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  1. Irishrailwayman
    Super job well done. Is this a never-leaves-home layout or could it be exhibited?
  2. Irishrailwayman
    Moving swiftly along, the wiring has been completed on the first board using the David McCabe dropper boards to form the DCC bus-bar. Each wire is colour-coded, labelled and numbered indicating which position on the bus-bar it occupies enabling fault finding to be expedited. No fishplates are used but each individual section of track has its own DCC feed. Cobalt slow-action digital point motors are being used for this project which also throw the polarity of the frogs.
  3. Irishrailwayman
    The board under the diesel shed tracks is cut to make up the inspection pits. Wood sides are glued in place beneath the board and these are lined with stiff card, finished with polyfilla and painted. The track was replaced and the outside sleepers pinned in place before cutting out the centre of the sleeper to form the pits. Additional details will be added including steps down and fall-plates.
  4. Irishrailwayman
    Best of luck to MRSI in Warley from all at Wexford MRC.
  5. Irishrailwayman
    Ernie Shepherd and Gerry Beesley published a book "Dublin and South Eastern Railway" in 1998 which mentions Palace East a few times and includes photos and a track plan. Published by Midland Publishing Ltd ISBN 1 85780 082 6. Worth a look.
  6. Irishrailwayman
    A couple of Alphagraphix card kits in 7mm built recently by John Walker of Wexford MRC and currently on display on the club's test tracks. Note the fully detailed interiours in the Signal Cabins:
  7. Irishrailwayman
    Continuing to lay track - shaping up well:
  8. Irishrailwayman
    Great! Would you like to exhibit at the Wexford Model Railway Exhibition on 9th/10th May 2020?
  9. Irishrailwayman
    Fantastic project! Do you plan to exhibit this layout?
  10. Irishrailwayman
    Each section of track is independently powered with no fish-plates used (just as developed for Little Siddington). The droppers will be brought to (D McCabe's) design board as part of the bus-bar. I guess BR Blue is the UK equivalent of our black/tan or Supertrain era and is the livery of choice of Barry the owner of this layout. You may have seen his mighty diesels on LS which should in time grace this new layout also. I have fond memories of BR Blue from the 1980's when I travelled by Interail through the UK to Europe as a student.
  11. Irishrailwayman
    Progressing well with track laying with dropper wires soldered beneath the rails once their precise location is checked:
  12. Irishrailwayman
    Some turntables survived beyond steam because of the need to turn 121 single cab locomotives!
  13. Irishrailwayman
    I modestly omitted to include my own contribution:
  14. Irishrailwayman
    My pleasure! It was great to present to such a large crowd and I got a great response. Looking forward to next year already.
  15. Irishrailwayman
    Diesel Depot has had it's third public outing at Whitehead:
  16. Irishrailwayman
    A great day with over 900 visitors! A few photos from around the show:
  17. Irishrailwayman
    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.
  18. Irishrailwayman
    Track planning ongoing to ascertain the position of point motors before fitting cross sections beneath the baseboard.
  19. Irishrailwayman
    Begobs!
  20. Irishrailwayman
    Looking forward to representing Wexford Model Railway Club with "Diesel Depot" in IE mode with hopefully some visiting NIR locos:
  21. Irishrailwayman
    When they are gone, they are definitely gone!
  22. Irishrailwayman
    I got two packs at Blackrock and Mr B had only one more left at that point...
  23. Irishrailwayman
    We hope to have a few visiting NIR blue locos on the exhibit also!
  24. Irishrailwayman
    Wexford Model Railway Club will be represented at Whitehead with OO "Diesel Depot". Looking forward to meeting you there:
  25. Irishrailwayman
    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.
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