Background: It has been around 10 years since I last worked on a layout and 15 years since I got back into Model Railways. My Interest is the Victorian Railways in the Blue & Gold era and I model in N scale. Over christmas, the Youtube algorithm showed me a number of Inglenook videos. With my previous layouts dismantled, when I moved out here, it sparked an idea to give one of these a try, as I don't know when I will have time to build another larger layout. After viewing a number of layouts on here, I decided to try out the baseboard construction that Gary shows in his Tomlin's Creek thread. This is my base, 1200mm x 300mm or (4ft x 1ft). I had to go up to Melbourne (eastern suburbs) last week, so took the opportunity to visit a hobby shop and pickup a few piece of flex and a couple of turnouts. This is the trackplan I came up with to fit it. It is a 5-3-3 Inglenook using standard V.R. 40 foot wagons. I have a mix of both bogie wagons and 4 wheel rollingstock representing my preferred 60's-70's period. There are a number of pieces of rollingstock I need to pull out of storage and finish scratch building or modifying for this build. I will update this thread when I make some progress. cheers Tim
Nice start on your inglenook. I have built quite a few small layouts from the above mentioned 'Tomlins Creek' to 'Linden Ford' and many other variations. Looking forward to your future updates. Cheers, Gary.
Good to see another Aussie Inglenook being made. Not being an N scale modeller myself, I wonder about how you uncouple, my experience in HO and using the Kadee system is that works best for hands-off uncoupling when both wagons are square to each other. I found that if one had the other end on a curve, then automatic uncoupling was a bit problematic. The curves do make for nice visual interest, they just didn't work for me. Cheers Tony
Tony, the plan is for auto uncoupling using neodymium magnets placed approx where the red circles are below. The orange lines approximate all of the possible wagon positions on the two sidings, however i plan on only using the 4 numbered loading/unloading positions. Given the track isn't attached yet, just lying on top to check it would fit, there should be a straight interface to re-couple at each spot. If I was to play Inglenook games, then I may have trouble with auto re-coupling, but that is not my plan at the moment. cheers Tim
Uncoupling there doesn't leave any clearance, the wagon will foul the other line! Unless the couplings have a delayed function, so you can move them without re-coupling?
All good if you use Kadee couplers, as these are delayed. In fact, for an inglenook, you really only need one uncoupling point at the toe of the very first point.
