while.

Then of course I needed to find the Hornby transporters to move them round She didn't notice those

I love the Irish locos you have. Would love to see a few more piccies of your layout, will post a few more of mine up too.

Before I met the wife I used to live in a flat and buy locos as they were released and took my fancy (I ignored my credit card balance ) I ended up with 33 locos on a 9'x2' layout in the living room including a 4-6-6-4 Santa Fe Challenger!

I then decided to swap to N gauge and go DCC so I sold all my old 'OO' I had collected as a child, only keeping about 15-20 of the newer locos. and built a two tired baseboard in the same space with Japanese bullet trains and US freigt locos plus a Class 04, 33 & 66.

The DCC is a Lenz set 90 plus 2 Compacts as controllers and a rare LH30, 2 point controllers though I dont bother with them, a reverse switching module and computer interface.

I then met and married the missus, she had a great loft as you can see just begging for a railway to run round it. After some juggling of options up there I decided to go back to OO so sold off the N gauge stuff and started rebuilding in 00 as you can see.

I have basically gone for a sort of early BR so I can run LMS steam up to 1970's BR blue (I always wanted a decent 125 set which runs with 6 coaches)

I like decent length trains so I have 5 platforms in the terminus on the lower level that can accomodate up to 8 coaches on 3 & 4.

The trains then run out past the Brewery/goods are and up a ramp to a double circuit round the whole loft with 6 storage lanes at the far end plus a reversing loop round the chimney breast so a train go out and be turned around to eventually return to the terminus.

I am back to 27 locos, the expensive bit is getting them all chipped up (no sound as yet) as you inevitably blow up the odd chip in installation or running, the Heljan 47 is the worst it draws the most current so burned out 2 Bachman decoders, now it has a 1.8amp TCS in it (£28 alone).