Hi Ian. Your Inglenook looks terrific, and I really like the idea of the railbus operating a "regular" service. I am in the early planning stage of my design based on feedback from Gary about Inglenooks and inspired by Gary's evolving 0 scale layout, but I need some advice. My layout is supposed to be like the "back to back" inglenook as described by Gary (P1 Oct 15 2018) The LHS of the layout will be H0, with an incoming standard gauge terminating mainline with minimal switching and a regular diesel railcar service. This section will be DCC. The second part of the layout will be H0e (009) and will be the main operational part involving the inglenook functionality. This will be DC at the moment due to my sole Roco loco being DC. It may become DCC later?? My primary question about the Inglenook design is that the loco is always "behind" the rolling stock and not in front as of it had arrived down the mainline. The Inglenook must assume that the loco has been decoupled and moved away to allow for the shunting operation. I would like to include this section of track as well. Is this correct Steve
Hi Steve have a look at Gary’s Tomlins Creek it’s a inglenook that got an extra siding similar to what your description that a loco can be left in whilst the shutter dose the Shunt http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/tomlins-creek-a-nswgr-inglenook.2432/ One of Gary’s many brilliant plans for a nook
Hi Chris. Thanks very much. This is just what I needed. I saw this layout at Epping, but did not know about Inglenooks and the subtlety of their design. A question to Gary on P1 cleared up what an Inglenook is, but still learning about their operation. Whilst the Inglenook is being designed to be standalone, I want to leave the option to connect it to a larger layout, primarily on the HO mainline, or extend the H0e local spur. Once I am a bit further in the design I will post it for some critical feedback. Regards Steve
Im sure Gary and Chris will be of great assistance there. Gary has done more layout designs for me than I can remember. Ohhhhh ....... The old days ...... R & GLR springs to mind. We'll look forward to seeing what you come up with. Toto
Thanks Toto Will keep all at P1 informed. I do not know what R & GLR is. Dr Google did not help much Regards Steve
The R & GLR is the Rosebuddy & Gypsy Lane Railway. It was the very first layout that I started on the first forum that I was a member of before starting my own forum. The forum is " Your Model Railway Club " and I believe it still resides in the members personal layouts section ( page 4 or 5 ) with around a quarter of a million hits. I continued it on here under personal layouts until I decided to wind it down. It was maybe a bit of an ambitious project for my first layout but it was certainly popular. I would like to bring it back one day in a more manageable format in O Gauge as it still holds a very dear place in my heart. It was named after my two Golden Retrievers at the time ..... Gypsy and Buddy. There are a few on here that knew of it but sadly ........ it's bit the dust for now. Cheers Toto
Thanks Toto Yes it still exists on that forum. I had a quick look through a few of the (184) pages and noticed a few familiar identities from the P1 forum. I could not see any photos though. Loosing a loved pet is felt very deeply. We had a delightful border collie who developed an aggressive cancer and also needed to be put to sleep to ease his pain (and ours). Despite having a newer version border collie, we still miss him a lot. Good luck with reviving the R & GLR. It seems like it should happen, for many good reasons. Regards Steve
Hi Steve, I see you've already had great answers to your question. One way to use the extra siding on Gary's plan is to stable the shunter there and have and isolating section on the longest siding so the train can arrive, then the shunter couples to the end of the train and pulls the wagons back the way they came from just enough for the loco to head to the stabling siding while the shunter makes up the new train. The shunter can then wait on one of the shorter roads while the loco comes out and picks up the new train, then it can head back to the stabling siding ready to start again. This would add extra moves into the 'game' and make it more interesting as you could use different locos all the time. Ian
Thanks Ian. Yes, the response has been great and really useful. I am using the AnyRail design package to lay out a realistic and enjoyable plan based on this feedback and the Tillig H0/H0e track. The mix of dual gauge track, DCC and DC adds to this mix. What could go wrong?? Lots of fun though Steve
Hi Steve, Unfortunately many of the photographs on the other forum have been removed. ( not by myself ) I did not save the images myself as I did not see the need. Anyway, any revival would be on a much smaller scale and easier to document going forward. I'm sure it will happen, it's just a matter of when. On another note, its great to hear you are using Anyrail for your layout planning. I use that as well when in the track plan design mode. It's great fun and easy to use once you get the hang of it. Cheers for now Toto
Hi Everyone! Well, I've done some more work in the OO Inglenook (with more). Several months ago a added a Dapol semaphore signal to the rear track which is tripped every time the railbus passes over a reed switch fitted bewteen the rails. Today I added a small MP3 player called a DFPlayer hidden in a grounded van body and connected to a speaker and another reed switch. Every time the railbus passes the van the horn sounds (it probably isn't the correct horn sound but I like it). Ian