The CVLR gets it's new home (WIP railway & stock)

Sir haydn · Post by **Sir haydn** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:01 pm

nice one shane.

looking good!

The engine shed is still looking a little daughty

Steven.T · Post by **Steven.T** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:16 pm

I like the night time photos! Adds a bit of atmosphere to it all

mhlr · Post by **mhlr** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:43 pm

Good to see Matilda working hard to make a living! Super pics as ever mate!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:34 pm

Finally made another video, been a while...

Just a typical day on the line..

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Keith S · Post by **Keith S** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:50 pm

That locomotive at the beginning sounds great.

Sir haydn · Post by **Sir haydn** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:11 pm

Very nice shane.

Good to see the greenery is taking over

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:41 pm

Looking great mate! (quite a high SPAD count tho'

) and "Fish Train" looks cool (pun intended

)
Can't wait to watch it at home on the proper 'puter instead of my piddling little laptop!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:26 pm

Greg, SPAD's R us on the video. Although to be fair there are no signalboxes & we were working on the one train working with staff principle.. Maybe..
Fish vans havent been finished yet, hope to sort you out for them when you get back, it's been too long already.

Keith, awesome Summerlands chuffer on the loco, does sound rather pleasing..

Matt, Greenery had totally taken over at one point when I was rushed off my feet & didnt get a chance to keep on top of it. Tamed a bit now.

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:05 pm

A few updates....

Started adding bits to the basic area's..

First off weeded & then built a retaining fence towards the top end of the line...

The planks are just slotted into the post, I don't plan on painting them as I would rather them just weather & rot a bit..

I have a plan for the 1 to 1 scale fence behind but that will have to wait till I have time.

Noticed this trespasser as I was building the retaining fence...

At this point I would like to say, "Damn you Mr Bond" (strokes furry cat)..

It's a start, only a small bit that will hopefully be blended in better to become a canal basin.

Looks better in the dark..

Plan is to build mooring type planking to cover the plastic sheet.

Lastly some more of my standard old school photo edits...

Apologies that its the Countess again, I think I take more pics of this loco as it's manual..!

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:21 pm

I see reflection ponds (sounds like a zen garden addition) are catching on, the liners soon green up I have found. What are you doing to keep it from stagnating?

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:10 pm

I was ignoring the whole idea until you built that river Mr Bond!!
As for stagnating avoidance, nothing planned yet. It was actually a last minute idea I had whilst weeding today. Found a load of plastic sheet in my shed, not perfect as it's clear with a blue tint but hey, it's free. May build a lower pond under the railway bridge & connect with a waterfall & pump it back, we will see.

Gremlin · Post by **Gremlin** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:29 pm

Great video and pics, love the sound of the rolling stock which I guess is the result of cemented/ballasted track?

Narrow Minded · Post by **Narrow Minded** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:02 pm

AAaaaaaargh!
Another water feature - I...... Must......... Resist.......!

That set of photo's are awesome! Your best yet I reckon!

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:25 pm

Greg, does this help??

Finished off the one side of reflection pond. Otherside will consist of plants drooping into water when I get round to it.

I think it adds to the area quite well..

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:53 pm

More boxes ticked for route signage!!

My mate Ben came over again today, he has a wonderful collection of loco's. This time we went a tad Indian...
From the CVLR side the Fowler was rostered to run, keeping the overseas loco theme going. But it failed with a broken regulator servo. Later in the day Countess was running but lost a bolt on the motion. Have since found said bolt lineside.

How many crew!! This confused the heck out of Porthcadno's shed foreman.

Especially as there were two!

I awaited the sight of decapitated loco crews, but all survived within the loading gauge.

Of course I took some pics here..

The locals look bemused at this rather odd looking train...

But with the fabulous weather the line was busy taking passengers to the coast & the added stock was welcome.

Coast bound..

Of course it ran out of gas at the top of the line which led to this odd sight as the CVLR's No 10 'thunderbirds' it back to PorthCadno.

As the weather was fantastic & we were having fun we went silly & put a fire under No 1. It actually did rather well (which normally means something is about to fall off it). The full circuit of the line with one brief stop..

We had great fun running from about 10:30 till 3:30, took pics & video. Heres my favs from the rest of the day. Must say we both thought the Darj stuff fitted in quite well for a line based in Wales/Shropshire.

Steven.T · Post by **Steven.T** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:44 pm

I like the watery addition to the landscape, makes for some lovely photos!

Sir Clothem Cap · Post by **Sir Clothem Cap** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:00 pm

All this fantastic looking water. I must resist as the rabbits wouldn't like it! but it looks amazing

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:49 pm

Excellent, have you coated the bottom of the pond with slate?

Pendo Pilot · Post by **Pendo Pilot** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:13 pm

Mr. Bond of the DVLR:58239 wrote:...have you coated the bottom of the pond with slate?

Indeed I have, well everything else on the line is slate covered.

Washed it off & placed it at the bottom. Still clouds up the water if disturbed but soon clears now.

Pretoria · Post by **Pretoria** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:13 pm

ok Mr Pendo P, what's the possibility of increasing the gauge so I can bring "Pretoria" round ?

(the only problem with 5" guage is the general lack of scenery etc -- "The Joys of Life" is the nearest to GR I have been to so far, perhaps with Derby SMEE in second place -- but lines like yours beat them by far -- almost tempted to downsize -- But ....... Nooo!)

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