Brookford - now with O14 Narrow Gauge
Brookford now sports twenty one feet (a scale quarter of a mile)
of two foot gauge track, around the existing yard area,
then leading off up an extension to a new area of baseboard.
That's 14mm gauge in 1:43 7mm/ft scale.
Hudswell Clarke well tank by P L S, on Flickr
The track is built with Peco Code 82 flat bottom rail soldered to PCB sleepers
as it's all being covered with cinder ballast to rail web height.
Lots of scenic work to be done up the "hill" - the extension has a gradient of one in thirty -
not too unprototypical! Anyway the Simplex will haul its train of seven tippers up ok,
even with lead weighting to steady them.
There's now more of a scrap dumping area in this corner,
probably to include the remains of a runaway tipper wagon that came off at the bottom of the i in 30 !
Here the trusty electrostatic teastrainer (flyswatter from eBay and teastrainer from
Poundland - total cost £3.79) is brought back into use.
The additional grass is being scattered using matt varnish as adhesive,
while the rails and flangeways were protected with narrow masking tape.
The loco is a Simplex diesel, from a Nigel Lawton kit, modified with the addition of a cab,
while the tippers are from the KBScale range, using his pin and single link couplings.
The fuel bowser wagons are from KBScale as well.
They are half way through their weathering process, as is the loco.
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