essex2visuvesi Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Thought I'd add my own ramblings to the site Some pics of the weather here Not much chance of getting the Garden railway sorted in the next few weeks lol Temperature down around -16C at the moment as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Funny post. I came on o report about snow here in Colorado, then I found these pictures. Doesn't feel cold yet but tonight we're supposed to get 9F (not the loco the temperature). Yesterday it was in the 60's and I didn't bother to get out anything to run. Is your layout going anywhere in those photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 The planning department (wife) has authorised construction, however the final location is still under negotiation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 Still cold here (about -15c in the day and -22c at night) Have to satisfy myself with playing indoors with my new sound decoders and programmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanR Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Have you considered a different pastime?... Like building an ice sculpture in the Sahara? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 IanR said: Have you considered a different pastime?... Like building an ice sculpture in the Sahara? ha ha funny guy. I think about sculpting scenery out of snow for my layout; things like tunnels and castles. Haven't done it yet, but we're about to hit the snowy season. So with all the planning for a layout, do you have a track plan? Or do you have a general idea of size for your layout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 I want to double track run out and back over the river at the bottom of the garden, need at least 200 flexi sections to do that tho. So i think it won't all be done in one go. track plans are afoot and will be posted soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 uhm 600 feet of mainline? wow! Much braver than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted January 20, 2012 Author Share Posted January 20, 2012 well we have 36 acres of forest and swap to play with so I could go a lot further lol I have been planning the main terminus station and its bloody huge! paltform lengths will be about 12 feet long (enough room for my Projected 9/10 car pullman rake to pull in happily) This is going to be a removable section made up of 2 main boards that can be worked on indoors and fixed in place when required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grockle Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Why bother with oo or H0 surely with all that land available this would be better suited for you or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inANnAX1NFU Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Ha ha good point. one of these might suffice too: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleanerg6e Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I love the photos of the snow looks really romantic if bloody cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 The snow is melting Now driving is dangerous as its like trying to drive through porridge Good job I have my trusty V8 Range Rover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 And now the snow is back again.... another 6 inches or so overnight with more falling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 I know this feeling. yesterday we had sun... Today the sky is hanging low and it looks like dusk but it's mid morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 More snow forecast this weekend But fear ye not I will be busy Sound decoder fitting to 3 locos this weekend Bachmann Pannier Tank Roco Krokodil and either the F3 or A4 Theres also a western that needs a detailing kit fitting and some lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 That's the situation I'm looking forward to being in - not under threat of snow of course but one where you can sit back and detail/enhance the items you've already got rather than being constantly on the lookout for something else to add to the collection. Up to now I've been a 'collector' and even many of the items I've used in the past have yet to have even their basic detailing parts fitted. What a hopeless situation! That's my reasoning behind operating a kind of preserved railway outdoors where I use only those items that have been fully prepared for operation - up to and including fitting of sound decoders. I want to start with 'Evening Star', 'Blue Peter', the Robinson '04' and S&D '7F' so that I have a variety of locos capable of working the line. Likewise with coaching stock, I want to maintain a small number of permanent rakes and not be constantly swapping them around. I look at prototype operations such as those on the NYMR and wish I could run a model layout outdoors in similar fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleanerg6e Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 When I was at the NYMR in 2000 I saw a Lambton Tank on an inspection saloon, West Country Pacific Hartland on red eastern region coaches which I rode in from Grosmont to Pickering and A4 Sir Nigel Gresley on a mixture of MK1 blue and grey, one blood and custard and a teak buffet coach which I rode in for the trip back from Pickering to Grosmont. Of course you can have Heartbeat, and the first of the Harry Potter films, 'Harry Pot Head and the Stoned Philosopher'. You'd need to buy a Bachmann Hall and repaint it but ONLY if you really wanted too. It would be totally authentic as the real loco only has the 'Hogwarts Castle' nameplates when involved with filming and the rest of the time has it's Olton Hall nameplates which maybe available from Fox Transfers. You could use a BR tender emblem instead of the silly Hogwarts one, after all they're the same shape. If you decided to fit sound it would need an A4 whistle. In a comedy skit over here on the second film The Chamber of Idiots, someone had written on the walls in blood 'Lord of the Rings rules'. Roy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essex2visuvesi Posted April 12, 2012 Author Share Posted April 12, 2012 Not posted here in a while due to life getting in the way still too much snow to make a start or the railway but things have been moving along nicely inside I now have pretty much all the stock I need tho there's always room for more decoders have been fitted to most locos now 200 yards of flexitrack have been delivered along with a substantial quantity of points Rail joiners - Check 4 x 100M rolls of Bus wire duly liberated from Father in laws workshop (Its power cable for tractors so should be beefy enough lol) Kids have been madly casting Linka parts and creating cottages, castle ruins and god knows what Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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