Sean

excellent! such news allows me to budget towards ye're other wares and put them on the backburner for a while. out of mind

they have neither confirmed nor denied such things as of yet we can only pray that they have set up infront of 071 for a very specific and subliminal reason............... those videos have me excited now.

Hi railer are these still available

Finally managed to get my hands on a high tech hopper loading machine from 1987 Fuelling area is built, I can paint and detail it at a later time. I've been trying to find an accurate representation of this forklift yoke in oo but to no avail. Everything is just too small or too modern. Or both. Took a punt on this yoke for £10 off hattons and although it's hilariously overscale it does lift to roughly the correct height so once the cage is cut down and a 1/76 cab is sourced and fitted I think it might fit the bill just nicely.

at least the model will be more accurate on oo track now

Freshly laid and almost ready to go, ran out of straights for the last two sidings but that was anticipated. A PILE of new containers. Won't live here permenantly but will be on and off trains.

brilliant never thought of looking here! only want 5-10 cages in total for what im doing so wouldnt be too hard to put those together if nothing is available. are they the exact same keg moulding?

on the lookout for either keg flats or just the keg loads that came on their own. if anybody knows of any let me know. Regards

We are the mods! We are the mods! We are we are we are the mods! A suspicious seargent prepares to take a U turn..........

I would recommend taking a look at google docs, its a fully fledged word processor that lives in the cloud and autosaves, even if the computer ye are writing one spontaneously combusts the work will be in the "cloud" and retrieve-able from anywhere. theres also the advantage of ye both being able to log into the document at once from seperate computers anywhere on the planet and make edits. its literally all i used through 4 years of college and super helpful considering i was a long distance commuter, and then lockdowns happened so it became even more heavily used.

Something completely different has been happening! Why yes, that's a ten foot base board. Nothing special it's literally just some boards that are screwed together in order to let me run round and round trains. It won't be modelled all that much except for placing the odd building around it in due course. A nice branch line track plan has been established as I don't really want a double tracked main line as it would feel a bit too tail chasey and go against everything else I've modelled so far. in practical terms it could be seen as the mother of all fiddle yards. As usual the timber is all scraps that someone was getting rid of so this lot has been done for a grand total of zero, directly mounted onto two old bedroom dressers so I guess that's somewhere to put my growing collection of small green cardboard boxes...... And once this last connecting board is in place I'm ready to lay some track! Loads to come this week. Supplies have been procured for the final phases of the terminus, and all the track for the baseboard is in the post.

I wouldn't call it a security breach per se but I dont think it would be a massive stretch for an employee somewhere along the delivery chain to be casually harvesting data from the outside of envelopes as he goes about his ordinary daily routine handling said envelopes? I too had been bombarded with them daily for a good few months but they had all but stopped until this today, and as i am literally due a delivery today it does make me a little suspicious. I would say i am more tech savvy than most, part of that generation that grew up with computers and the internet. the scams become more and more sophisticated over time and a couple in recent times have had me doing a double take for the real thing. Its probabaly me being a little paranoid too but at the same time it definitely wouldnt surprise me, gonna keep an eye on it for the next order i make from outside the eu zone.

just got one of those scam "click this link and pay 2 euro in VAT" dodgy texts for the first time in a long time, first time in a long time im actually waiting on uk post too so i almost clicked, seems a bit too coincidental if you ask me.

https://www.earthwonders.co/nature/how-hollywood-portrays-other-countries/ might be easier than you think ....

here we go again from hornby 1995 locomotive, 2022 prices. and not even into their budget range.

im thinking the same, it just draws me in a lot more and the right just feels like a twin tail chaser the more i look at it. i think the fact that the wye is flowing rather than being a rigid shape is really helping too.i can already imagine trains snaking through it as another one sits in wait. i see a total of 7 stabling points on that too with plenty of potential to add block detection and train automation so its not really ever going to feel like im running just a single train. My dcc controller only has like 1.5amps of power too so im quite limited in that regard.

