Re: Garden railways mojo
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 12:27 pm
Hello!
We quite often seem to talk about mood and motivation on here, it seems a common theme. One thing I've learned is not to force it when I'm not in the mood for it - for me at least, making or running trains seems to be a great way of passing the time and celebrating a good mood, but it's no way to lift a bad one...
Anyway, here's a practical suggestion... Apart from tinkering with locos, you seem to really enjoy operating. Your line's good for doing that at short notice, eg after work if the mood takes you (a definite plus which I don't have...) but not so good in that it's pretty short - ie you can't do the classic sitting back with a glass of wine/ mug of tea thing, which can be the best way to relax... So... How about adding a couple of points and curves to allow your balloon loop to become a small circuit accessed via a triangular junction? Yes, it'll be the world's shortest continuous run, but you could do some interesting scenic work with the triangle, and you'll be able to set a train running and let it go for a while. Better still you could indulge in two train running, running round the second train and servicing its loco while the first loops the loop. It's something I've thought about instead of my lower terminus to extend the run on my end-to-end line, but the additional lawn it would take up wouldn't go down well with the rest of the family...
Just a thought...
Hope the mojo returns soon,
Andrew.
We quite often seem to talk about mood and motivation on here, it seems a common theme. One thing I've learned is not to force it when I'm not in the mood for it - for me at least, making or running trains seems to be a great way of passing the time and celebrating a good mood, but it's no way to lift a bad one...
Anyway, here's a practical suggestion... Apart from tinkering with locos, you seem to really enjoy operating. Your line's good for doing that at short notice, eg after work if the mood takes you (a definite plus which I don't have...) but not so good in that it's pretty short - ie you can't do the classic sitting back with a glass of wine/ mug of tea thing, which can be the best way to relax... So... How about adding a couple of points and curves to allow your balloon loop to become a small circuit accessed via a triangular junction? Yes, it'll be the world's shortest continuous run, but you could do some interesting scenic work with the triangle, and you'll be able to set a train running and let it go for a while. Better still you could indulge in two train running, running round the second train and servicing its loco while the first loops the loop. It's something I've thought about instead of my lower terminus to extend the run on my end-to-end line, but the additional lawn it would take up wouldn't go down well with the rest of the family...
Just a thought...
Hope the mojo returns soon,
Andrew.