My Garden Railway still to built

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Post by McRuss » Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:24 pm

Since my last entry I continued with the work on the HGLW wagons and loco.

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In the last picture you could see my firstly built flat wagon. For these I still need the couplers.
Beside it you could see my newest project. It will be a van for mail and valuable goods. The base are the wagon bodies of two Faller E/Playtrain open wagons. For the chassis I will use one of the Faller chassis.

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I hope that I could fill up the area around the pond with soil in the next few weeks, and than to continue with construction of the trackbed.

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Post by McRuss » Tue Apr 22, 2014 6:48 pm

Today I started with the foundation for my garden railway.
Some of you will recognize, that it looks different to the plan
from last year.
These is due to the decission from my wife and me to built or buy
a house within the next two years.
Today I constructed a oval, in the near future I will add to termini. So when in mood the trains can go roundy round, or from point to point

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For the foundation I was inspired by Zachs foundation of his
DVLR.
And here the reworked layout scheme.

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Post by kandnwlr » Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:18 pm

Hi Markus,

Good to see some rolling stock coming along. Good to see them painted now, too.

Gruss aus dem Elsass
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Post by laalratty » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:27 pm

That looks a nice little run to get to started, and with room to expand. Trackbed looks good too.
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Post by McRuss » Mon May 05, 2014 8:12 pm

Today I used the sunny day.
A week ago I laid the missing track of the oval and
then my little HGLW loco did its first run.
So I laid the foundation for the addition on the right side..
Then I did some greenery in the oval of track. And because it
was still sunny I decided to run my Ragleth for the first time
on proper track.
I made the preparation. To minimize the steam up time I used boiled water.
Then I lighted the burner and after a few minutes the
steam pressure was sufficent for the run.
After the first run I decided to refill the engine, but when I
tried to relight the loco the gas jet was blocked. I will
sort these out when I got some muse.
My conclusions:
1. Live Steam is fun
2. I need a Summerland Chuffer. sp that the loco will sound like
a big loco
3. I need a Goodall Valve
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Kessel-Nachspeis ... 3cd61504ab
4. exchange the gas jet
5. hopefully I could lay the track on the extension in the next days.

I hope to take some pictures in the next few days.

Markus

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Post by McRuss » Tue May 06, 2014 6:15 pm

As promised, I made some pictures today.

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the right side of the oval

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the left side of the oval

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a short movie will follow later.

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Post by McRuss » Tue May 06, 2014 8:06 pm

And now the film I made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTL0j4DGKUU

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Post by McRuss » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:02 pm

It's been quiet about my garden railway for some time.
The earthwork is finished, and most of the track is laid.
For the background of my garden railway, I decided to resurect my abandond Isle of Skye Railway theme, which I used for my modular N scale layout. I have now discovered that when a railway system have been built on the Isle of Skye it would be a narrow gauge railway. My Isle of Skye Railway runs from Armadale via the small hamlets Kilbeg and Kilmore to Loch nan Uamh. In my fictious history
there is a rare mineral mined for the high quality steel production.

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Loch nan Uamh Station (some tracks are still missing)

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Armadale station in the background

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On the oval would be the two halt for Kilbeg and Kilmore

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Overview of the garden railway

And now a video of my garden railway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0tetTgxw74

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Post by pskipper » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:27 pm

Vanadium mines? There is vanadium mining in Dumfriesshire so that's not too far away?

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Post by Sylvian Tennant » Mon Jun 23, 2014 4:30 pm

Good work, I shall be keeping a close eye on this thread :)

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Post by kandnwlr » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:31 am

Great to see things taking shape. More pics of trains please :D

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Post by 'Pierre Berry » Thu Jun 26, 2014 1:59 pm

kandnwlr:102000 wrote:Great to see things taking shape. More pics of trains please  :D
I totally agree with that. More pics please.

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Post by McRuss » Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:21 pm

Today I steamed up my Ragleth and give it a run on my
new Isle of Skye Railway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtaZXM ... e=youtu.be

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Post by kandnwlr » Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:04 pm

Hi Markus, Looks as though you´ve put in a lot of works over the last quarter of a year and the lines looking good. Thanks for the film. Viel Spass und bis bald, hoffen wir! :D

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Post by McRuss » Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:58 pm

Hello,

can someone tell me how I could ad
a youtube movie so that you could see it direct in
the thread, and not as a url?
Thank you.

Markus

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Post by Chris Cairns » Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:15 pm

Et Voila!

<object width="560" height="315"><param name="movie" value="//www.youtube.com/v/GLtaZXMP35k?hl=en_US& ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/GLtaZXMP35k?hl=en_US&version=3&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

It all depends on whether you can get the old embed code out of YouTube. For this posting I went to your video, clicked Share, then clicked Embed and the Use old embed code option was there. Copied the old embed code & pasted it in this posting (Note: you will not see the video in Preview). In the past I've found you will not get the old embed code option if you are Logged In to YouTube.

If you do not get the old embed code there is a more involved method discussed in this Topic on Page 2 - http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/ftop ... -embed.php

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Post by McRuss » Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:24 pm

Hello Chris,

thank you, but how is it done?

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Post by McRuss » Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:28 pm

So let me try.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLtaZXM ... b9UQwZm6qQ[/video]

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Post by McRuss » Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:57 am

I hope it worked and you could see the embedded video?
Because on my computer it says that I need a plug in to
see the content.

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Post by kandnwlr » Tue Jul 22, 2014 8:45 am

Now that I authorized the Microsoft update to the video SW - yes, I can see it.

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