Thank Kim, ye sits getting there. To hot to do more work at the moment. Construction will restart in April.
The third phase of the Garden construction has got underway. The weather is so much better to work outside rather than in the heat of summer....
I have only had the points outside for 5 months and have so far had no issues. I asked the same question and two other members, Ralph and Bob have...
So the first two phases has been completed and I had my first running session yesterday. Ian did a quick video of some of the running [MEDIA]
Chris I have a van ready to go with battery and wifi. You can couple up the 9F and away we will go. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Cheers Brian
First trains run today: Heljan 50 class with 6 Dapol Mk1 coaches [MEDIA] Heljan/Hattons A3 with 6 Dapol Mk1 coaches. [MEDIA] Cheers Brian
Been wet and miserable most of the week. But Thursday and Friday only had the odd passing shower so was able to get lots done. [ATTACH] Started...
Was a very busy couple of days: Firstly put in the missing link from the sloped section in front of the gate to the rear retaining wall, which I...
The Heljan/Hattons A3 and A4 have been problem children with build quality issues and reliability issues and lack of pulling power. My A3 was...
We can run trains!!!! Well in a limited way, enough to do testing of the trains around the loop and up a 1 in 40 slope. Finished putting the...
A couple of cooler days so back out in the garden. First job was to cut all the extra bits of the ends of the curved Flex-C so it could fit in...
So I had six months of medical issues that stopped me doing any manual labour so progress has been slow. I was fully recovered between Christmas...
Paul, I hope the new digs has an appropriate train room. cheers Brian
Paul, is there another thread on the around the wall layout? cheers Brian
Well doesn't time fly when you aren't paying attention, 18 months since my last update. There has been some progress on the garden and garage....
George, I contacted Heljan several times, their response was that there was noise on my bus. They made a few suggestions, none of which made any...
Ok you can set the Turnout Interval in Setup Digital Systems, I set mine to 2000, which is 2 seconds. Each Turnout also has Switch Time under its...
Ok more testing done, and I have a new theory. So with TT set to 16 (61-70) the number of random movements increased markedly. In a one hour...
George, Thank you for your contribution, Since coming home I hadn't got around to doing any testing. Interestingly with my TT set to 60 and with...
So I tried something different today. I got my mate, who is pet sitting for us, to boot up the trains and test the TT. I had to walk him though...