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Robert Comerford
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This shows the method for making a curved track reusing C100 rail now I no longer have my track laying jig.
regards Bob
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Robert Comerford
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Thanks Si.
I have never found where I could alter the thread name or I would have done it on the original one.
cheers
Bob
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Robert Comerford
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Hi Si, according to the media is is now spring... pity the planet does not recognise that fact :>)
However that said it is quite warm overnight here. Overcast and raining so the temp range likely to be a minimum of 12C and a maximum of 13C.
Winter has been very mild. About 5C warmer than normal with minimums close to 0C compared to the usual -5C and only two days at -7C. This warm usually starts about mid September.
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Bob
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Neville R
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Hey Bob.
Looks like I'm following you around but fear not just having a sticky beak at what's happening here and saw your thread.
Since I haven't been in Australia for the past Month, West Australia or should I say Perth has had some massive doses of rain and cold now I 'm back it's still chilly at night but no rain during the day just sunny so it might be time to clean up the car port a bit and see what I can find in all those boxes that have somehow survived the winter.
I need some Kadees so I hope there are some on the freight cars that are hidden away and at the same time I will get a box of turnouts together for you, well, at least put them aside at the moment.
Take care.
Neville.
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Robert Comerford
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Hi Nev, it takes some days to get back in the swing again I find after overseas trips. Often the priorities have changed while being away and given time to think. I have some friends here in town who just arrived back from a month in blighty. They went for a daughters second wedding and did some train and car sightseeing while they were there. cheers Bob
p.s. I have been busy doing the first of the lawnmowing today and soon it will be preparing the veggie patches.
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Tony M
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Hi Bob, pure awesome, gee I will have to agrees with what everyone is saying use of scrap stuff into something well done, are you scratch building your points and track as well.
I have a thread on Being 737 fuselage for a train load and scratch built a 737 in 87 scale because you can't 737 kits in the scale the closed scale is 100th scale.
Couldn't actually cut up a perfect 737 kit and stuff it up, why had a go of building my own, used 1mm sheet cardboard and plaster to shave the front nose, and glues the sections together. Next fuselage I will make in full piece as I had trouble lining up mainly the tail section, took a month to build.
Did notice in a earl post you get snow in Glen Innes, how cold des it drop for it to snow, we have to go to Warwick, stay in Warwick for the weekend because the snow doesn't last long I have never seen snow will get the chance one day.
You said you were in your third decade in AMRA, I am in my second, being in AMRA for 16 years, did you get your pen and note book from AMRA nice pen
Tony.
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Robert Comerford
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Thanks Tony, if you look at the last page of my original thread you will see some pics of the points I made years ago.
They are made from recycled code 100 from HO track, pc board sleepers (every 5th or 6th one) then wood sleepers to fill in the gaps .For most of the time I just used balsa out of my r/c plane scrap box but these have sugar pine ones made by Kappler. The plain track was made in a jig, fully assembled for the straight sections and only one side soldered and glued for any curved sections; the other rail added once in place. I mainly reused them this time to save on cost of points and/or time to build new ones out of Peco C124. A friend of mine built about 36 points in C124 including slips for his new layout as a first project.
It doesn't have to be that cold on the ground to snow, it is more about upper air temperature. In Glen it can drop to about -12C during winter.
I actually said it is my third time as an AMRA member.I first joined in the 70's but dropped out of model railways a couple of times over the years to do other things.
Yes, it is a nice pen.
The 737 sounds like a good train load project, by doing it yourself you get something unique too.
If you want to see a layout done on an even tighter budget than mine have a look at Greg Hunter's 'G' scale layout. Very well suited to the outdoors and runs very nicely on battery power.
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/satr/satr.htm
I don't know if you ever saw the layout 'Bolivia' at the Brisbane exhibition. It is based on the area around here. One of the three operators was me.
cheers
Bob
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Robert Comerford
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Being the lazy sod that I am, I find that not having to do weathering for outdoor structures a boon... nature does it for me :>
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Robert Comerford
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A NSWGR layout based in the late 50's/60's was exhibited at the Gauge O Guild convention at Telford in the UK last weekend. The convention is open to the public as well as GOG members.
