An Elevated Section Over The Dock

I have just finished laying track along an elevated section, and it looks pretty good, I think.

This will eventually be a dock, with more warehouses all around it (which is why the sky does not meet the ground). The above photo shows a corner of the dock, and the track heads left over a bridge, just visible below.

The warehouse is from Scalescenes, and was salvaged from earlier attempts in OO.

First 009 Society Meeting

Last night I attended my first meeting of the local branch of the 009 Society, and met, among others, the Chivers family of Chivers Finelines, Five79 and Slimrails fame, and saw some of what they are planning for the future.

Matt Chivers, whose house we met in, has a veritable layout in his garage, built by Dave Scot in the earlier nineties called Chelthwaite and Beccadale, and recently purchased from some guy in Aberystwyth with a view to renovation. He had a video of it in operation at exhibitions in 1993 and 1995.

An interesting evening.

A Redisign...

I have had a rethink about the layout plan, prompted by worries about reaching the track at the back. Instead of curving it around the back to the left of the station, I am going to brng it down, and across.

This will mean there is a "duck under", which I originally wanted to avoid as it will get tricky as I get older and it will just be awkward to work around. I will see how it goes, but replacing it with a lifting section at a later date will be an option.

Progress so far: Removed the unwanted track, and have started to build up the baseboards. I have ordered a couple more points and four more point motors, and track-laying will have to wait until they arrive.

Allan Downes

I started a thread at RMweb about my engine shed, and got a complimentary comment by Allan Downes. Back in the late seventies and early eighties Allan Downes wrote occasional articles for Railway Modeller, and the models he built were the best I had seen, so that comment means a lot to me. Thanks, Allan!