My layout in the making - Page 34

dynamite25 · 11-11-2007

I now have my two Peco engine sheds for my TMD area that I ordered from Rails of Sheffield and I didn't think that there was that many parts to build it but will be fun to build it when I do.

dynamite25 · 22-11-2007

Decided to buy myself two early Christmas Presents which are two Heljan locos one is a Class 57 and the other is a Class 47 both in First Great Western livery and I paid £89 for both from Rails of Sheffield and are brand new but were Second hand and un-used.

Here is a pic of them but only of the boxes but I will take pics of the locos when I run them in either tonite or at the weekend.

dynamite25 · 22-11-2007

Right after spending an hour in the loft running both locos in I have got some photos of them.

Heljan Class 57 605 'Totnes Castle' First Great Western.

Heljan Class 47 815 'Abertawe Landore' First Great Western.

dynamite25 · 14-01-2008

Work has restarted on the layout with point motors being fitted in the hidden sidings just a few more to go but need to order a couple more point motors and fixing plates,also I ordered the track for the upper level now that I have a track plan that I am happy with for the upper level and I got the track today from hattons.

And this is the track I ordered.

1 * Peco Model Railway Products SL100/B Box of 25 * 1 yard (91.5cm) lengths of Wooden-sleeper nickel silver flexible track.
2 * Peco Model Railway Products LK56 Loco inspection pit for normal code 100 track
4 * Hornby Model Railways R601 Double Straight
3 * Hornby Model Railways R606 2nd Radius Curve
3 * Hornby Model Railways R608 3rd Radius Curve
4 * Hornby Model Railways R614 Left hand diamond crossing
2 * Hornby Model Railways R615 Right hand diamond crossing
11 * Hornby Model Railways R8072 Left Hand Standard Point
1 * Hornby Model Railways R8073 Right Hand Standard Point

And here are two photos of the Track and I forgot to put the track in the second pic with the other track in the first so I had to take another.

And here is my track plan I have done and I have added the two buildings and fueling point in the TMD,and platforms in the station which there is three also the red bit is a brick wall and the long brown bits are the 3x6 beams in the loft .

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dynamite25 · 30-01-2008

Over the weekend I Decided to buy the wire and Crimp Connectors for the layout for the DCC wiring so I ordered.

100M BLACK 1.5MM TRI-RATED CABLE x1
100M RED 1.5MM TRI-RATED CABLE x1
CRIMP BLUE TAP SPLICE x100
CRIMP BLADE SPLICE x100
6.3X0.8MM RED MALE BLADE PK100 x1

and I received them Yesterday.

So today I started on the hinged section first by screwing two Batterns to the underside of one of the Hinged sections.

Then I screwed four Electrical blocks to the Batterns and then connected four lengths of wire to them two red and two black,then I fitted 8 Blue Crimp Blade Splices to the wires and fitted 8 red male Blades to the wires from the track then connected them to the Blue Crimp Blade Splices and tested them with a multimeter.

There are four wires on the hinged sections so I can still run trains under DC till I get my DCC system,then both sets of wires will be connected to the main DCC Bus wires.

dynamite25 · 01-02-2008

Got the other Board done today and got one of six power connecting Leads fitted between Baseboards and I'll get the others done on Sunday,I also need to fix the wires to the underside of the frame work so they don't hang down to much.

dynamite25 · 07-02-2008

Didn't think I would have one this soon in my layout build but here it is a Bachmann Dynamis DCC set and a 2 Function Decoder for one of my Heljan locos.

And I am off into the loft in a bit to have a play with my DCC system.

dynamite25 · 08-02-2008

Update time.

Over the last week or two I have fitted 3 of the 6 upper boards for the upper level but they will need to be removed to clean all the saw dust up and to wire the hidden sidings up but I will do that once I have got the other 3 fitted then I can do the whole end in one go,but I have two photos of the 3 boards that I have fitted and shows how much space I have for the upper level.

dynamite25 · 18-02-2008

I have updated the track plan for the upper level after I noticed some mistakes on it last night and now shows part of the lower level tracks and the second incline as I didn't leave any room for them when I did the right hand curve for the upper level so I have corrected that,I have also added the rest of the baseboards that are removable from the layout that have the mainlines and incline on them.

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Hopefully if I can get the tracks wired up in the hidden sidings this week I hope to start laying track on the upper level in 2 weeks time.

linebacker55 · 05-03-2008

You certainly have got off to a good start... are you going DCC or the conventional wiring route? ... jules