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Birds eye view

Birds eye view

Saturday 16 August 2014

After the party

The ferry terminal on the layout and an addition of a launch and barge kit I got at the show.

 Took one of my cars and cut it half for something to pull out of the water. This will be a nice little scenery change up to the ferry


A new loco I picked up at the Barrie show last winter its a Kato make before they started using the atlas drive mechanisms, so it has no flywheels inside and the electrical pickups are junk so its motion is jerky and tends to stop over switches when the wheels or the track is dirty.
At the show I could finally get some different perspective shots of the ferry
Heres the start of the launch kit I picked up at the show, its an artitec kit which also makes the ferry. Its an easy kit to build, simple resin base with laser etched metal and resin parts added on top.


 Got to test drive a bachmann 4-6-0 for a bit, was a very nice looking loco, had electrical pick up leads on the tender so going over the switches was smooth, it is dcc ready which doesnt matter to me as I only run dc.  Just wasnt sure if I wanted to back date the layout to the 50s /60s  it would mean I would have to invest in a lot of earlier era vehicles as well a rolling stock.
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2014 Bracebridge train show

A few photos of the 2014 Bracebridge Muskoka model train show I exhibited at last weekend. Lots of venders this year and only a hand full of layouts. Ive been finding lately older folk are getting out of the hobby or down sizing and are selling off their ho stuff.  So its been great if your into ho nows the time to get your hand on some good equipment and track. 




Now if I do another sectional layout heres how Im going to setup the track, using circuit boards and soldering the track to it then mounting it to the layout with small screws, it looks very clean and robust, very good job.










This is very interesting its a mini miter chop saw built on top of an old hard disk drive, The gentleman who owns it told me he picked up from a guy who makes them and displays them at the Kitchener train show, but he couldnt remember the guys name.

Heres a heavy equipment diorama, some nice looking models, wish the actually worked.