Small Balcony Garden Railway

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by -steves- » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:15 pm

Hi Egor

I love that railway, its great, very cute and goes to show you don't need a huge garden to enjoy your hobby. Loving the turntable, I assume its hand made just for your line?

My only one concern would be the lack of a buffer stop on that line where it looks like a loco could run off the end of the track, is there anything there to stop that?

You have done fantastic work and if it were mine I would be extremely proud :)
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:40 pm

-steves- wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:15 pm Hi Egor

I love that railway, its great, very cute and goes to show you don't need a huge garden to enjoy your hobby. Loving the turntable, I assume its hand made just for your line?

My only one concern would be the lack of a buffer stop on that line where it looks like a loco could run off the end of the track, is there anything there to stop that?

You have done fantastic work and if it were mine I would be extremely proud :)
Hi Steve,

Thank you for your kind words!
No, that turntable available commercially. Produced in Germany by Modell-Werkstatt Heyn. Site:
http://modell-werkstatt.de/turntables
At the end of the way (near the unloading ramp) two miniature stop block are laid, which perfectly prevent accidents. By the way, I use one stop block to accurately stop the locomotives on my small turntable. Everyone knows how difficult make accurately stop a live steam locomotive (even equipped with radio control) ...
Stop blocks I also purchased in Germany:
http://modell-werkstatt.de/stop-block-code-332-track
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:38 pm

I did not wait for the weekend and made today a small video with a locomotive 4 (Bowande Falk). I apologize for the extraneous noise, our house is located not far from the busy street and the main railway line.
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by bazzer42 » Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:26 pm

Lovely video Egor, No 4 does run nicely. Now we need shots of the nearby railway!. Can you see it from the apartment?

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:10 am

bazzer42 wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:26 pm Lovely video Egor, No 4 does run nicely. Now we need shots of the nearby railway!. Can you see it from the apartment?
Thanks!
I hope the admin will not be very unhappy if I make a little offtopic and post the photos I made this morning on the way to work. I apologize for making them by a mobile phone camera.
If I look left from my balcony, I'll see the railway ....
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Our local station
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Occasionally (about once a month) an excursion train with a steam locomotive arrives. There are the photos from last winter:
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by bazzer42 » Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:59 pm

Thanks Egor, that was a treat on a drab morning. Cracking steamer! Nice to see railways in any shape or form.

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:14 pm

Trains in the snow produce great shots of clag, thanks for sharing.

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by oldblindpugh » Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:45 am

Отлично. я люблю это!

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:20 am

oldblindpugh wrote: Wed Jun 28, 2017 11:45 am Отлично. я люблю это!
Many thanks!
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by jim@NAL » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:51 pm

that's an impressive locomotive thanks for sharing the pictures I bet you get a lot of snow

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by ge_rik » Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:16 am

An excellent little railway. You have really made good use of the space. I notice there is space for extending the line along one of the walls if you get planning permission from the other half of your household ..... ;)

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Sat Jul 01, 2017 11:21 am

ge_rik wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2017 10:16 am An excellent little railway. You have really made good use of the space. I notice there is space for extending the line along one of the walls if you get planning permission from the other half of your household ..... ;)

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Thank you Rik!
Yes, I sometimes think that it would be possible to extend the way after the unloading ramp. But probably here it is necessary to make a removable part, so as not to complicate the use of a folding table.
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by daan » Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:53 pm

Hi Egor,

You could add a photo background for some added realisme. You have white walls around your layout which undo the amount of detail and love you put into your layout a bit. You could make a backdrop on thin wooden panels, or print a photo on aluminium, like on county gate railway, and it will immediately give your railway a lot more realism. If you make those panels removable, you won't have problems with your wife about it.. :lol:
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Tue Jul 04, 2017 2:46 pm

daan wrote: Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:53 pm Hi Egor,

You could add a photo background for some added realisme. You have white walls around your layout which undo the amount of detail and love you put into your layout a bit. You could make a backdrop on thin wooden panels, or print a photo on aluminium, like on county gate railway, and it will immediately give your railway a lot more realism. If you make those panels removable, you won't have problems with your wife about it.. :lol:
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the advice! I hope that this idea will be realized someday.
I would like to add facades of some buildings, I think this will greatly improve the appearance of the railway.
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:29 pm

A new dramatic scene on my layout: the worker tries to remove the log that fell during loading. :)

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by ge_rik » Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:28 pm

Great looking scene - I like pictures that tell a story.

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:48 pm

I always wanted to have signals on my layout. But the chosen theme - early American logging, did not leave a large choice of signals. The only suitable signal is a red highball. I thought about it creation for a long time. The October 2017 issue Garden Railways magazine gave impetus to construction from available materials. Let this signal not quite scale, but I like it. Now there is a signal regulating the locomotive's departure from the turntable.
Signal closed:
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by tom_tom_go » Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:53 pm

I never knew a signal like existed!

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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Sun Oct 29, 2017 4:39 pm

tom_tom_go wrote: Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:53 pm I never knew a signal like existed!
This is a prototype of the signal (but double):
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Re: Small balcony garden railway

Post by E.V. » Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:24 pm

To make my little railway more "garden" I added a couple of potted plants to the base. For this, I was drill a couple of holes for the pots in the wooden base.
In the pots grow the Ficus benjamina with the Soleirolia and the Fuchsia with the Soleirolia too.

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