Monday 31 January 2022

A two point model railway



Lightweight baseboard
Progress has been remarkably slow. Not sure why. I used to knock this sort of thing out in a couple of hours. It doesn't need much explanation: the 3' x 1' boards are rescued from a previous abandoned project and are a lightweight baseboard experiment with all the cross pieces drilled with a spade bit (which is brutal) and now resemble the inside of an aircraft wing. The difference is notable especially compared to the hernia inducing White Rose boards used for the N gauge. The thinner material and the holes resulting in at least 30% less weight.

The two point track plan

The track plan, if you can can call it that, echoes the original Rhiw plan of a long crossover. The line top left runs to a single passenger platform and the line lower left is the headshunt/exchange for the kickback line  at the bottom right. This means that operationally the layout is really only the turn around as the destinations are off-scene. This means that the unseen line can be anything you want, though the general idea is that the traffic is chemical/fertiliser in vans and scrap inward. This recently threw up the possibility which didn't appear on Rhiw 1 in the shape of condemned 16 ton mineral wagons working one way.

2 comments:

  1. Are you going to have an extension on the left front as well as the fiddle yard on the right? I imagine so, as otherwise there will be a very short headshunt serving the industrial line. Or do you have a cunning plan...?

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  2. Maybe it's taken longer because you want to make sure that it's really dead right this time (I'm thinking about your previous comment on the poor running to/from the fiddle yard).

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