A daily updated blog typed by someone with painty hands, oil under his fingernails and the smell of solder in his nostrils who likes making all sort of models and miniatures. And fixing things.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Nice weather for trains
A few days ago, the weather was lovely and we brought the garden railway back to life. After some re-ballasting, well quite a lot actually, the power was connected up and the trains ran.
A recently purchase of a Bachmann tramcar in Hersheys chocolates livery performed a few circuits but finally found a bit of dirty track (we had cleaned it) so little Otto was sent around the circuit to rescue it. The result is really pretty little train. I wonder if I can get an unpowered tramcar to make a coach?
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garden railway,
model railway
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I believe people have spliced together two of the tramcar bodies to approximate to the Plynlimon & Hafon carriage.
I've sometimes thought about a tramway based garden line as a solution to the small space issue. The line at Bekonscot http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimbofin/4477345546/in/set-72157623736443208 is a simple end to end abd despite a lack of overhead manages a certain "atmosphere"
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