Garden Railway Forum

Thank you Philip, actually having trouble with my old camera. Still taking pictures, but having trouble downloading them to the computer. Seems you have to hold your mouth the right way or something!
Grant.

Yes Peter,
I was nearly going to put a talk bubble on the two guys at the back,"do you think they're going to do any work or just talk about it.
Grant.

Thanks Rik,
No the track is code 250 AMS track with very poor UV plastic. Much deterioration under Australian UV conditions, that's why there is shade cloth over Leawarra and things look a bit mottled!
Grant.

There has been a scheduled shut down at Leawarra requiring full occupation of the yard, in order to carry out a redesigning of track and platform requirements. The Civil Engineers have designed and built a new footbridge to allow for the track amendments. Track crews have removed track from the sout...

she works nicely on air and on blocks I might be completely off target here, but as you have mentioned that it runs OK on blocks( presuming wheels hanging free) it couldn't be that with weight on the wheels, bearing condition or loco attitude on the rails, is not causing a drag or bind somewhere? J...

Andrew wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:17 pm I must do it again soon,

Yes you should Andrew, nice pics.
Grant.

Very nice and neat machine work there.
Grant.

Keith S wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:52 pm Don't worry, I am probably not the only one who reads every word of every "live steam" post

I'll second that Keith!!
Grant.

That's a very neat start to a garden railway. Hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of it.
Grant.

Nice one Graeme, they look really good.
Agree about the brass monkey temps, two bars on the radiator in the workshop today.
Grant.

siclick33 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 01, 2022 4:03 am The main brands (JR/Futaba/Hitec) and many others have the positive wire in the middle.

Ah, it's coming back to me now. You are correct and that's why it doesn't matter because you are only mixing the control wire with the negative one.
Thanks for jogging my memory.
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I still run an old Sanwa transmitter in one of my boats. They were always the odd man out so far as receiver wiring is concerned. As my memory is a little hazy, I think if you plugged another brand servo into a Sanwa receiver it blew the servo, but if you plugged a Sanwa servo into another brand rec...

I was hoping you would be waving the weathering stick over "Calloway", looking forward to the finished results.
Grant.

I really like the overgrown track work, though I hope no one lives in that grounded van! More nice shots, and I second BertieB about that station building, just love the exposed framework inside.
Grant.

Plenty of scope for development there Mark . Looking forward to more.
Grant.
PS I have a picture of your wife marching straight through the house on returning from holidays to check on "the developments"

Really like that first shot. The weathering on that loco looks so typical.
Grant.

Like the sag in the propped open window. Hope you enjoy painting all that rusty and otherwise corrugated iron.
Grant.

MIDDAY AT GRAY"S MILL It has been a wet summer, the tractor being the preferred power for bringing logs to the mill. The traction engine has been idle all summer. The mill loco will head off to return empty log bogies to Nayook as a new coup has been granted there for pine logs. 1.JPG With litt...

Very well said Keith.
Grant.

Yes, it's funny the things you notice when you take a photo of something you've made yourself.
Grant.