Model Railway Forum

Latest addition to the collection.
IMG_1711 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Nice one Barry, is it a limited edition.

No Brian - it's the one with "steam", and not "Limited". Luckily I had a large number of Reward Points so they reduced the price considerably. I have not yet tried the steam - I need to get some de-ionised water - they only had 5-litre cans locally, which would probably last a life-time, so looking for a 1-litre bottle. I see Halfords have 1-litre bottle for £1.59 - so will get some.

Look forward to seeing the result.

Stunner

Chaos in my "railway room" at the moment. All track has now been relaid, ballasted and connected to the bus wire - so loco's can run from one end of the layout to the other. However, I am having a re-think about storage. Having a number of B&Q kitchen base units and wall units sitting under my boards, I am in the process of repositioning them to try and give more room (can you ever have enough?) for storage. I hope to have it all finished today, so that I can hopefully get back to a degree of normality - watch this space

IMG_1723 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

I have started re-instating the 3rd rail. A fiddly job, but once you get the hang of it, it is fairly straightforward. It helps to file a short point on the end of the rail - it makes threading the "chairs" on a little easier. I still have about six feet to do, but hopefully will not take long. The 3rd rail is "Z" gauge track (Peco Code 60).
IMG_1726 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Makes a huge difference when you are running 3rd rail trains.

All of the 3rd rail has now been re-instated. Some painting required, but that should only take a few minutes. Once done, a quick track-clean and then the tunnel/hill can go back onto the layout. I had to remove one of the backscenes from its board - it got torn during board removal - considering changing all backscenes as they have faded over the ten years they have been on place.

IMG_1729 by Barry Clayton, on Flickr

Very nice job thrre sir, looks better than my attempt a few years ago.