Been a long time between posts, but will slowly bring it up to date,, basic shape of the land form now in place, now to cut and shape the landform, now to play snowman, one of the best things you can buy is a Ozito wet and dry vacuum cleaner, then do small sections at a time, it just makes it easier to clean up, that way you don’t have ‘snow’ everywhere
THE HOME LAYOUT
Monday, April 27, 2020
installing the landform
Been a long time between posts, but will slowly bring it up to date,, basic shape of the land form now in place, now to cut and shape the landform, now to play snowman, one of the best things you can buy is a Ozito wet and dry vacuum cleaner, then do small sections at a time, it just makes it easier to clean up, that way you don’t have ‘snow’ everywhere
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Track wiring stage 4
Not going to bore
with pictures of wire under the track but this part of stage 4 now
wired up and I am running trains. The extra wiring you see is for the reversing loop, point motor and bus wire for stage 4 ready to be connected to the main bus when stage 1 is constructed
When I have trains running I get inspired to carry on, so all this section of track was tested and passed and a enjoyable day or two of testing running locos up the grade
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
The Track Plan
The idea of the layout came about because my good mate
Marcus has a layout based on the Main North and when you are running trains you
have to bank your train up a 1;40 grade from Murrurundi to Ardglen. I spent
many enjoyable hours being the banker, so it was decided to have a grade on the
home layout. I had most of the locos and rolling stock for the time period of
the mid sixties so Tumulla bank out in the Central West was chosen for a home
layout. The layout was planned for a 7M x 3.5M garage, so when I eventually
stopped building and exhibiting layouts that part of the garage was for the
Home Layout
Another good friend Garry has a layout based on the
Newcastle to Fassifern line http://newcastle-modelrail.com/
and I was hooked in running and terminating trains on his Newcastle station. So
the dilemma was how to build a layout from Newcastle to Blayney so I then can incorporate
Tumulla Bank, ambitious you say so did I, and then my wife and I decided that
Sydney was getting too crowded so we moved to the upper Hunter Valley. The
bonus was 6M X6M garage waiting for a layout to be built
So as part of the move I had to sell all my exhibition
layouts as there was no room for them as I wasn’t going to exhibit anymore. I was
building my Home Layout. Mullet Creek went to the Auscision shop as a display
layout and some good friends bought the others. All except Whereist as that was
my favourite because I liked shunting and making up trains
How to incorporate Whereisit into Tumulla Bank and Newcastle
Station all in a 6M x 6M garage, impossible unless you build something based on
all these features
Stations ; Wherecastle; [based on Newcastle]
Whereisit; this part already done
Wherenow; branch line station from Whereist also the home of the BS
fertilizer factory
Wherearewe; on the line to nowhere loop and then comes back [2 level]
Then the train going
the other way goes to Somewhere loop and then comes back
From Whereist the train has to encounter Wheremulla Bank 1;63 the banker will be stationed at Whereisit
for trains over 400 tons for the push up Wheremulla Bank
The layout will be an operational with some scenery
Monday, October 8, 2018
Finally starting the home layout
Well, after 27 years of building and exhibiting layouts it’s
time to build my home layout. I moved to the Upper Hunter Valley about 7 months
ago and now have a 6m x 6m garage to fill with a home layout. My exhibition
layout Whereisit is the start of my home layout but before the first bit of
track laying starts the garage door has to be filled in and made a wall
Whereisit was last exhibited at the AMRA Vic branch Caulfield
exhibition 2013 and then stored in the garage where I lived in Syd. It has five
years of dust to blow off and a good clean up before it becomes part of the
home layout, but as a modeller who can’t wait, some track was cleaned, plugged
into a Powercab and a couple of locos ran, 3 hours of testing and all good, now
back to the wall
Stay tuned track plan coming up next
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installing the landform
Been a long time between posts, but will slowly bring it up to date,, basic shape of the land form now in place, now to cut and shape the...
How it Started
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Well, after 27 years of building and exhibiting layouts it’s time to build my home layout. I moved to the Upper Hunter Valley about 7 mont...
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Been a long time between posts, but will slowly bring it up to date,, basic shape of the land form now in place, now to cut and shape the...
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The idea of the layout came about because my good mate Marcus has a layout based on the Main North and when you are running trains you ha...