I've been looking into buying a Rolling Road set, I've used them extensively in OO and 009 Scales and find them to be essential tools. I was looking at them at Llanfair but I'd already spent enough money by the time I found them!daan wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:30 am @Rob, to mimic a long stretch of track to proprly run in your engines you can also use a rolling road. That way you can also keep an eye on things and add a bit of extra oil on the rods if it needs some.
Since you also use LGB track on a brick wall, I also had some ditches and high spots, which I sorted by shaving away some height of the sleepers, wich is easy to do with LGB. It's an easy way to get your track level and thus your engines running smoothly.
thanks for the video's and photo's your railway looks great and the video gives a better overview of how it's all connected. Another tip: Youtube also has a stitching tool to combine several short clips to a bigger one.
cheers, Daan.
We've managed to fettle out most of the ditches over the years. The Station at Charlwood slopes towards the shed, but once you're out on the mainline the wall is pretty level. The back straight has a nice dip in the middle, which means that locos have a nice little climb, regardless of the direction they're travelling.
I'm new to youtube (I've been a still photographer for over ten years, but never really dabbled in video!) Thanks for looking