Irishrailwayman

13 hours ago, NIR said:

Needs more Irish layouts!

I modestly omitted to include my own contribution:

12 hours ago, debrawenlock said:

Thanks for bringing your diesel depot layout. It is very clever with your use of mirrors and sound effects. I had to look behind the viaduct back scene to be sure there wasn't more behind the retaining wall!

My pleasure! It was great to present to such a large crowd and I got a great response. Looking forward to next year already.

Diesel Depot has had it's third public outing at Whitehead:

A great day with over 900 visitors! A few photos from around the show:

On 10/19/2019 at 12:58 AM, Glenderg said:

Looking good so far, but I'd get a box of 18 x 3mm screws and secure those reinforcing triangles and all other joints, 38mm centres. Those joints will eventually fail without proper wood glue and screws and undo all the hard work ye're about to venture into, despite alignment dowels. 

Best of luck with the project, looking forward to seeing the results! 

Richie. 

Once the position of the point motors is known, a 10mm hole is drilled for the actuating wire. Next the cross pieces can be glued in place using the hot-glue gun and all interfaces taped with glass-fibre tape which is then saturated with No-nonsense PVA. This results in a light but strong baseboard.

Track planning ongoing to ascertain the position of point motors before fitting cross sections beneath the baseboard.

Begobs!

Looking forward to representing Wexford Model Railway Club with "Diesel Depot" in IE mode with hopefully some visiting NIR locos:

6 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

That disappeared shortly afterwards.......

When they are gone, they are definitely gone!

I got two packs at Blackrock and Mr B had only one more left at that point...

We hope to have a few visiting NIR blue locos on the exhibit also!

Wexford Model Railway Club will be represented at Whitehead with OO "Diesel Depot". Looking forward to meeting you there:

9 hours ago, Glenderg said:

Looking good so far, but I'd get a box of 18 x 3mm screws and secure those reinforcing triangles and all other joints, 38mm centres. Those joints will eventually fail without proper wood glue and screws and undo all the hard work ye're about to venture into, despite alignment dowels. 

Best of luck with the project, looking forward to seeing the results! 

Richie. 

When the track plan is finalised cross pieces will be hot glued in place and fibre-glass webbing hard glued in place at all joints.

We selected the Heljan O Gauge Modern Depot kit to form the centrepiece for the layout. This was to enable us to plan out the track layout on the boards precisely. The kit goes together fairly well using poly liquid cement although lack of kit precision means that some gaps between sections will need to be masked with styrene strips.

So, the project so far:

I am helping a friend develop an O Gauge British Rail outline exhibition layout based in part on my recent OO Diesel Depot. We have started by developing three baseboards using the same techniques namely 6 mm Scandinavian birch plywood 100 mm lengths hot-glued to the underside of the baseboard. The end cheeks were formed from two sections of 6 m plywood stuck together with wood glue before using a pillar-drill to precisely mark the dowel points. Metal dowels were fitted to precisely line up the boards for quick assembly.

Diesel Depot is remotely controlled by the Roco/Fleischmann Z21 DCC system via a tablet allowing the locos to be controlled on one half of the screen and the points/turnouts on the other. This means that the layout can be controlled from the front enabling better interaction with visitors at exhibitions!

1 hour ago, Past-Avenue said:

Looks great and a lot off attention to detail on your layout Gerry 

Your oil wagons look the biz there too!

Diesel Depot is in preparation for the Wexford MRC Open Day on October 20th 2019. On display will be CIE Black and Tan liveried locos:

I used more than 20 Alphagraphix kits for my "Ballybeg" layout in OO. The wagon kits work well too in this scale.

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

Nice station with the DART, Mike. Looks like Manorhamilton....

or Glenfarne (based on Alphagraphix kit?)...

Headhunters Barber Shop and Railway Museum is situated on Darling Street in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh just around the corner from the Cathedral Hall where Erne MRC hold their annual exhibition. The museum has been mentioned in posts on IRM previously but I thought I would share a few photos of some of the huge collection of material which is beautifully presented in this building. Well worth a visit if you are ever at the exhibition or in the area.

A couple of views from around the show:

Diesel Depot has won the Best New Layout Award and a Perpetual Shield for Wexford MRC on its first exhibition outing at Enniskillen! Thanks to Erne MRC for organising the exhibition and for their hospitality.

26 minutes ago, David Holman said:

Good luck with the show and hope it all runs well.

Thanks for that David. We met briefly last year at Telford where I admired your lovely "Arigna" layout! Gerry

Thanks Noel. One of our members is looking at replicating this design in O Gauge!

Regards,

Gerry