Check out the discussion regarding reworking of the railway room at:
http://www.Pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
Check out the next episode of the development of Pennvale Sands
http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
Very rapid progress David. I like your solution re the can't bend down below the baseboard problem. Very smart. :thumbsup: Might have to flatter you by copying that. :beers:
All looks good to me although I might have drilled some holes in the cross braces to carry wiring :hmmm:
Congrats on negotiating the extra space with 'The Domestic Authorities'.
There is no need for that. Foam core is very soft when the outer layer of paper is breached so a screwdriver will simply punch a hole for wiring. See developments as I go along.
David
There is a discussion regarding the development of the track plan on my blog at:
www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
I have finally finished laying all of the track and wiring it up. Read my blog for a full discussion of the issues and successes in the process.
www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://"www.pennvaleblog.co.uk")
I just get a message saying the server IP address can't be found :confused2:
Sorry - Correct URL is http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
Thanks, David. A fascinating read.
nice blog and nice backscene too!
tim
Thanks. My friend Mark is a great painter. See his painting of the Flying Scotsman
https://bit.ly/2JGk6us (https://bit.ly/2JGk6us)
I have a nasty suspicion that I am going to have to take the railway down and store it for a while. My 92 year old mother-in-law is in need of the room. I am planning a 6' x 1'6" station to fiddle yard for the interregnum.
Sorry, it is a Britannia class!
Hi David,
Just come across this thread and think, as I had a large glass of sherry rather than my usual small one :D, I'll just say hi and look through properly tomorrow.
Thanks for posting and looking forward to the read in the morn.
Cheers weave :beers:
Sadly, having got this far, I have had to stop and take everything down. Sadly, for another reason, as my Mother-in-law, who is 92 and blind, is finally in bad enough health for us to step in and become carers for her. This means that she is moving into what has been, up to now, my railway room.
For more details of this and prospects for the future for Pennvale, check out the blog at http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
Very sad, David, but I wish your Mother-in-law better health.
Maybe losing the room wasn't that bad. I am now building a compact terminal layout in a corner of the bedroom. For details check out my blog at www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
I like the track plan and, as far as the fiddle yard goes, can only suggest you swivel the layout through 180 degrees and have a 'bolt on' fiddle yard you can add only when operating the layout.
I, too, used to have 'fun' with flexitrack in SCARM with the track end waving around all over the place but have subsequently managed to tame it :D
There is now a working railway. You can check out the progress at Ellerby is ready for action (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
Yesterday was the first run through of the schedule using the combination of my own software and JMRI. Read about it on my blog at www.pennvaleblog.co.uk (http://www.pennvaleblog.co.uk)
Being an old analogue dinosaur there's a lot of this waaaayyyyy over my head but I'm enjoying the blog. Have fun and try not to upset your other half too much with the extended fiddle yard!
Well, at 73 I should be a dinosaur but, fortunately, got into this computer stuff when I was young enough to understand it!