Scotland Area ScOONs meeting 21 February

[Ian McAulay]

Calling all ScOONers

I think our next Zoom meeting is on Monday 21 February (but I can't find confirmation of this elsewhere on the Forum) and I think John Galbraith has agreed to chair it. Please somebody tell me if I've got it wrong!  :-\

Anyway, I've gone ahead and set up a meeting for 8pm UK time on Monday. (As usual, those not on GMT, adjust accordingly.) The details are below.

Hope to see you there

Ian


Ian McAulay is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 009 Society ScOONs online meeting
Time: Feb 21, 2022 20:00 London

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 856 2947 7791
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[Paul Alliet]

I wrote the same thing down, so we're either both right or both wrong!

[John Galbraith]

13 members attended our Monday meeting.

We started with finalising the rota for the Glasgow show which Graeme will send out prior to the weekend. Graeme has also decided to travel down on the Thursday to ensure there are Society leaflets available for the opening on Friday. He will also be taking down his Pizza layout which generated a great deal of interest and the recent Aberdeen Exhibition. Hugh R offered to take the banners back to Aberdeen on the Sunday.

Ian presented how he is going to carry out his 3D print of Amisfield Tower, which will now involve printing some parts separately. Ian has also been given advice on printing by Tom.

Paul has been working on ground cover for his layout and has attended some swap meetings where he has acquired some Bachmann chassis and is now looking for some bodies to fit them.

Gary showed his latest  diesel locomotives for a fictional Indian Narrow Gauge roadside tramway situated west of Bengal. There are four 3D printed locomotives with added detail such as brass smoke box darts and handrails.

Sara has been carrying out practice sessions on the Scalefour Cadhay Sidings layout which she will be helping operate at the Glasgow Exhibition. Sara informed us of some sound decoders and how to use LED's Unfortunately I did not note the company  for the decoders so hopefully Sara will add that. Sara also gave us an update on the Corris Railway traverser and informed us of the world clock meeting planner at timeanddate.com

Tom is planning to utilise an N gauge 3 way point, removing some of the sleepers, on his proposed layout.

Malcolm is busy packing up the P.D. Hancock collection ready for storage at another member's house and the layout is currently stored at the clubrooms. He will also have further articles printed in the March and April issues of the Society News.

Hugh N showed us how he upgraded his Maglights by using LED's and new metal reflectors. Hugh is also looking for feet for his turtle (model) and has drawn up a pattern for teeth and is planning to illuminate it.

Hugh R presented pictures and drawings of a Rack Railway.

Some amusing musical jokes rounded off another very enjoyable evening.

Apologies if I have omitted or misquoted anything so please feel free to add.

The next meeting is scheduled for SATURDAY 5th March at 15.00 and will be hosted by Tom.

If you would like to join us at anytime please contact Graeme Dunbar at scoons.009ng@gmail.com

[garrywhiting]

Garry's "diesel " loco's for the Chandrapore State Railway are in fact all steam loco's !

Garry

[Alan Pollock]

Hi Guys


And time to leave the joke books alone  ;D lol

Thanks
Alan

[John Galbraith]

Oops, sincere apologies Gary, thanks for correcting.

[Hugh Ransom]

The 'rack' railway was the metre gauge temporary Mont Cenis fell railway, using a central rail and horizontal driving wheels to pinch the rail - i.e. an 'enhanced' adhesion railway.  Snaefell Mountain Railway uses the same system but for braking only.  The Mont Cenis railway only last around three years - There was a question on the call about what happened to the equipment.  I'm sure some of the rolling stock was reused on conventional narrow gauge railways in France, and other equipment was used on another railway in Brazil.

[John Galbraith]

Hugh, many thanks for filling in the details of the rack railway