A should have been railway
In the imaginary world of Port Dinllaen Lines, we get to indulge our interests and one of mine is signalling. Now this is an area arrife with nit-picker-dom, so I took the precaution of submitting my plans to the Oracle…
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I have always wanted an excuse to include at least one engine from the “missing” region – Southern. And so, when a Battle of Britain class loco, 603 Squadron, along with a rake of 6 Festival of Britain Pullmans was…
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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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As we progress to building the backscenes, there are three corners to consider the treatment of. I want them to have a rounded section to reduce the obviousness of the sharp corner, but to minimize the loss of space I wanted…
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I was sorting through some old stuff recently and came across the original sketch of the PDL systems. Although I was eventually going to use XtrackCAD to plan the system I find that paper and pencil works best for concepts…
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We modelers are holding good at holding reality at bay most of the time. We model vanished or fictitious worlds (or both), we use cunning and guile to disguise the reality that, even at scale, our models are not a true facsimile, but only…
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At 5pm today, the last section of track for Port Dinllaen lines was laid – at Trefor Junction. The “spike” was a screw and it was brass and not gold, but it still reprints a milestone after 4 years of…
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So after building the LCUT large signalbox as the maker intended, I was dissatisfied with the height – it did not look imposing enough. So I ordered some extra parts and added a scale 5′ “lift” to get it so…
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Module 5, the swing bridge has completed wiring. As part of this work, I have installed a cut-out switch so that when the bridge is operated power is cut not only to the swinging part, but also the three feet…
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