A should have been railway
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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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 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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Trefor means “large village”. In PDL it is the junction between the lines to PD (right) and to Afon Wen (left). In the model it serves as a way to form a continuous loop as the Afon Wen line goes…
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.. when its next to narrow gauge track. (even if it is OO). This is OO9 and is for the train to the stale quarries at Nantlle.
Turntable #2 is constructed and trial fitted. Underneath a LocoMech Turntable Motor is in residence
So the whole of PD with the exception of the LNE shed and turntable is ready for inversion and wiring. That means we now have 3 modules in that condition. (PD platforms, PD throat, PD LMR and GWR MPDs). PLJ North…
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The work continues, all the underlay is stuck down and the work of customizing points is underway. This side looks better but is actually further behind. You can see the marks that start the planning for the cattle ramp that…
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As I moved through track alignment, and important consideration is the bridges that break up the scene visually. Peter Denny and Iain Rice are both believers in “framing” a scene, and to that end there are two bridges at Port…
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Port Dinllaen, that is. Here are the 4 platforms based on the Holyhead layout, surrounding a central dock. Plus on one side carriage sidings and a Goods Out warehouse and on the other a Horse Dock and Goods In. The entire…
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