Yesterday I had to take the day off work to look after my ill son, so tok the opportunity to do more work in the garage. The infrastructure is pretty much done, but the boards the track will be on still needs to be put it. The short stretch of standard gauge has been pinned into place though.
In the evening I built a coach, my first peice of rolling stock for 009. It was from a Parkside Dundas kit, and went together pretty well, though somewhat fiddly getting the seats in, and putting the bolt on the bogies. I did not try to put on the handrails, and the vacuum pipes will go on after painting.
The wheels are not as free-running as I would have hoped; I might put a bit of graphite from a 2B pencil into the axle holes to see if that helps, but it looks good apart from that. I had not appreciated just how small narrow gauge stock is, I might have to revise my plan accordingly. The run-round loop would be enormous. I have a second coach which I will put together tonight probably, then paint them together. Still trying to decide on a livery.
I am still waiting for my fist loco kit to arrive, ordered from Modelfair Monday last week.
Thursday 28 February 2013
Saturday 23 February 2013
Tidying the Garage...
With the layout in the garage, it is too cold to do much. I have tidied up the garage, to get it ready though. Also bought a piece of track. During the week I bought a Graham Farish annioer tank on ebay, and I wanted to test that it ran okay - it does. I am awaiting delivery of a Peco "James" kit and two Parkside Dundas coaches.
I also printed out some turn-out templates from the Peco site to see how the track will look, amd have kind of finalised the plan:
I also printed out some turn-out templates from the Peco site to see how the track will look, amd have kind of finalised the plan:
Introduction
This blog chronicles my experiences in the world of 009 railway modelling.
As a kid, in the late seventies and early eighties I had a 00 scale railway that eventually filled my bedroom. When I went to college, everything was packed away in a cupboard and the room redecorated. Then a few years ago I thought about resurrecting it, made a couple of abortive attempts at a layout before we decided we had to move house and it all got packed away again, and the room redecorated. Then a third layout in the garage of the new house was started.
Although I have bought a fair bit of new track, all the 00 rolling stock is 30 or more years old. Some runs fine okay, but it is showing its age. As I find I have a bit more disposable income now, I want to upgrade the rolling stock, and suddenly now seems the right time to make the break to 009.
It is something that I had thought about as a teenager, but had too much invested in 00 at the time, and was not happy about kit-building. Now I am finally taking the plunge.
Welcome to the Glan-y-môr and Templehill Light Railway!
Glan-y-môr is Welsh for "by the sea" (and should be pronounced "glan uh mawr" I believe), and Templehill takes its name for a Thief mod I created a few years ago. The "G&T" seems to have a nice ring to it!
The plan is to have an urban area with a station at the front, and a spur to a dockside to the left. The "mainline" will curve around behind the town (to a radius of about 14"; hopefully that is going to work), into a large rural area down the right side, the loop back and to the station. There will also be a standard gauge section running from the other side of the platform into a tunnel; basically a single line plus siding to transfer shed. The station and dock areas will be on existing baseboards.
Anyway, I have ordered a Peco "James" 0-6-0 locomotive, to go on a Graham Farish chassis I got from ebay, as well as two Festiniog style coaches from Parkside Dundas.
As a kid, in the late seventies and early eighties I had a 00 scale railway that eventually filled my bedroom. When I went to college, everything was packed away in a cupboard and the room redecorated. Then a few years ago I thought about resurrecting it, made a couple of abortive attempts at a layout before we decided we had to move house and it all got packed away again, and the room redecorated. Then a third layout in the garage of the new house was started.
Although I have bought a fair bit of new track, all the 00 rolling stock is 30 or more years old. Some runs fine okay, but it is showing its age. As I find I have a bit more disposable income now, I want to upgrade the rolling stock, and suddenly now seems the right time to make the break to 009.
It is something that I had thought about as a teenager, but had too much invested in 00 at the time, and was not happy about kit-building. Now I am finally taking the plunge.
Welcome to the Glan-y-môr and Templehill Light Railway!
Glan-y-môr is Welsh for "by the sea" (and should be pronounced "glan uh mawr" I believe), and Templehill takes its name for a Thief mod I created a few years ago. The "G&T" seems to have a nice ring to it!
The plan is to have an urban area with a station at the front, and a spur to a dockside to the left. The "mainline" will curve around behind the town (to a radius of about 14"; hopefully that is going to work), into a large rural area down the right side, the loop back and to the station. There will also be a standard gauge section running from the other side of the platform into a tunnel; basically a single line plus siding to transfer shed. The station and dock areas will be on existing baseboards.
Rolling Stock
There is a chicken-and-egg problem with getting started. I cannot lay track until I know what gradients and curves are going to work with the rolling stock, but how can I test the rolling stock without track?Anyway, I have ordered a Peco "James" 0-6-0 locomotive, to go on a Graham Farish chassis I got from ebay, as well as two Festiniog style coaches from Parkside Dundas.
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