You know what it is like, you have parked that Train in the Siding and not been to careful about how you parked it. You then go along and run another Train past the one in the Siding. CRUNCH! You have hit the parked Train and done a bit of damage to boot. The first Picture shows the scenario all too well, there is even a hint of The Damage Caused, look carefully and you can see that the Black Diesel has lost one of it`s Handrails. There it is on the Track.
What to do, well the prototype has the answer with Fouling Point Indicators. There was an Article about building just such things in Depesche No. 131 Page 30. These things come in all shapes and sizes from just a simple piece of Wood in the Ground to quite ornate things with a rounded top and painting that would be almost impossible to do in even our Scale. So a chance to gather ones collective individuality and make them out of whatever.
I am pretty sure that Paul RHB has them on his layout, he will have included them because he had seen them on the real HSB. What I like about these things is that they are a small but interesting Scenic Embellishment, but do serve a real purpose for us.
My choice in these things is to use Rail. It can get rid of all those silly bits of Rail that we are so reluctant to throw away, and also use up offcuts of other metal.
So down to business, I have attacked Harzegrode on my line first. This uses LGB and Train Line Track so I used offcuts of LGB Rail. The length was defined to be just below Track Level, this way you are not going to keep bashing them when using the LGB Track Rubber. I cut 6 lengths of Rail and 6 squares form offcuts that came from my Rollwagen Project. These were soldered together and Rattle Canned Undercoat Grey as shown in the next 3 pics.
Whan that had dried they were than Rattle Canned all White and the Webb + Head of the Rail Picked out in Signal Red as shown in the next picture.
Finally they were put in place where the accident happened just to show the effect, I will be making ones for here with Peco Rail next. You can see on the second picture the minimum clearance that has been allowed in this example. In reality I think that we should allow somewhat more clearance. Say another two or three sleepers than I have shown here.
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Finally I show what I have been using up to now, yes Map Pins in a Small Hole in the Sleeper. These are better than nothing and have kept the line safe ever since I have been running Trains on the new line. In fact I used tham on my Line in Hemel too.
I will also fit something similar in the Fiddle Yard.
Sorry messed up a bit with the pics, the last small one shows the Map Pin.
JonD
What to do, well the prototype has the answer with Fouling Point Indicators. There was an Article about building just such things in Depesche No. 131 Page 30. These things come in all shapes and sizes from just a simple piece of Wood in the Ground to quite ornate things with a rounded top and painting that would be almost impossible to do in even our Scale. So a chance to gather ones collective individuality and make them out of whatever.
I am pretty sure that Paul RHB has them on his layout, he will have included them because he had seen them on the real HSB. What I like about these things is that they are a small but interesting Scenic Embellishment, but do serve a real purpose for us.
My choice in these things is to use Rail. It can get rid of all those silly bits of Rail that we are so reluctant to throw away, and also use up offcuts of other metal.
So down to business, I have attacked Harzegrode on my line first. This uses LGB and Train Line Track so I used offcuts of LGB Rail. The length was defined to be just below Track Level, this way you are not going to keep bashing them when using the LGB Track Rubber. I cut 6 lengths of Rail and 6 squares form offcuts that came from my Rollwagen Project. These were soldered together and Rattle Canned Undercoat Grey as shown in the next 3 pics.
Whan that had dried they were than Rattle Canned all White and the Webb + Head of the Rail Picked out in Signal Red as shown in the next picture.
Finally they were put in place where the accident happened just to show the effect, I will be making ones for here with Peco Rail next. You can see on the second picture the minimum clearance that has been allowed in this example. In reality I think that we should allow somewhat more clearance. Say another two or three sleepers than I have shown here.
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Finally I show what I have been using up to now, yes Map Pins in a Small Hole in the Sleeper. These are better than nothing and have kept the line safe ever since I have been running Trains on the new line. In fact I used tham on my Line in Hemel too.
I will also fit something similar in the Fiddle Yard.
Sorry messed up a bit with the pics, the last small one shows the Map Pin.
JonD
