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GNRi1959
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Birch ply is so nice to work with
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The next step is the ballast, ground cover, boundary wall, railings and gates. I'm off to Australia in the morning for almost 4 weeks so I've plenty to do when I return.
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Met up with my good friend Joe McGrew today and walked him home. He joined the GNR(i) at the age of 15yrs as a boy porter and worked himself up to shunter before closure. He celebrated his 90th birthday a few months back. Today he was still able to talk in great detail of his days on the railway.
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They do indeed!
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A busy day in Omagh......
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Thanks, I know that as the rails entered the goods yard it became bogged in black, grimey ground cover up to sleeper level with manys a puddle. I guess there would have been the odd blade of grass and weed around too.
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Any suggestions on ground cover in busy, oily goods yard?
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David, as much as I like the idea of a fiddle yard, this baseboard will have no add-ons, just an exhibition piece. I'm bringing this project to an end. I started modelling again in December 2016 and I think I need a well earned break.
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Omagh Goods Yard has been transformed into a diorama measuring 1.5m x 700mm and will become an exhibition piece and with some luck become a permanent display in town, maybe going my previous model of Omagh GNRi station built in 1992. I've decided to go this way due to space restrictions mainly though all track is live and will be operation, if only across its 1.5m length. I will start landscaping and finishing this project which has been a real pleasure to build.
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Looking forward to seeing this develop David
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A brilliant flavour of Irish rail with wonderful scenery and realistic running. I really envy those long trains and realistic sounds, something well worth stopping off for here.
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David, I'm planning on staying away from any future solder joints involving track! I can do most things well, not solder! n
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Today I lifted the copperclad strips that were terrible and relayed the sections again. This time I arranged all my track joints over the baseboard joints with fish plates. I will go ahead with the wiring and check running and the lay ballast once tests are successful over several weeks
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When laying this short soldered section I broke it up into short lengths of track so that in the event of a soldering disaster I could lift it quite easily.
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I'm quite pleased with the first straight section shown below here but the section below isn't good. I think I'll lift this section and relay using a single piece of copperclad and not bother cutting strips of sleeper.
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One of the most difficult thing about railway modelling has to be achieving a nice clean, neat soldered track joint. Having just soldered my track to copperclad sleepers and cut the track, although a sound solder joint, it is brute ugly!
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This week's progress..... Took delivery of Coles yard crane Fitted guttering and downpipes by Dornaplas Fitted brass pattern makers dowels to baseboards joints Glued copperclad sleepers in position with Araldite rapid
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I started by sticking plasticard to the underside of the copperclad strips and will then secure these to the baseboard before soldering
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I have copper clad strips cut to solder rails at my baseboard joints. The copperclad strip is slightly thinner than the Peco sleepers. Do I pack up my strips or tin the underside if the rails with solder to correct the obvious gap of about 1.5mm.
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Looks very promising J, looking forward to seeing this progress.
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Looks so authentic, keep going it looks promising. I spent last weekend at Rosses Point, it is so typically Irish.
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Yes, I've been running an old tender driven 0-6-0 with wagons and it is running really well.
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Embankment foam cut and stuck in place. Sealed with brush coat of PVA.
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Embankments cut - will place high density foam (Kingspan type) and form embankments after wiring. Avoiding paris plaster this time. Also managed to pick up nice Coles Yard Crane on eBay to complete the scene in yard. Flat bed lorries and crane will look well.
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Drilled all holes today for droppers and point motors. Also installed Gaugemaster Shuttle and wiring to allow goods train to run independently in and out of goods store.
