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After a long period of getting our heads down we have not only completed and tested the fiddle yard but also the existing boards and track of the main layout.
I am currently working on a hand built p...
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The answer must be yes because last night it was freezing at the club house and I had to run the DCC track and accessories to test the new bus bar extensions I fitted so we can now have 7 hand control...
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There is nothing like an Open day deadline to concentrate efforts on a layout!
The problem with the point motors being out of sync has been fixed with some programming. The new temporary track ...
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Ok, I put my hands up. When we tested the currupt locomotives on the rolling road we used the main ZTC 511 controller (on the programming track). They ran ok in both directions and then it...
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After fitting the Traintronics TT300 slow motion DCC point motors to the layout we carried out some tests. The motors moved well for most of the time but whenever the track had a short they all ...
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Yes, after buying a heavily weathered tank loco and several other secondhand ones we are about to embark on a dirty campaign - Weathering them to look like those quite dirty tanks in all the photos.
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We have fixed all bugs in the track work on the front end and tested all routes. There were some strange physical issues caused by a defective micro-switch and the age of the layout track work and al...
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With two of the team in not the best of health at present there is a lot to do for the remaining two of us, in preparation for our Open Day.
There are always the tasks you forgot like completing the ...
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After a long holiday period and some secondment to the "The Summit" project We have finally started to make the second board scenic. Again we are using Polystyrene for the cutting sides as t...
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Having managed to get the second board scenic section blocked out with polystyrene and then coat it with plaster bandage last club night (Wednesday) we slipped in over the weekend to paint it br...
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We are finding it very slow travelling to the clubhouse to model small areas of detail on each board so we are moving most of them back to my garage where I can pop in every so often which is what wor...
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After spending two sessions trying to get my Lenz LH100 to work as per the English manual (version 3.6) I finally discovered it was still set to German! This must be why the previous owner put it on E...
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I have the left most board at home and have added the hill and small mounds together with grass and weeds. We have yet to add telegraph poles, fencing, coping stones for bridge and complete the roadw...
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Whilst board 2 is away from the layout gaining a scenic look! we have been gradually covering the approaches and exits to/from the the scenic part of the layout. This is where the dark day...
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After exhaustive testing we conclude that we can't run a ZTC USB Interface together with the Lenz USB interface on the same PC without problems! They both run ok individually but we now have had...
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