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[Galteemore]

21 minutes ago, Northroader said:

Hours running, five minutes shunting, (and that’s it) and an hour back. Good use of your time? Still ,you’re quite welcome, it’s all in a state of flux at present. (It always is, though) Do you ever get to the place in Gloucester? Maybe call by then.

Always good to see you Bob. Would be especially worthwhile if you helped me sort the pickups on my stuttery JT…..my department left Gloucester about twenty years ago and another part of the business  uses our old offices there so I don’t get back much. 

Edited September 12 by Galteemore

[Northroader]

OK, give me a bit of time to fix some wiring in, and you’re on. No DCC here, mind, we’re Primitive Fundamentalists.

Edited September 13 by Northroader

[Galteemore]

12 minutes ago, Northroader said:

OK, give me a bit of time to fix some wiring in, and you’re on. No DCC here, mind, we’re Primitive Fundamentalists.

Oh dear. I belong to the Order of Unreconstructed Luddites. We don’t even recognise the existence of DCC. But I’m sure we can get along  

[Galteemore]

Don’t know how I missed this before. Am planning a layout - a proper working one rather than a diorama as before - and turned to my trusty Gauge O Guild books. And look what jumps out….from our own @Northroader

Name clumsily expunged by me BTW - it’s not a fault in the original 

 

Edited September 20 by Galteemore

[Northroader]

Well, thank you for that, such a long time ago now. Me, expurgated in a model book! It did go quite well, I suppose the weak link was the sector table, my attempt to save space on the runaround. They could be found in real railway usage, in practice I found the sliding end made it very stiff to move with a loco sitting on top. The other drawback was really you needed to line the table up with whichever road you were shunting on, or sooner or later you’d get a wagon down in the pit.

I moved on to a traverser table, three roads on the table which slid under the  platform on one side or the other, so the pit was always covered. The table being mounted on a couple of drawer runners facing upwards, the ball runners making for a really smooth operation. The whole lot had.quite tidy, believable look.

These days I seem to moved towards “off stage” runrounds, even shorter layouts.

[jhb171achill]

On 13/9/2025 at 8:09 AM, Northroader said:

OK, give me a bit of time to fix some wiring in, and you’re on. No DCC here, mind, we’re Primitive Fundamentalists.

An excellent sect to belong to!