Glasgow North

And they are all complete!

 

Progress, of a slow nature. My mental health gets in the way and there are good days and bad days. The worst of the days sees me compiling a list to sell the whole lot........

The incline from the cement terminal heads up towards the middle storage yard, via underneath the main station board. It's a nominal 1% incline and needs to e right before the station board goes on top.

Risers are 9mm ply glued to the baseboard frame ribs with Evo-Stik wood glue (the green bottle). The track bed is then 5mm ply. On the curves, this is glued to the tops of the risers, but along the wall, the thickness of the frame and the supporting beam is too too great for my clamps, so these are pinned in place to ensure proper contact whilst the glue goes off.

The route of teh trackbed is important as it has to avoid point servos, etc. hanging under the station board above.

 

After construction, a test.

The cement terminal will almost exclusively be served by Type 2s, and certainly no steam, so a 26 is used for the test. The test train is neatly double the length it will be in reality so lots of room for wiggle.

I tried the 08, and it pulled the full load but there was some wheelslip, which I don't like. So the 08 will have to be for lighter loads, if at all.

The second video shows good slow speed pulling on the steepest part of the incline

Overall I'm pleased

 

With the incline tested and satis., attention has turned to the cement Terminal. This will be the first part of the layout to have track installed.

The Anyrail plan was printed out full size and then pinned to the baseboard in its proper position. S&Cs placed in position and a handful of wagons laid down to give an impression. Obviously these will be cement Presflow/Cemflow wagons when operational.

The reality will differ from the plan in that the sidings will be fanned out a bit more. The mainline runs in behind the terminal on an embankment and two of the tracks can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the first image.

 

Glasgow North is unfortunately dead. The layout, to operate the way I wanted, relied on a Nelevator, indeed it was designed around a Nelevator. However, I have now canceled my Nelevator order, and so with it Glasgow North.

Perth Caledonian will hopefully take its place, with a conventional storage/fiddle yard on the wall where Glasgow North was to be. The layout has been laid out in Anyrail and is close to having its design frozen. The cement terminal will remain but, since I've decided to lay the scenic section for Perth Caledonian in Finetrax code 40, kit built track, I may relay it to the same standard.

More to follow in a separate thread. Sometime.

Best

Scott.

 

Hi Keith,

I don't want to say too much about my Nelevator experience, for a number of reasons. But with it out of the way, I can now begin building the new layout in earnest.

Best

Scott