after an outstanding run with project 42 and building up a small rake of those I dont think i would be to interested in a project 47 for a while yet if at all. too many other great things id like to see done first.

hey guys so to make a long story short, I have finally cleared out a space that will allow me to run a full loop of 00 track. have been plugging away in railmodeller for a few days now working with various plans and one thing that is infuriating me is that there does not seem to be a third radius point available at all, a standard hornby point is a perfect second radius curve and you can put points anywhere on a bend without breaking the track geometry. the express turnout is some ungodly large size of radius but it doesnt actually align with any standard settrack geometry. from what i am reading and all experimentation on railmodeller leads to at least some flexitrack being used. all of the larger peco points seem to suffer from the exact same issue. curved points kind of work but only if you want an inward turnout. ie from 3rd to 2nd radius but there does not appear to be a larger option to get from third to fourth radius. to demonstrate here are 2 track plans explaining just what i am getting at, they also lay the foundation for what im going to ask next... the area im having trouble with is where im trying to put the points within the curves. in the left drawing i am able to make a perfect loop of second and third radius track without breaking geometry at all as all of the points follow the geometry of the trackwork without issue. in the right picture however i am trying to recreate the point work on a third radius curve and as you can see it takes a mish mash of extra components to even complete the loop and once you do its basically impossible to hold the double tracking geometry and its not really a true third radius as its made up of components of second and third radiuses and extended slightly with a quarter straight as the 2 tracks were ontop of one another. third radius point work would rapidly solve these headaches but from what i have seen around nothing at all is available. if anybody knows of a solution such as slightly extending a standard point with short straights please do let me know what you've done to get around this problem, or maybe im wrong and one of the larger peco sizes does line up i am open to correction in this case. but then i keep asking myself do i actually NEED the two running loops on this layout. the wye is essential and leads off to my terminus layout which is based on a rural branch line somewhere and thats really more so what im interested in running and modelling rather than double tracked mainline. furthermore, i just feel like the left plan just flows way more naturally and offers a bit more operational interest whilst whats on the right feels a lot more train setty and rigid as it really is squeezing the last of the last out of the given space. although the track probabaly wont be modelled to much.i still see potential on the left one for an island station in the middle of the run around loop on the left and a small hopper loading facility on the inner loop of track at the top of the base board. the shape of the outer loops also breaks with the train set convention of a tail chasing oval and offers a bit of variation in the trains route. plenty of places to stable trains also. its not like there wont be able to be 2 on the running line at once. i cant really have any of these things in the double tracked iteration of the layout. i just see 2 loops where i can run a couple of trains at the same time but otherwise i actually see a layout that i might see as less useful in the long run. ive always seen 2 running loops as an essential part of a good and large model railway, but i have been seriously questioning that assumption within these plans and what i want to achieve with them. the footprint for both plans is the exact same size so either fits just fine onto an 8x4 sheet, which is what the grey box signifies on the left drawing. would love to hear what others think Sean

Thats a lovely piece WRENN

lol i only found them by pure chance as well as i am moving the layout at the moment and just caught the line in the plastic with my eye as i was setting them back up. I actually bought some earlier in the week. but im planning on buying some more now.

when did the coloured signals start and when did they become more widespread? i wouldnt mind trying the disused semaphore alongside a working coloured but im worried that may be slightly too modern looking for my rural backwater theme that ive got going.

looking for some advice on signalling my layout which is set in the IR era. were semaphores still used during this period or had anything moved onto "traffic light" signals like those used today.. i prefer the idea of lit signals so i can incorporate them into the computerised side of the layout.... would it just typically of been a single signal to signal the approach to the station or would there have been further signals to signal the sidings? Id also like to add a few lineside signs leaving the station such as a speed limit but i also do not really know where these typically would have been placed or which ones would be needed to accurately model such a thing. any help is appreciated seah

Just noticed that these Hornby containers have moving doors. They kept that well hidden!

Didnt you know its bad form to comment on their age

That's great to know, placed a hattons order last night so am in prayer mode that it lands safely.