1900: The Search for Nessie Continues.
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:29 pm
https://youtu.be/DYBuxeDRM5A
Been a while since I've posted, been doing some traveling, went to Alaska and rode a fair number of pleasant miles on Amtrak. Tried to find this site and kept getting a "bad link" sort of thing, and, well, here it is. Nice to be back.
I read that avid Loch Ness enthusiast recently congregated upon the Loch and stirred up a great deal of mud and scared the daylights out of a few, slender guppies. That being in mind, a sighting of Big Foot occurred in Colorado just about then. My tribute to these hardy souls!
I relaid Henley and tripled the size of the layout. Whilst Hornby set track is a fine product, I found that my limited bench work skills and large variations in ambient temperature, that this sturdy Bachmann EZ track was a better substitute and nearly foolproof. Speaking of ambient temperature, a month ago I was sitting in my shorts dripping perspiration, and at this moment my fingers are going numb from the cold. The EZ stuff has worked out quite pleasantly for me (more time running trains and less time troubleshooting), but the considerable, and unexpected drawback was that my lovely old Triang and Hornby, with pizza cutter flanges, would bind up in the numerous diamond crossings.
It took a bit of work, but by sawing out the frogs and guard rails in all eight turnouts, the vintage stuff will now pass through. Sometimes I get a kick out of running the old stuff, and then other times I try to wind up with the new proto-real things that run like jeweled watches.
Been a while since I've posted, been doing some traveling, went to Alaska and rode a fair number of pleasant miles on Amtrak. Tried to find this site and kept getting a "bad link" sort of thing, and, well, here it is. Nice to be back.
I read that avid Loch Ness enthusiast recently congregated upon the Loch and stirred up a great deal of mud and scared the daylights out of a few, slender guppies. That being in mind, a sighting of Big Foot occurred in Colorado just about then. My tribute to these hardy souls!
I relaid Henley and tripled the size of the layout. Whilst Hornby set track is a fine product, I found that my limited bench work skills and large variations in ambient temperature, that this sturdy Bachmann EZ track was a better substitute and nearly foolproof. Speaking of ambient temperature, a month ago I was sitting in my shorts dripping perspiration, and at this moment my fingers are going numb from the cold. The EZ stuff has worked out quite pleasantly for me (more time running trains and less time troubleshooting), but the considerable, and unexpected drawback was that my lovely old Triang and Hornby, with pizza cutter flanges, would bind up in the numerous diamond crossings.
It took a bit of work, but by sawing out the frogs and guard rails in all eight turnouts, the vintage stuff will now pass through. Sometimes I get a kick out of running the old stuff, and then other times I try to wind up with the new proto-real things that run like jeweled watches.