Cleaning track - BEFORE laying.
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What you have done looks great!
Cleaning track before it goes down is a good idea.
Mind you in my case it was down for 3 years before trains ran again on the third incantation of the MGR.
Needless to say it took a while to clean before the first run, three sheets of 600 grit emery paper.
Cleaning track before it goes down is a good idea.
Mind you in my case it was down for 3 years before trains ran again on the third incantation of the MGR.
Needless to say it took a while to clean before the first run, three sheets of 600 grit emery paper.
A very neat and tidy job your doing there. just goes to prove there arnt any set rules in G scale
well done some very nice ideas well executed
Tony
well done some very nice ideas well executed
Tony
Tony said:A very neat and tidy job your doing there. just goes to prove there arnt any set rules in G scale
well done some very nice ideas well executed
Tony
Thanks Tony (and Mike, and everyone else who has commented); I wanted the ground-level perimeter track to give me a nice long continuous run, so I can sit and watch the trains go by - for more interesting operation, there will eventually be two other parts to the layout - a double circuit (probably R2 and R3) round the large slightly-raised bed that you can see in a couple of the photos (the area bordered by log-roll), which will connect to the outer loop via a point branching off the long run by the new wall - you can see the area of the block pavers that has been left for this spur - and also a small yard area to the side of the conservatory, joining via a point that branches off just before the curve into the passing loop. I'll try to take a couple of pics from upstairs in the house today, to show the whole main loop layout so far. The garden isn't huge (not by the standards of some of the folks on here, anyway!) but it's big enough to make for some interesting running, I hope.
Jon.
what a fine BEAUTIFUL layouts.lovely and neat one mate! loves that brick wall where the tracks go along it.awesome. so i ask u one thing to make sure if u use white pvc cable for the track? so why try waterproof black cable? in case
I've run cable in the gravel to supply power to three locations around the loop, as a belt-and-braces backup to the track joins - I'm running digital, so don't need complex wiring. I used some heavy-gauge hi-fi speaker wire from Maplins; I'm hoping it will last well enough, since it's neither exposed to the elements nor actually buried in the earth - I laid it in the trench bottom on top of a little gravel, then filled up the rest on top of it. Armoured cable or other very heavy stuff seemed a bit of overkill. At the conservatory, the three cable sets are piped through a conduit under the block paving, then up and through the conservatory wall to connect to the central station unit which will live inside the conservatory. Outside, no wiring will be visible at all except where a couple of inches poke through the gravel to connect to the track feeds.
Jon.
Jon.
A few more photos as promised.... taken from first floor window at back of house, couldn't get the whole garden in one pic (it's a short but wide plot). Only a couple of days after the building work was finished, and already the grass is starting to sprout and recover in places - except the puppies keep trying to reduce it to a Somme-like state again every time they go outside!. The area with the big blue tarp over it is the raised bed I mentioned above, which will have track laid on it eventually. The yard will go down the left side of the conservatory, out of sight in the pics.
Weird.... pics didn't load this time - will try again....
Jon.
Weird.... pics didn't load this time - will try again....
Jon.
Very nice and a few ideas to pinch . Only one comment the conservatory roof could do with a clean 
Steve said:Very nice and a few ideas to pinch . Only one comment the conservatory roof could do with a clean
'Ere, it only got done a couple of years ago.... have to get the missus up there with the pressure washer again.
Re the railway, you'd better wait until I actually know it works before you pinch ideas!
Jon.