Hello Folks., I have been busy with cool train doing some surveying and we found that #1 the original plan for the extension would make me have to redo the end of my yard , and so we decided to put a Triangle in (at long last) and going around the water tank to a couple sidings for the sand quarry and then curving onto a set of points into the station so hopefully there will be some interesting train formations soon enough and speaking of rolling stock wise i am finally going to build the last IP engineering wagons that i need to finish soon! if i can get my OO scale things sold soon to fund the purchase of "robin".
here is a photo of the revised track plan which will hopefully work just as good as the main line section!
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Anyways onto other news..... i am intending on ordering 16 Binnie skips at some stage this year and 3 IP Freelance coaches to go with "Robin" and hopefully some more Wagons to go with the PDF models baldwin im intending to purchase as the main diesel loco, and hopefully have a few sets of vehicles to run on the tramway,
Me and my friend Ray Gathered on Saturday afternoon for a steam up on my tramway with his Lilla Silver Lady and his WIlson Locomotives 7/8ths scale "jack loco, all of which ran well despite Jack having a couple of issues running over one of the points, we ran the heaviest and longest trains in the history of the tramway so far but that will change soon, Here are some photos. the consist for the longest train 9 Vehicles . were Lilla - 2 Accucraft L&B wagons 4 Bachmann ore hoppers and 3 LGB coaches
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lilla simmers at the start of the cutting with the 9 vehicle train.
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silver lady hauling 2 IOM coaches a E van and a W&L cattle wagon, very irish here with the cattle wagon as the last vehicle on the train.
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Lilla Hauling 2 L&B wagons SIlver lady and 3 LGB coaches on a transfer trip up the gradient.
Hope you enjoy the photos.
Mitch .