So, the track was laid last year, the board constructed some months before that, but there was more to be done before we could actually use the portable fiddle yard in order to make the portable section of the layout ready for exhibiting. There were: These tasks are now complete and the whole layout isContinue reading “Completing the Fiddle Yard”
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Preparation Continues!
I have offered to show Innsdorf at the Stamford Model Railway Show this May 9th and 10th, organised by the Market Deeping Model Railway Club, and my offer has been accepted, so although the layout is fully operational at home, I now have a number of relatively minor tasks to complete to make it exhibitable.Continue reading “Preparation Continues!”
Those Platform Lights
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”
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”
Innsdorf Modellbahn 