As I mentioned earlier in the year, among the detail kits I bought with money I was given for Christmas last year were five kits for building the distinctive gantry-mounted station lights for two of my stations. I built one fairly soon to test out how easy or difficult it would be (difficult!) but itContinue reading “Those Platform Lights”
Author Archives: Mark Warrick
Almost Ready!
Painting the backscene, with a slight hitch! When I was about forty years old and first needed reading glasses, I imagined that deteriorating eyesight would become an increasing difficulty with building scale models, but that has not turned out to be the case. Thirty years on, with spectacles I can see well enough: sometimes workingContinue reading “Almost Ready!”
Laying Track in the Portable Fiddle Yard
Although I built the legs for the portable section of the layout (Innsdorf station and village) and the board for the fiddle yard, laying of the track had to wait for an opportune moment because I could not do it in the model railway room: it needed a longer space. This meant either outside (inContinue reading “Laying Track in the Portable Fiddle Yard”
Details, and more details
I was horrified to see that it has been over a year since I last posted anything here. It is not that nothing has been happening but that nothing much has been completed, so although I have been taking photographs and video it never really seemed worth posting them, but I thought that perhaps itContinue reading “Details, and more details”
Human Interest
As you may have seen in previous posts, I do like to include interesting “vignettes” of life in my model railway. These days all sorts of sets of model figures are available that allow a huge range of situations to be modelled quite simply (although quite expensively!), but also there are standard ranges of “passengers”Continue reading “Human Interest”
Preparing Signals; Building a Fiddle Yard
Work continues on controlling the intermediate station (I really must think of a name for it), and I have made considerable progress in preparing the portable section of the layout for exhibition. This involves making removable but stable legs for what it now quite a heavy layout, along with a “fiddle yard” which provides somewhereContinue reading “Preparing Signals; Building a Fiddle Yard”
Apology for the Silence
It’s not that I have not been doing anything on Innsdorf, although I must admit I have not been doing as much as during the lockdowns (who would have done?). What I have not done, though, is to finish anything and so I have not really had much to show you. Those who have followedContinue reading “Apology for the Silence”
Controlling the Intermediate Station
The middle station needs no power feed of its own, being powered by the controllers at the two termini (well, just Innsdorf at the moment, but the mountain terminus, Bad Moritz, will have one in due course), but it does need its points and signals to be controlled locally, and I have built a smallContinue reading “Controlling the Intermediate Station”
Laying Track Through the Mountains
The track base is now complete as far as the intermediate station on the mountain pass line, and slightly beyond, and I have been laying the track and have successfully run trains to and from the station. I had to use flexible track because the fixed-radius curves I have in hand are not small-enough radiusContinue reading “Laying Track Through the Mountains”
Onward and Upward
Was it really May last year that I posted the beginning of the spiral climb? That was just as Britain was beginning a degree of freedom from the restrictions imposed to control the spread of Covid-19 and from then activity tended to be out and about rather than in the railway workshop! There was progress,Continue reading “Onward and Upward”
Innsdorf Modellbahn 