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We have finally made some headway with the new track on the new front boards. The boards were designed many years ago and by chance the joint between two 6ft x 2ft boards lies directly under com...
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The boards are now fixed together never to be separated and the surface sanded. New cork has been laid and sanded so all is well for the new track to be fitted.
I now need to plan the electrics...
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Well it was a frantic time getting ready for the YMRG Open Day in July. Keith managed to complete the new track-work for points to and from
Yeovil Junction just in time but Olivia and I had a bu...
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During open day the baseboard for the goods area dipped about 5mm in the middle as it must have had some excessive weight on it sometime in the last year!
We are planning to remove it and add st...
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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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Just had a call from Stewart (he and Paul first started
Yeovil Town way back) and he wondered if the club night was still Wednesday night? He had called by a few weeks ago at 19:30 and there wer...
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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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We are on the last pice of fiddle yard track wiring and the end boards have been upturned to wire them up. We have had slow but steady progress recently as my hallway needed major domestic work ...
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It's started...
We have purchased the first bits of hardware for the the fiddle yard.
Yeovil Town will eventually become a very useful club layout where we can run complete trains to and from a...
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With work progressing well on structures for
Yeovil town (our OO faithful fine-scale reproduction of
Yeovil Town Station) efforts have been turned to the last scenic board which encompasses the last f...
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As a software engineer I should have know better. Once
Yeovil Town had been fitted with DCC Accessory Decoders and CDUs we could not only operate each point from a common ZTC 511 (Sort of signal...
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Yeovil Town has seen some impressive demonstration running due to an extra memory chip being added to the ZTC 511. We now have 46 preset routes which work amazingly well. A loco can be tak...
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