Website update (x-post)

Nice website, Shaun. Thanks for keeping us updated. I look forward to seeing the progress (and pictures) of your railroad and website as they grow.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire

Cheers for that. Modelling restarts in earnest next week as the builder has now finished my kitchen and the house has now returned to the version of normality that it had before.

I'm off to an exhibition in the next hour and looking forward to some new purchases.

2 things about the website. First, traffic in the forum has really picked up with a few posters posting anything up to 100 posts a day between them. If you feel like dropping by for a chat about model railways then you're more than welcome.

Secondly, if anyone has any non-UK retailers/manufacturers they'd like to recommend then feel free to do so. Especially seeing as American and German N gauge manufacturers seem to have a far wider range of lineside kits than UK manufacturers do.

MRN

Oops. Meant to add that I'd then put a new links section on my website for any non-UK retailer/supplier links.

MRN

Hi all once again,

OK, after having promised to do this for a while, I've now finally put a gallery online. The first pics are only of my test track and of a couple of my locos running on it but it's a start! The gallery can be found at:-

MRN

Hi all,

Put yet another gallery online. This time it's 20 pictures showing the rolling stock I've got. The gallery can be found at:-

Hope you like them!

MRN

Another gallery has now been added to the website. I've taken 30 pics of my rolling stock with coaches and wagons in attendance. I've put the pics online at the following location:-

Once you've looked at them then how about dropping by the forum for a chat. All are welcome. Honest! ;)

MRN

Been updating the website again and you'll love this - honestly! I've put a gallery of all my misatkes and cock-ups on the site and it can be found at:-

Don't laugh too hard. Please. ;)

MRN

Shaun wrote: Been updating the website again and you'll love this - honestly! I've put a gallery of all my misatkes and cock-ups on the site and it can be found at:-

Don't laugh too hard. Please. ;)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I like this page. Brings back memories of my early model railroading days!

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire

I have no intention of laughing. Those of us who have built layouts have all made mistakes of some kind at one time or another in the past, and anyone who says (s)he hasn't is a bare-faced liar. The best thing about making mistakes is that you learn from them and make sure you don't make the same ones again.

Keep up the good work.

I'll second that Jane. One of main motivations for getting back into the hobby is to try (now I'm older and wiser, and hopefully with a little more patience) to build something *without* the hash-ups I used to consider 'good enough' in my teens!

"Jane Sullivan" wrote

You should see some of the layouts (or train sets) which customers have shown me pictures of. Compared with some of them the OP's dog-legged rail joints are perfection personified.

John.

Though learning from everyone elses mistakes (preferrably before you make them yourself) is a useful shortcut to the process.

Here's one I hope others can learn from without repeating:

When planning a split level layout, make sure that you have enough clearance between the levels for the stock, then a hand, then any equipment like, ooh, I dunno, point motors or something.

Nothing is quite so sickening as sending a train round the lower level only to hear it go 'crunch', as it connects with a solidly mounted point motor from the level above. Apart from not being able to get your hand in to get it out, obviously...

James Moody

They must be bad then!

MRN

Hi Jane,

You're too kind by far. ;)

I'm now moving on to the next stage in the project. I've now secured enough TSO's to make up a full passenger train in the way I want and am just about to buy a brass kit for a 489 GLV to complete the train. Never having made a brass kit before, it promises to be fun!

MRN