Since June I have been hinting at this when I started thinking about moving my 2 Water Butts to enable this project to go ahead. When I have Operating days there are just too many occasions where 3 bods are trying to marshal Trains in my big Shed at Alexisbad, Harzegerode and Stiege. Stiege being a bit of an issue being effectively just a Fiddle Yard below Alexisbad often causes many problems with bods stooping, difficulties of view and just getting in the way. Thus I hatched a scheme to exit the Shed for another outdoor location. The light bulb moment hit me as when all trains pass my Lindenburg Station they are heading in the Eisenfelder Tamüle (ET) direction anyway so ET it would be.
The picture below shows my initial design work and thoughts about what may be possible. Note the different options pontificated about together with costs for what will be an LGB/Train Line track line. I have kept some Straights feom the great Track Sale last Year and now wish that I had kept a few R3 Curves as well.
The site of works can be fully appreciated here, but I had decided on the plan to move the Water Butts. I also needed to rais the Butts as the overflow system was not that efficient at moving the Water to a Pond. The flaggs, bricks and blocks for this job were another cheepskate option being scrounged from varying neighbours from their Tip Piles!
Then it was decided to Repaint the shed, I used the Mix it Up stuff by and from BnQ on old gits day that has a 6 year life. My local Gibbs and Dandy do a similar service with an 8 year life, but the added cost did not really stack up. I rather like the subtle Green that I managed to have mixed up.
Wood wise I have lucked out on this project and manage to salvage the Roof Timbers from next doors ground floor Kitchen that was recently demolished, what is not used will be chopped up for the Log Burner. The Decking was salvaged from a ladies car at the local tip, another money saving stroke of luck.
So a month or two back possibly in June I had drilled a small hole in the Shed to see where the line might exit thus. This was used to estimate where the track would exit and my Sideways Electric Saw used to start the hole. This firstly went through the Floor Boarding TnG Chipboard that I have used inside the Shed then from the outside through the TnG Cladding on the Shed. The initial hole can be seen here.
It will probably need to be enlarged a little as the Track here will be curved but I did not want to do that till I have test laid the Track to see the lie of the land as it were. I have not yet got all the Points that I require. Below you can see how the hole fits into the scheme of things together with all that roofing timber that will be used to make the supports and baseboard. This view also shows the Grey Push Fit Central Heating pipes that are the amended Butt overflow water route to the pond.
There are many ways of supporting a layout. On Slabs one can use Flat Metposts but my patented way is to embed a Nail in the Support that will fit into the slab and have some Filcris Plastic so that the wood is not where full water can rot it. I also greese the Nail to discourage rusting, here you can see the setup with the hole drilled in the Flag and the greesed up nail. I pencil round the support test fitted, then draw a cross on the support and flag to get a centre.
Inevitably much use is resorted to Clamps to hold things in place when working on my own. Final job after yesterdays excersions and before the rains forecast for today was to Stain Up the wood with preservative.
A long tiring but productive day. Note the cutout of the hole replaced temporarily to discourage egress of the forecast downpour which is happening just now as I type up this little start to my project.
The picture below shows my initial design work and thoughts about what may be possible. Note the different options pontificated about together with costs for what will be an LGB/Train Line track line. I have kept some Straights feom the great Track Sale last Year and now wish that I had kept a few R3 Curves as well.
The site of works can be fully appreciated here, but I had decided on the plan to move the Water Butts. I also needed to rais the Butts as the overflow system was not that efficient at moving the Water to a Pond. The flaggs, bricks and blocks for this job were another cheepskate option being scrounged from varying neighbours from their Tip Piles!
Then it was decided to Repaint the shed, I used the Mix it Up stuff by and from BnQ on old gits day that has a 6 year life. My local Gibbs and Dandy do a similar service with an 8 year life, but the added cost did not really stack up. I rather like the subtle Green that I managed to have mixed up.
Wood wise I have lucked out on this project and manage to salvage the Roof Timbers from next doors ground floor Kitchen that was recently demolished, what is not used will be chopped up for the Log Burner. The Decking was salvaged from a ladies car at the local tip, another money saving stroke of luck.
So a month or two back possibly in June I had drilled a small hole in the Shed to see where the line might exit thus. This was used to estimate where the track would exit and my Sideways Electric Saw used to start the hole. This firstly went through the Floor Boarding TnG Chipboard that I have used inside the Shed then from the outside through the TnG Cladding on the Shed. The initial hole can be seen here.
It will probably need to be enlarged a little as the Track here will be curved but I did not want to do that till I have test laid the Track to see the lie of the land as it were. I have not yet got all the Points that I require. Below you can see how the hole fits into the scheme of things together with all that roofing timber that will be used to make the supports and baseboard. This view also shows the Grey Push Fit Central Heating pipes that are the amended Butt overflow water route to the pond.
There are many ways of supporting a layout. On Slabs one can use Flat Metposts but my patented way is to embed a Nail in the Support that will fit into the slab and have some Filcris Plastic so that the wood is not where full water can rot it. I also greese the Nail to discourage rusting, here you can see the setup with the hole drilled in the Flag and the greesed up nail. I pencil round the support test fitted, then draw a cross on the support and flag to get a centre.
Inevitably much use is resorted to Clamps to hold things in place when working on my own. Final job after yesterdays excersions and before the rains forecast for today was to Stain Up the wood with preservative.
A long tiring but productive day. Note the cutout of the hole replaced temporarily to discourage egress of the forecast downpour which is happening just now as I type up this little start to my project.
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