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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:48 pm

philipy wrote: Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:01 pm That is so impressive Tom, in every way. Thank you.

I've been meaning to ask, how do you fix the magnets to the track/sleepers?
Thanks Phil, it does make me feel watching the video back that despite the size of the garden and the lack of a continuous run my railway does 'work' even if it's not 100% what I would like it to be.

The magnets are simply stuck down with Blu tack, yes really! They have remained in place all through the seasons and allows you to move the magnets about if you want to uncouple in different places.

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by philipy » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:16 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Sun Sep 16, 2018 7:48 pm
The magnets are simply stuck down with Blu tack, yes really! They have remained in place all through the seasons and allows you to move the magnets about if you want to uncouple in different places.
Brilliantly simple, like all really good ideas. I must give that a go when I get home. Never would have even thought to try that, by myself.
I haven't done much more about couplings since the discussions a few weeks back, partly because of my stream project and partly because I couldn't think how to fix the magnets without resorting either to very permanent Gorilla glue or some sort of obtrusive screw-down strap. I've been using masking tape wrapped round the sleepers for indoor testing, but that's hardly practical in the garden.
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Andrew » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:04 am

Lovely video, thank you.

I watched it with the sound down and it reminded me of watching the Porthmadog webcam, with trains coming and going and quietly going about their business. The level of automation you've achieved is really impressive...

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:53 am

Andrew wrote: Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:04 am Lovely video, thank you.

I watched it with the sound down and it reminded me of watching the Porthmadog webcam, with trains coming and going and quietly going about their business. The level of automation you've achieved is really impressive...

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That's what gave me the idea Andrew!

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by jim@NAL » Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:49 pm

Very sad news hope you can rebuild it one day always liked your line espesaly the rusty bits .

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Post by ge_rik » Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:02 am

Great slow running and fine control, Tom and nicely framed video.

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Post by tom_tom_go » Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:30 am

ge_rik wrote: Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:02 am Tom and nicely framed video.

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Not quite up to your standard though, it took me hours to get it how I wanted it so it must take you even longer to film and produce your videos?

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by ge_rik » Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:39 am

Hi Tom
Not too long. I tend to plonk the camera down during a running session so sometimes the shots are not as good as they ought to be. I probably reject about 1/3 (sometimes 1/2) the shots I take because they're rubbish (or a bit too repetitive). I sometimes have to re-run a train past the camera because there seems to be an unwritten law of garden railway videography - The moment the camera switches on, what can go wrong will go wrong.

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PS - In the time lapse video of the wagon build, for example, I had to reshoot the section on making the couplings because I hadn't realised the camera's battery had run out.
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Post by tom_tom_go » Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:22 am

As my shelf railway is narrow I don't have anywhere to place the camera other than hold it or play about with a tripod which I am rarely in the mood to do.

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Just Julie » Thu Sep 20, 2018 5:48 am

Love the video Tom, Thank you :thumbright:

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Post by FWLR » Thu Sep 20, 2018 8:57 am

What can I say Tom….Anne has given me permission to reply to you on the subject of your line closure…….

Please don’t give up with your involvement with the Forum, you have such a lot of knowledge about lots of things and your ideas do work. Ok maybe some don’t come up to your excellent standards, but we all have those in one way or another.

I hope you do lay another line Tom, it’s been great seeing your videos. I am just about to go away with Anne today and when we get back I will to some extent, be carrying on doing something with my line.

All the Best Tom.

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Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:25 pm

Sneaked in a quick evening coal fired run but it was getting dark before I thought about taking photos so this is all I managed!

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by IrishPeter » Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:55 am

Rather atmospheric, I must say.

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by pandsrowe » Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:36 am

Crikey, with that level of brilliance there's no mistaking the go signal!
Or is that just an illusion created by the camera?
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Mitch stack » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:08 am

Is it true that your Railway Shutting down tom? Great shot too,
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Lonsdaler » Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:43 am

You may have left taking a photograph late Tom, but the result is wonderfully atmospheric.
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Post by ge_rik » Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:07 pm

Lonsdaler wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:43 am You may have left taking a photograph late Tom, but the result is wonderfully atmospheric.
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Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:23 pm

pandsrowe wrote: Mon Oct 08, 2018 8:36 am Crikey, with that level of brilliance there's no mistaking the go signal!
Or is that just an illusion created by the camera?
The exhaust smoke enhanced the colour of the working light on the signal plus it was quite dark and in that corner of my garden the light from the house does not illuminate under the tree.
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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:12 pm

If you read back into the thread you will have see that my experiments with SBR didn't go well and with my new cats disturbing the shingle ballast daily I got to the point of deciding to bin the line for these reasons and my general lack of interest.

However, the weather was lovely this weekend in Kent so I decided to try and reduce the damage the cats do by lowering the level of the ballast in the 'launchpad areas' the cats use for jumping up and off the railway:

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I appreciate it may not look like I have done much but I spent hours going along the entire railway removing ballast, siving it to separate the larger pea shingle from the fish gravel and then packing the remaining ballast into place. This has resulted in a reduced level of ballast so now the fence panel boxing in so far is preventing most of the ballast from being kicked off the railway. Yes, I do have to go and adjust the ballast once the cats have been on the railway but so far it's not too bad and I have never had issues with birds moving it about (and the cats go to the loo in the flower beds so no special presents in the ballast for me since they arrived).

I will see how it goes but I did enjoy tidying the railway up and thinking about things I could do although the run is short and does get boring these days for me...

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Re: RWLR - Robin Wood Light Railway

Post by Peter Butler » Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:54 pm

Welcome back Tom.... I'm sure your interest will grow, perhaps slowly, but clearly it is still there!
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