High-wire Act
Now that the last of the backdrops have been installed, I am doing research for the scenery that we want to represent. In the back corner, I have a place where the narrow-gauge slate quarry line disappears (to conceal its…
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Scenery
A Ty Bach for the Ty Mawr
LCUT provided a “large” signalbox – Welsh “Ty Mawr” -> Large House – which I assembled for Port Dinllaen – a >100 lever box but possibly using electo-pneumatic levers, which reduces the length. The assembly took 2 hours while watching the…
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Boxing Clever
The ideal place for a signal box at Pont Llynfi Junction (PLJ) is between the Bay platform and Platform 3. All the trains to and from Nantlle have to come to these platforms, while goods will only be one track further…
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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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All decked out
The second turntable (10.5″ diameter) or 66ft to scale has got its faux deck fitted. Parts included Plastruct HO checker plate and wood board sheets, and their 3/16th IBar as the edge of the deck, cantilevered out from the support…
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Spinning the platters that matter
Turntable #1 now has a deck. It was constructed from the SE Finecast small turntable kit. I replaced the kit girders with ones from the Dapol turntable kit, they had to be shortened by two panels on each side using…
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You turn me right round, baby, right round
Turntable #2 is constructed and trial fitted. Underneath a LocoMech Turntable Motor is in residence