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The track will be painted using Testors rail brown and rail tie brown markers and then ballasted using Woodland Scenics grey blend ballast like the rest of the layout.

Getting there!

I have never been happy with the track arrangement at Glen More. The kickback siding was difficult to shunt and didn't look prototypical. Today I took a deep breath and started ripping up track. The photos show the new track arrangement roughed in to see how things fit. The Waterford fiddel yard will also be relaid using curved points to extend the tracks from 11 to12 20 foot wagons and a loccomotive.

A desolate scene West of Glen More where track has now been lifted.

The platform surface is heavy high quality card from a craft store which was painted grey. The photo of Grange shows how the platform, station forecourt and approach road was cut from one piece of card. The platform edging is from Peco.

A loaded beet wagon is picked up at Grange. The empty wagon was dropped off earlier by the beet special.

The beet special shunts Keilys Cross and proceeds to Grange where it meets the Cork Waterford passenger train.

I'm waiting for "Rails Through Waterford" covering Ballinacourty New Ross Rosslare and Bennettsbridge and everything inbetween!

The beet special arrives at Keilys Cross.

That is a tar depot based on the one from the North Kerry yard in Tralee. John Mayner posted a picture of it on the site a few years ago which I used to estimate dimensions.

A major rebuild is planned for Glen More with much of the material for the job on hand. Posting photos over the last few days in my way of avoiding having to start lifting track and ripping out scenery.

A few more beet special photos.

Needing a reason to run the IRM cement bubbles on my ficticious South Watreford line led me on an internet search for cement manufacturing in Ireland. Drinagh, South of Wexford had a cement factory at one time and according to Johnsons Atlas and Gazetteer had a siding until 1911. In my alternative reality cement continuead to be manufactured here until the mid seventies when the plant at Platin came online. The photos show a Drinagh Cork cement train meet with the Cork Waterford goods which is shunting at Glen More. We are also adding a few vans of beet pulp to occasional beet specials. Beet pulp was a byproduct of the sugar manufacturing process which was sold to beet farmers for cattle feed.

Thanks Paul. I obtained a few wiring harness for peco point motors from hattons and thought I would make up my own to simplify wiring (I hate soldering). I guess I'd be better off biting the bullet and solder wires to the motors before installing them.

Having very strong opinions regarding layout design I tend to refrain from offering too many suggestions on the subject on this site. However having followed your ongoing design delimma with great interest I feel it is time to offer my input. My suggestions, a simple branch line terminus to fiddle yard along three sides of the shed incorporating a turntable, a one or two road loco shead and service facilities. Build it high enough to allow comfortable operation from a tall stool or standing and allowing space under the fiddle yard for a workbench. A short branch to a factory/industrial district/Harbour in front of the fiddle yard which would be hidden by removable low relief buildings. Regarding oo guage or 21 mm, I don't wish to dissusuade anyone from trying broad guage but remember building an Irish layout will present plenty of challanges with rolling stock and buildings. Don't bite off more than you can chew espically if it is your first model railway.

I am planning some changes to the layout and need advice regarding powering Peco point motors. Two crossovers are planned which will require two points to be operated simultaenusly. I am planning to use Capicator discharge unit and a power source will be required. I was also hoping to use solderless female connectors to hook up the point motors if podssible to avoid soldering in the vicinity of my foam baseboard. What size wire should be used? What output should the transformer have and what size female connectors will work with Peco point motors? Any advise greatly appreciated.

Any thoughts about what you would model if you spent some time in N Dakota John?

Here are a few photos showing the layout in its setting to accompany the track plan. There was orignally a work bench under Keilys Cross which I moved to the garage to give a clear uncluttered area.

It would be nice to see a version with round buffers which are correct for the first batch of these wagons which had the US ride control bogies.

Actually the footbridge has already been lowered by 10 steps and I may remove a few more. Before starting on it I found some photos on line showing the model lowered even further but the overall proportions seemed off, possibly because the model may be too wide.

Playing around with different locations for the footbridge in Glen More.