Raising the LoMacs
Two new bogie wagons for 5 pounds a piece! Two of my refugees from my friend Philip Reed’s train set of about 1980 have made the transition to fine-scale. The lo-Mac are used to transport loads like rails for the…
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Yearly Archive: 2016
The gang’s all here
Now the Coaling tower is ready, we can get more of a sense of the visual layout of the sheds. On the left the old shed, then the turntable, the new North View Shed, the ash tower and the coaling tower….
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Making Tracks
Now that the sheds have been built, the tracks can be aligned. To allow the inspection pits to be placed, I had to rout out a quarter of an inch or so. So out came my Fostner bits again. Some minor…
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New wheels for old!
I have some old rolling-stock which doesn’t fit a Code 75 track. The wheels bump over the ops of the chairs and cause derailment at points and crossovers. A lot of it is 1970s Hornby, which I can update with new…
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Ensuring MPD Flow
With PD we expect to have a continuous flow of engines that need to be cared for at the end of a run and made ready for service quickly. A boat arrival/departure will generate at least 5 trains inbound within…
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MPD Old Shed
PD will have three engine sheds The WR shed which holds banking and other engines for the line to Pwhelli The LMR “North Light” Shed that houses the engines after they have been watered, coaled and had the fire dropped turned…
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Capacities
A recent survey of the PDL storage yard, sidings and platforms shows their maximum capacities. [table id=2 /]
Bridge Prototypes
My son, Spencer, had chosen a science project of rating bridge designs on their load-bearing capacity. He picked three, the trestle, beam (box girder), truss and suspension. A few dollars worth of basswood later… Beam – This started out as…
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Pont Llyfni Junction South
The last board to not have track on it was Pont Llyfni Junction (PLJ) – South End. But by reshuffling the boards, even though we are not ready to put them into their proper spaces yet because we need to…
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Tan-Y-Graig
Tan-Y-Graig means “below the rock” – the rock in this case being a large hill that has iron age forts on top. At this point we have a passing station on the WR single line from Pwhelli to PD. As…
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