New Home Layout

[BrianE]

Having bought my Caboose Industries point levers I rather had to make something for them to go on. The pix are awful but you get the gist. I can't see MickT popping round to do better ones any time soon! It isn't wired up yet, that's next. Scenics later; the middle will stay open but I'll be having fun with the rest of it.

[Peter Boulter]

Looks like a good start for an interesting layout.
It's always nice to have a photographic record of a layout's construction.

Oh, and the pix look perfectly fine to me.

[Dave Cooper]

Will it have a theme /Country setting etc ?

Judging by the gradients, perhaps USA, Quarry (or, just plain fun !).

Regards,
Dave

[clayliner]

Nice work, Brian - good to see the creative juices flowing again.

Also good to see something that isn't all on the flat. I can't see round the back but is there no provision for continuous running?

David.

[BrianE]

Done some work on the top half over the past month or so.  Not all tidied up yet but getting there. Thanks to nice colour printer and rubbish eyesight it looks OK to me. Luckily it's never going out the front door so you won't get the chance to see the reality.

[BrianE]

One of the things that has always impressed me is the way quite a few exhibitors use flip-over cards or some similar method to ensure that their trains operate on their layout in a way that works. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to do that but I am clever enough to write a computer program to do something like it. It's only the first version at present but it does at least work. There are 24 possible 'actions' (A->B, B->C, C->A, their opposites, and three train types) with a few options such as which platform. The computer picks one at random, checks if it is possible, and presents it to me for actually doing. After I've done it I click on the 'Done' button and the picture changes to represents the new situation. Clicking on 'Next' brings the next instruction on the bottom line.