Kirley

Thanks Guys for the pics

Still working away on the Sulzer, it seems to be taking forever. Anyway Glenderg to the rescue. He kindly sent me a “roof kit” based on the work he is doing on his own Sulzer. So it was out with the scraper blade and remover all the resin roof detail. Not as good as his finished product but to me a big improvement on what was there before. I used the same aperture for the roof grill mounting and then noticed it was not in the centre of the roof line but will have to do. Also had to realign some of the mounting points for the gangways. Started to look at the lights before assembling all the body parts. Unfortunately the LED’s provided are of 2 different sizes, the white are .85mm including the wires but the red LED’s are 1.8mm including the wires. May have to rethink my method of installing them or else try and source smaller red LED's.

I’m sure you feel a well disserved sense of achievement getting it to work .. so there will be no stopping you now!

Well done Noel, you did not hang about, are we to get a video soon?

I take it you are refering to the coach the Sulzer is pulling, if so it's just one of the Bachmann CIE coaches they did.

Sorry I misread your question. Beside the K class is a Bachmann Class 20 chassis patiently waiting for a SilverFox Hunslet body, once the Sulzer is on the rails.

If you go to Page 2, item 15 of Kirley's Projects you will get all more pics there.

Your layout is is making good progress, looking forward to seeing it develop.

I know, it's only when I viewed the video did I notice the speed on the 121. It's one of the models I still have to convert to DCC so when I make the odd visit to the roof space I try and give all the models there a quick run just to keep them in working order.

Good luck on developing your layout

Well done Frank, and a well put together video.

Thanks for the pictures of the roof detail, even better than the drawings.

If you go to Page 2, item 15 of Kirley's Projects you will get all the information there.

A test run of the white ghost on my old layout (DC) See video here

Thanks Steven, I'll programe my Sky+ so as not to miss any.

Patience and skill displayed with a good result.

A promising list

Good stuff Patrick, it's coming along great and your rolling stock adds that realism.

Thanks Colm for the 'heads up' on this event. As you say the venue would not be hard to find in Castlerock.

After all that wiring I had to take a break and run some trains. Class 201 No. 229 with an Mk 4 rake Class 201 No. 8208 with an Enterprise rake NIR CAF 3000. Here is a short video:

I take it from your pictures you are going with the brass chassis and you have a decoder fitted. Have you test ran it yet, looking forward to seeing it finished.

Vibrant is the word that jumps out when I see this layout, excellent work.

I’m sure it’s a great feeling of achievement Stephen to reach this stage at last; you must reward yourself with a few hours just watching them go round and round.

I redid the Control Panel Box making it larger and then brought all the wires from the Points into it, red (Storage) on the left hand side and blue (Main section) on the right with an area left for the remainder of the layout yet to be built. If you think adding dropper wires was fun wait until you try this! The lid for all the control switches has been covered in Perspex and switches for the Storage Section added. Now to connect it all up. It seems ages since I ran a Train!!!