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My Engine Shed

Post by MoelygestLR » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:05 pm

Recently, there has been quite a bit of progress with my engine shed project so i thought i would share this with you.

It is quite a substantial and heavy structure being made mostly out of concrete with a stainless steel floor complete with recess for the track. This allows me to make it look as though the track is level with the floor without having to concrete my track in place.

Also I have been working on the roof trusses, of which the front ones are currently under the process of being clad. The whole roof will be removable to allow access to the detailed interior which is also shown in some of the pictures. I have placed my recently overhauled IP engineering Jack in places to give an idea of the size of the building.

the interior detail consists of a raised working platform along with a work bench, some lockers and the foreman's office complete with opening door.

Most of this has been scratch built and so far, I am very pleased with it.

there is still plenty to do before this can be called finished, but hopefully it wont be too long before it can be put into use.

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Post by MDLR » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:15 pm

Hey - that's looking GOOD! Are you going to light it? I wish I could build and locate buildings like that, but the vandals won't let me!
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Post by laalratty » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:44 pm

Looks fantastic Paul :) look forward to seeing it complete
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Re: My Engine Shed

Post by Endless, Nameless » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:45 pm

MoelygestLR wrote: Most of this has been scratch built and so far, I am very pleased with it.


And rightly so- it's blummin' excellent! Please keep us posted with your progress.
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Post by andysleigh » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:55 pm

cor, that looks billiant!


good work
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Post by MoelygestLR » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:06 pm

Thanks for all the compliments.
It has taken me a while to build (about 2 or 3 years) of which most of the time it has sat cluttering up my shed waiting for me to think of ideas to solve problems!

Brian, Yes one of my aims is to light it, with some industrial style lampshades, these should be powered by a battery box, fitted to the roof to allow it to be removable.
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Post by mhlr » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:31 pm

Fantastic! I love the little office! :P
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Post by MDLR » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:31 pm

MoelygestLR wrote:Brian, Yes one of my aims is to light it, with some industrial style lampshades, these should be powered by a battery box, fitted to the roof to allow it to be removable.
Seeing as it's taking such a long time (!) get yourself down to your local IKEA at Christmas to pick up some of their battery boxes and strings of 10 LEDs for £1-56.............

I'm sue I'll be able to let you know when the stuff's in!
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Post by SillyBilly » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:06 am

Does look great, I now understand why you kept on exclaiming about how big it is!
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Post by LMS-Jools » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:25 am

Bloomin Marvelous an excellent show piece for your railway. I trust you are keeping the roof removable so others can admire the interior detail. ;) 8)
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Post by pauly » Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:27 am

MDLR wrote:Hey - that's looking GOOD! Are you going to light it? I wish I could build and locate buildings like that, but the vandals won't let me!
you still have trouble woth vandals like?


the shes fantastic, wish I could do stuff like that!
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Post by MoelygestLR » Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:45 pm

MDLR wrote:Seeing as it's taking such a long time (!) get yourself down to your local IKEA at Christmas to pick up some of their battery boxes and strings of 10 LEDs for £1-56.............

I'm sue I'll be able to let you know when the stuff's in!
Great Idea! I think I might just have to do that! Please do let us know when it is in stock!
SillyBilly wrote:Does look great, I now understand why you kept on exclaiming about how big it is!
Yup, and incredibly heavy too, just think that most of that is made from concrete and steel!
LMS-Jools wrote:Bloomin Marvelous an excellent show piece for your railway. I trust you are keeping the roof removable so others can admire the interior detail.  ;)  8)
Thats exactly the idea! and also so that items inside the shed can be moved around to create cameos for photographs quite easily and that when no ones videoing or photographing and you just want to operater you can take the roof off and it makes the whole building a bit smaller and the surrounding area a bit more accessable.
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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:33 pm

Blooming marvelous, I like the bits of bogie etc but what is with he lego?!
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Post by MoelygestLR » Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:26 pm

Mr. Bond of the DVLR wrote:Blooming marvelous, I like the bits of bogie etc but what is with he lego?!
the two lego crates holds lego tools in them, they are quite close to scale so I though I'd use them as clutter. and the crates dont look out of scale either. the bit on top of the crate is just to stop the tools falling out.

the bogie was just placed there to make it look like it is being worked on.
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Post by Hancockshire » Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:21 pm

That is a beautiful shed. Enter it to that competition that the 16mm association do. You'll get a good prize in the buildings category :D
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Post by MoelygestLR » Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:36 pm

To be honest, I can't be arsed carting it all the way to stoneleigh!

And also taking it from my home to my line in porthmadog is risky enough, enough chance for it to break!
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Post by MoelygestLR » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:43 pm

Well Some recent progress has been made in that a soloution for the problem of mounting the doors has been thought up and the roof is almost ready to be assembled. I have the two peices cut and ready to make the roof along with the plastic sheet of imitating slate to go over the top. I'm aiming to try and get this finished for the AGM maybe to enter it into the scenery model of the year comp.

Also, I have found a place in america that makes scale cast machines, so I am going to place an order and put them in the shed, what engine shed doesn't have drills and lathes!

Maybe I will take some photos tomorrow when I do some more work on it
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Post by SillyBilly » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:59 pm

MoelygestLR wrote:what engine shed doesn't have drills and lathes!
A normal one, drills and lathes belong in the machine shop.
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Post by laalratty » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:07 pm

Wills right on this, only railways that really havn't thought about their buildings have locos stabled in machine shops, my guess is you don't want swarf getting into locos motion
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Post by PCLR » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:09 pm

Are engine shed has lot of drills and milling machenice at the rear of the shed
we have 5 rusting in the back i wont them so bad but there about 1 ton each
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