what are people doing on their layout right now

sparky · July 17, 2014, 09:48:43 PM

One of my DCC chipped Class 37 just stopped completely.....thought it must be the chip...tried reprogramming but to no avail....then took chip out reinserted blanking plate and it runs lovely on DC.. time for a new chip....then took chip out of a Class 47 that doesn't get that much running and popped in the 37 which is up and running again...I then put the "non working chip" from the 37 and the 47 works as well !!!.....Sometimes I don't understand why this happens but at least my repair was free

Newportnobby · July 17, 2014, 09:54:41 PM

Cheap as chips repair

DCCDave · July 17, 2014, 10:53:46 PM

Quote from: newportnobby on July 17, 2014, 09:54:41 PM
Cheap as chips repair

Congratulations, you just found the bottom

You did actually make me chuckle!

Cheers
Dave

zwilnik · July 17, 2014, 11:59:02 PM

Tempting fate, but here's another pic. Started building my Ratio coaling tower today. Still handrails, ladder, painting and coal to go, put it's starting to look the part.

Malc · July 18, 2014, 12:02:49 AM

Glad we sorted your pictures out Z, all the ones I've see so far are excellent. This one is no exception.

Bob Tidbury · July 18, 2014, 08:26:47 AM

Don't know what you did Zwilnik but I can now see your pictures as clear as crystal keep up the good work
Bob Tidbury

steve836 · July 18, 2014, 09:45:15 PM

I can see it too! Forgive me if I'm wrong but shouldn't the tower be the other way round. it looks to me as if a wagon of coal would come alongside what appears to be a conveyor system to lift the coal up and into the hopper.

zwilnik · July 18, 2014, 10:42:52 PM

Quote from: steve836 on July 18, 2014, 09:45:15 PM
I can see it too! Forgive me if I'm wrong but shouldn't the tower be the other way round. it looks to me as if a wagon of coal would come alongside what appears to be a conveyor system to lift the coal up and into the hopper.

It should

There's just enough room in the headshunt after that 3 way point for the station pilot or delivery engine to park a couple of coal wagons to feed the hopper for a day or so. Otherwise they'd have to deliver the coal by road around the back of the engine shed where my scrapyard's going to be, which would be a bit silly

Bealman · July 19, 2014, 03:25:28 AM

Either way (literally), it looks great!

zwilnik · July 19, 2014, 11:30:32 AM

Flipped round the right way now

First bit of paint on it before I put the railings and ladder on, then some coal in the hopper and a bit of weathering to do.

D1042 Western Princess · July 19, 2014, 11:37:21 AM

What am I doing right now? Thinking that if I hadn't been silly enough to include all those points, and gone for my other plan of just building a layout on a continuous run with just about half a mile of visible track in each direction and a looped figure of 8 behind the backscene things would be a LOT easier, trains would be running and points would not be glued up when trying to lay a new bit of ballast!

Wingman mothergoose · July 19, 2014, 01:16:02 PM

That 3 way point looks good Zwilnik! How have you wired it up? I quite fancy putting one in my layout somewhere!

Chris

Malc · July 19, 2014, 01:32:32 PM

Building an automatic switch to alter signals when a train approaches. It's from a MERG pocket money kit. It seems to work OK, just 5 more to do and mount under the baseboard.

Wingman mothergoose · July 19, 2014, 01:40:45 PM

To dative had a short running session to test the new points and track I've installed this week, trying to motivate myself to wire up 4 point motors now...

Chris

sparky · July 19, 2014, 02:33:29 PM

Just having a general fiddle with all the points I have laid so far...rubbing down bits of epoxy resin at the frog joins and tweaking minor bumps...