Drovers Brook track and power

Where we're at: Drovers Brook in the intermediate stage of being on the short trestles while the basic track and wiring went in. This meant I was back to having a layout in the middle of the room again, something that is not in the slightest bit convenient. In some ways there is nothing to see here, and any description could just refer to c2017 when the AoTC was under construction, as the methods and thinking are all but identical excepting the 75/Bullhead combo.

I managed to get about 85% on the plain track done with the BH the remaining bits at the far left (van siding and H/S) were done with 75 with the sleepers rejigged to match the spacing, i.e. exactly what I did with Dury's Gap. Usual simple three feeds with the points doing the isolating - the one engine in steam operation requires little else. The DPDT switches at the front (as per the AoTC) will be scenic-ed around to make them less obvious. This is very much a home beast, although it it nominally requested for the WRG show in March displayed very much in 'home operation' setting, and not on the usual high trestles with the lighting tubes.

 

Trefach in Railway Modeller

For obvious reasons the 009 layout build has only had glances here and now is revealed in a series of articles in RM beginning this month. The first on the reasoning behind the design and the baseboard. Most of this is not new for regulars here, but the expert carpentry will probably blow the minds of the general RM buying public.

Anyway, for part one, rush out and get the mag; but be quick as it seems to be popular and has already gone from the local WHS hereabouts. Just shows the excitement that one of my baseboard builds can trigger.

Moving forward, the layout is sitting stacked behind the Editor's desk in the RM office now, and as I understand is not destined to see the light of day until the SEC show in Glasgow in March although the whole thing was timed for the NEC next month, and we all know what happened to that.