This is a new venture for me, so please bare with me.
While at the Rainford 009 AGM meeting this year, I happened across some generic 0-16.5 rolling stock and a diesel shunter by Chivers Finelines.
They were relatively inexpensive so I purchased the loco and two wagons to play with, as you do. :D
I had decided to build a shunting puzzle type layout on a piece of 1200 x 400 floorboard chipboard I had lying about, some time ago to try and interest my 11 year old grandson. I used the old loco's and rolling stock, but lack of enthusiasm resulted in this little effort standing idle amongst my garage clutter. I had a lot of EM gauge track and quite a few EM gauge hand built points from an earlier venture into modelling the Callendar and Oban railway line in my loft, so I used the old EM gauge track, with mechanical operation of the hand-built points, using the time honoured method of a double pole changeover switch, inset into the baseboard, connecting frog polarity switching switch, to the point tie bar, with an Omega loop formed in the interconnecting piano wire, to construct this little module.
The module was located and dusted off to use with the new 0-18 gauge stock, unfortunately, the track-work was laid out to suit the 00/EM gauge rolling stock, so the lines are not really far enough apart to accommodate the new 7mm sized stock comfortably. Hey Ho, the joys of spur of the moment purchases.
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The diesel loco and the two unfinished wagons are shown here. The loco is awaiting its chassis, but unfortunately, the recommended Black Beetle motor bogie, is no longer immediately available except in Australia, so I am trying to source an alternative, I'm not having a great deal of success with this new venture am I?
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I also purchased off Ebay this 7mm model of a lineside hut in cast resin to get a feel for the scale buildings, which only further reinforced the inadvisability of not thinking ahead.
I have also recently bought this miniature lathe type piece of kit, which will join the roundtuit purchases I have accumulated. I have mounted the tool on a piece of varnished board, wired the speed controller and bench-light together, and it's ready to go.
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That's about it for this update of my recent activities.
Regards,
Brian T.