Eighton Bahn AKA testing testing RhB

[Nodrog1826]

....now lets not too hasty there....

Will need to do a temporary support for the suspended valley track, but it's feasible.

I can also report that there was no distant rumble of thunder in these parts, or to put it another way I have removed the bracing and no domino effect.

 

[Neil Robinson]

Impressive progress Gordon. It's great to see it finally coming together despite all the slings and arrows.

 

[Nodrog1826]

....of outrageous fortune, continued today.

This afternoon, as we had a run out after Swmbo had seen the Doc..

Slabs cut, cemented in, track lined up and initial fit, one loop only at this stage. Its electrically a circuit as well, if you count a cross rail short continuity test from one side to the other.



But, finally after a decade, well almost, we have.



There is a small incline from the "Lawnmower Bridge" , it looks worse than it is, but it can be packed. If the locos can cope, it will disappear in a "tunnel".





Overall, with the "Darlo" branch to the shed we have.

 

[dunnyrail]

Very nice, but I look at all that Green Space and think System!
JonD

 

[Nodrog1826]

I know, you would have thought I would have planned for an extension.(s)

 

[Nodrog1826]

Today, connected the final loop, bit of cutting required, so all the current phase track is now in.

Also a temporary support for the suspended track, until I get the rock face in.

So without much ceremony...

 

[Gizzy]

Well done Nod....

 

[JRinTawa]

Well done indeed

 

[steinman]

Open Day ?

 

[merlin]

Congratulations. Isn't it a great feeling when the first (of many) trains successfully negotiate the entire system? I wish you many happy hours of sitting and watching the trains pass by with a glass of something cold in hand!

 

[Nodrog1826]

Just to prove it was not all smoke and mirrors....

As for an open day, with certain neighbours around here, no one would get parked.

and...

It is a great feeling to get the first run under my belt, carn't wait to get an in the dark run, But over the next few days looks as if the weather will have other ideas, in that dept.

 

[Nodrog1826]

Normally here you report/post about your triumphs, but now for a failure of sorts.

Problem during the trial run, has resulted in the removal of these..

Don't get me wrong they work, and give a useful indication from a distance.

In my case I still wanted to be able to run through and switch a point with a train as it were. Only able to do that on one route, the other wouldn't even to the point of derailing a train, so out they came.

They are going to be recycled to another railway soon, so someone else will use them.

 

[Frank Gallagher]

Why?

 

[Nodrog1826]

Not sure as to the question there.

 

[Nodrog1826]

Sometimes to progress you must first backtrack, so it was today.

Cut sections of track needed drilled and tapped for fishplate fixings.









Now the easiest way to get the track out was to also lift the track from "Lawnmower Bridge"...



which was handy as I had not installed the check rails, so...



Its all now done...Think the hedge needs a trim though.

 

[Henri]

Get some rabbits. Or a goat...

Nice!!!! Missed the first running due to holidays, but another layout can be enjoyed!!! Many happy hours!!

 

[Rhinochugger]

I think that's just showing off now

 

[PhilP]

Gordon, how do you secure your check-rails please?

 

[Madman]

Quite an ambitious project. Looking forward to more progress reports.

 

[Nodrog1826]

Gordon, how do you secure your check-rails please?

Have tried various methods, glue, drilling the sleeper bases to match the screw holes on the bottom of Aristocraft track, or tapping LGB track to do the same.

Finally settled on...

Butting up the check rail to the moulded chairs on the sleepers, then drilling down through the foot of the rail and the sleeper at a slight angle, tap the rail to take a fishplate or track base screw,
trim off the flash on the underside of the sleeper and open out the hole slightly, realign everything up then insert screw from the underside.
The "Collins Cutting" bridge" has all the methods described.




The screws are staggered on the lengths of rail, in this case offcuts on the "Collins Cutting" bridge, as I thought they may wobble slightly, but apparently not so,
for the "Lawnmower Bridge" they are all just fastened on the inner face.

As for the bend in the rail, it just happens to be the length of the jaws of the mini vice I used.