Had a wonderful time at Melbourne - took plenty of video of the general workings at Sunshine and also took a XPT ride to Albury and back - here are some videos:
NR Long End Leading from Somerton:
A70 on an Up Pass:
NR120 on Down Overland:
More to come later. :)
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Myrtle West
Hi All
It's been a while since I last posted anything that is relevant to my layout. This is because I have gone away and changed my layout for the umpteen time! Unfortunately I have pretty much thought about and layed out all possible layouts and schematics!
At the end of the day I think less is more. Anyway here is a hand drawn plan of the layout.
The major concept is that the 'main town' is actually staging - with a couple of industries 'just' out of town serviced by the local pilot. These 'just out of town' industries are modeled - so there is some shunting involved, but mainly this is a scenery based layout - sit back and enjoy type - BTW, all trains approach and depart Myrtle West quite slowly, so the actual run time from staging and back into staging (main town) is close to three real minutes.
I learnt that modeling a town, with three yard tracks and a main line, together with a Goods Shed and all the associated points and curves eats up too much space and not doable to my satisfaction with the space I have.
See diagram for further details (click to enlarge diagram).
Any comments much appreciated.
Cheers!
It's been a while since I last posted anything that is relevant to my layout. This is because I have gone away and changed my layout for the umpteen time! Unfortunately I have pretty much thought about and layed out all possible layouts and schematics!
At the end of the day I think less is more. Anyway here is a hand drawn plan of the layout.
The major concept is that the 'main town' is actually staging - with a couple of industries 'just' out of town serviced by the local pilot. These 'just out of town' industries are modeled - so there is some shunting involved, but mainly this is a scenery based layout - sit back and enjoy type - BTW, all trains approach and depart Myrtle West quite slowly, so the actual run time from staging and back into staging (main town) is close to three real minutes.
I learnt that modeling a town, with three yard tracks and a main line, together with a Goods Shed and all the associated points and curves eats up too much space and not doable to my satisfaction with the space I have.
See diagram for further details (click to enlarge diagram).
Any comments much appreciated.
Cheers!
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