It’s alive!
Well, I got what I hope was the final (short) bug out of the wiring and so trains can now run around the entire layout. Lots of track cleaning is needed from glue spots and the like. My Class 09…
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Track Laying
A Dremelling we will go
When I place all the point motors, I find that things have sometimes moved since I drilled the holes for the actuators. So work is needed, but the track is down. So the technique I use is to use a Dremel…
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Here we go round the ….
Modules 11, 12 and 13 are complete! This leaves just two to go (all be it 2 of the most involved). I started assembling the ones that are complete – all around the walls.
Cobalt En Passant
Under Nantlle there is one point motor position where the hidden tracks are too high for a cobalt to fit “normally”. At this point I have used a 90 degree adaptor to allow the motor to be placed horizontally and…
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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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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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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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Trefor Junction
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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