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Then someone in the club shows you that beautiful little N gauge loco he has just purchased and you think "Now if I just bit the bullet and changed gauge what a layout I could fit in the space then...."
Been there, done that.
Manxcat
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Manxcat
It took me 3 years to lay the track, rip it up, relay it, ballast and paint, rip it up, relay it, ballast and paint. Now 3 years later it recently occured how by minor re-arrange of funiture can extend outer loop to offset figure of 8 with fiddle yard whilst maintaing the current level of fidelity to the prototype. Also about to get some quotes on loft conversion.
I recon if you stop moving then you'll get decorated with ornaments.
Cheers, Simon
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simon
Greg Procter wrote in news:46FEB05A.253C8A76 @ihug.co.nz:
I try to work to the nearest 1/4 inch - Most of my layout is 00 :-)
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Chris Wilson
In message , john dolan writes
It is neither a double nor a single slip, but is just two points overlapped a bit. It looks a bit like a double slip with one of the straight roads missing.
In south Wales coal sidings you used to get a whole string of them on a diagonal line going across a group of parallel sidings.
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Jane Sullivan
Indeed we will, by mid December we'll have about 5 hours of daylight. However, come June we'll have 19 hours of daylight (the "Simmer Dim"); quite disconcerting to go to the bathroom at 3 am and find that it's broad daylight.
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Bruce
On 29/09/2007 22:29, john dolan said,
No, its actually very simple! It's just two turnouts overlapped "back to back". I imagine Colonel Stephens used one because it could be made up from standard P&C parts, and likewise those of us who build our own track could knock one out far quicker than a normal slip.
I would hazard a guess that it might even be possible to make one using two Peco turnouts, although I haven't done this.
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Paul Boyd
On 30/09/2007 08:48, Jane Sullivan said,
By the way, John D, that's why they're called "Barry slips" - Barry being in South Wales.
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Paul Boyd
On 29/09/2007 23:06, Manxcat said,
...and some of the newer Bachmann N-gauge stuff doesn't actually look at all bad!
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Paul Boyd
Dam! No I'm just going to have to have one of those........... and I'd just finalised the layout last night. Back to Templot!
Richard
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beamendsltd
beamendsltd said the following on 01/10/2007 10:57:
Just bear in mind it doesn't have the same functionality as a double slip :-)
Oh yeah, they're easy to do in Templot!!
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Paul Boyd
I've just incorporayed one in my latest small S scale layout and it really does help out in space saving in certain conditions.
I can just hear the 'Not another layout with a Barry slip" comments in a year or two's time :-)
Jim.
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Jim Guthrie
Yes, I noticed - but using one of theose actually makes good sense (not least as I've got make it) replacing a single slip I have had to add completely un-prototypically (duplicate routes on adacent sets of points). I even had two points superimosed last night for a solution, but ruled it out on as being unprototypical - et voila, it isn't!
As is everything in Templot when you've driven it enough, but by 'eck the learing curve can be a bit steep! I just hope "automatic" three way points don't get added to Templot before I actually get the track glued down.......
Richard
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beamendsltd
LOL! I've spent 3 years armchair modelling with XtrkCad, *and* changed scales having already started buying stock and kits for my initial choice, to try and avoid going through that. I sometimes wish I'd just chucked some track down on a few baseboards and suffered the pain that Chris describes.
My recent mantra has been "less is more". Minimal track density in a large space in N giving the impression of the railway flowing through the landscape (this started after a visit to Pendon). I saw the BRM article about Kings-X in N a few weels ago. Now I'm undecided again.
I'm beginning to think I need at least three layouts. One small shelf layout I can get built and running in a short time, one high density computer controlled where I can just watch trains whizzing hither and thither and the "less is more". Then there's the O or OO layout so I can fulfill my fantasy of highly detailed finescale etched brass models. Oh that's 4, Aaaaggghhhhh.
MBQ
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manatbandq
Hi John,
Here's an *outside* Barry slip, built by Simon Dunkley in S scale:
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An outside Barry slip has the *V-crossings* of each turnout within the lead length of the other -- like this:
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An inside Barry slip has the *switches* of each turnout within the lead length of the other.
More info:
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Prototype sightings of an *outside* Barry slip wanted!
regards,
Martin. -------------------------------
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