Browsing Archive: April, 2013

A bit of progress and a day out

Posted by Rupert Connor on Sunday, April 28, 2013, In : Construction 
We managed to lay another length of track during the last week. Originally we were going to build in the pair of points leading to the proposed station branch somewhere along this section. Instead we decided to lay plain track for now, in order to get the basic oval of track laid and give us a long (up to infinite!) length of run as soon as possible. We will be working out exactly where the points are going to be so that we can incorperate rail joins at the right places to allow us to simply ...
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Two Road Engine Shed

Posted by Rupert Connor on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, In : Construction 
After the snow came the wind. Dust storms formed where there are newly ploughed fields, creating what seemed like a thick brown fog. At last there were a few nice days at the end of last week.

Karen had got fed up with tripping over a pair of points that had been lying around in the workshop pending a little tweaking to make them more reliable, and lifting some of our rolling stock on and off the track each time we used it was less than ideal. We therefore decided to get the points out of the ...
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Helen's Facelift

Posted by Rupert Connor on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, In : Locomotives 
Read about and see how Karen re-designed and (with Ruari's help) rebuilt the bodywork of our diesel engine No.5 'Helen' in the newly added cosmetic changes section on the locomotives page.

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Still waiting for Spring

Posted by Karen Connor on Sunday, April 7, 2013, In : Construction 
6th of April and there's still snow on the ground. The 'to do' list is growing. Anyone want to donate a snowplough?


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