A big and expensive exercise for the owners of this exhibition layout to transport from Australia to the UK and now to have to be returned.
Done especially for the 60th anniversary of the guild.
Here is a clip of it as it was a couple of years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6CQoOg2V8
cheers
Bob
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Tony M
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Hi Bob, yeah I saw the last page of your other post, I bought a few years back those PVA brass plated strips to build my own point will give it a go.
Gee the coldest it has got up here in winter is -5 degrees and we have very heavy frost, this winter was a mild winter, not frost.
That is some layout your friend has built going by his track plan and all scratch built, I am flat out doing a day here and there, have a disabled son but working on the layout tomorrow.
Friday I will be working on fitting a spring to a kadee on one of my NR class locos and replacing the draw bar on the Flying Scot duel tende with those Lima stile couplers, the second water tender is powered.
Yeah I am the only member that is modelling the 737 as a train load, plan to build four of them including a 757 which is the same width as the 737. Got the wind turbine blades as a train load too but on the drawing board, have made one so far, need to be able to bend on curves, I am thinking of using fiver glass, hope it will bend the blade lengths are 20 inches long, modelled on the 45mete blades.
I was at AMRA's show on the Saturday was on one of the exit doors close to the coffee shop, gee we would of passed each other not knowing, are you going to next years Brisbane train show.
Tony.
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Tony M
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Hi Bob how has the repair gang going with the repairs on the platform, that seams to be our night mare with timber outside mother nature sure can do some damage.
Some of the blokes on another forum are using that plastic wood for track bases, expensive way to do.
Wen t to AMRA yesterday a lot more members there was quitter in the afternoon I managed to run my Indian Pacific with 18cars and two NR class locos. Had a couple of issues with the coaches derailing, I am going to have to fix the couplers as some have the bigger Lima couplers and small could of being the problem.
Here is a pic of the clubs garden railway they have three gauges
We had the first storms yesterday for spring, nice rain good for the grass.
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Robert Comerford
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Hi Tony, the only wood on the platform is the balsa sides.
That and the ply station and goods shed are issues despite being given many coats of shellac before painting.
They will be replaced with styrene ones eventually. All my styrene structures have only to be painted occasionally.
Yes, I have been there and watched a couple of trains running one day.
Long trains with bogie mount couplers will tend to pull the bogies sideways causing the problem you describe.
You can read the materials used on my layout on the start of the other thread...very little wood.
Bob
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Tony M
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Hi Bob I won't that problem with the layout being modular set up, the only hassle is setting it up and packaging it up.
With Sydney Central station building will have to build it out of MDF board 3mm with pine frames.
Looks like I will have to bite the dust and body mount the couplers to the carriage body, big job got about 30 to do, the only way to have a smooth running train.
Tony.
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Robert Comerford
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With many wet days lately I have been doing more work indoors. A job I hate is bulk ballasting however it needs to be done. A cheat method I often used when laying track I knew was to only have a short life was to spray the track and ballast area a dark grey and bring the ground cover up to the edge of where the ballast would be. There is not much room for altering things on this layout so I will just have to get on with it. :> Here is a photo of part of what I have done so far. cheers Bob Attachment: ballasting 2.jpg (Downloaded 59 times) Last edited on 16 Sep 2016 01:28 am by Robert Comerford
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Tony M
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Hi Bob, I haven't made up my mind if I will do any ballasting if I do I am thinking of heavy grade sand paper, the blokes in England use roofing felt, has a rough s stone affect, I don't think we can get it over here.
I am painting all my modules a darkish glay colour now was thinking of a course glay colour sand but if for some reason you to move the track be hard to lift with out damaging the track.
Tony
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Robert Comerford
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Because the track is harder to remove,clean and re-lay once ballasted is why I developed the method of using paint and bringing the ground cover up to the ballast line. Feel free to use the idea yourself Tony, I did not patent the idea ! :>
Cheers
Bob
p.s. I use Australian Export 'machinery grey' as the base paint these days. Detail it with chalks or dry brush later if desired.Last edited on 16 Sep 2016 08:22 am by Robert Comerford
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