Glorious NSE Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Next weekend we'll be headed North to Yorkshire with RS Tower, (think it's the first time we've been to Yorkshire with this one) bringing our usual mix of bigtime American railroading. RS Tower will be in modern mode this time, so expect our usual mix of midwest action from the usual well-known class 1s and some of the colourful regionals too... Â Â Here's a loco i've been working on for a couple of years, WAMX3817 is a GP38, originally built for the Penn Central way back, this example was then passed between multiple shortlines and leasing companies, till it ended up like this: Â Â Show details can be found here: http://www.halifaxmrc.co.uk/ Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 Should have mentioned, WAMX3817 was photographed on it's test run on a module by Koos Fockens, at the Western Union group's meet in Plymouth on Saturday, and not on RS Tower... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Should have mentioned, WAMX3817 was photographed on it's test run on a module by Koos Fockens, at the Western Union group's meet in Plymouth on Saturday, and not on RS Tower...  I didn't think it looked like part of the main layout. Unfortunately I can't make it to Halifax, but am looking forward to seeing the layout again soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Got to say that that is a superb job of ageing the loco Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 Unfortunately I plan to spend next weekend angle-grinding mortar in the cellar. I know what I'd prefer to be doing. Oh well, I suppose it gets me one step closer to a model railway room! Â Lovely loco Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Nice to talk to you at Halifax today. I've been wanting to see RS Tower in the flesh for some time now and it was every bit as good as I'd hoped. It really captures the mid west. It was interesting to talk about operations. So much better to see a layout operated with purpose rather than aimless processions of trains. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 3817 is wonderfully crusty.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
5050 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 I was chatting to the Despatcher yesterday for a while - was that you? (company houses etc.?) I thought the layout was excellent, lots going on and some very impressive consists!  I'll have to put our exhibition manager onto this thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 3817 is wonderfully crusty....  Craig - thought you might appreciate another "crusty" - starts at the 5th post down - ignore the translation which is a bit wierd ( the site is French)  http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://teamtrack.xooit.com/t984-Reseau-modulaire.htm%3Fstart%3D90&usg=ALkJrhg01Rk-SqJs395PjyMIMK1tRLOGwA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 Thanks all!  Just back and recovered (mostly) from the trip - didn't get back to Exeter till 1am thanks to some helpful Motorway (mis) Management so I didn't end up doing much of anything yesterday, beyond weathering a freightcar I bought at the show!  It was a great show I thought, plenty to see.  Unfortunately some electrical gremlins managed to sneak into the hall between testing the layout on Friday night and opening on Saturday morning, and it took us all morning to hammer them out, so apologies if you were trying to watch it then as you'll have seen trains stuck due to switch failures, derailments due to switches randomly throwing themselves under moving trains and all sorts of annoying glitchery.  Once we'd tracked the gremlins down and dealt with them firmly  it settled down and ran pretty well - even better with a wiring mod installed and getting the interlocking back in business on Sunday AM.    I was chatting to the Despatcher yesterday for a while - was that you? (company houses etc.?) I thought the layout was excellent, lots going on and some very impressive consists! I'll have to put our exhibition manager onto this thread!  Thanks! I don't think that was me, but I think I was the guy confirming which kits we'd used?  As we'd had a couple of those queries over the weekend, with a bit of googling I think this is the complete list that we used, with assorted cross-kitting and modding...  3-pack - City Classics 'Company Houses' (1x used complete, the other 2 used to provide several backscene flats) http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/195-112 DPM 'Emery Lane' (used as 1x complete house, plus 2x flats) http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/243-40400 Grandt line - Reese St Rowhouses (2x of the 3 included kits were used to make 4x flats) http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/300-5903 Atlas 'Kate's colonial home' http://www.atlasrr.com/Trackmisc/hokatehouse.htm    thought you might appreciate another "crusty"  Thanks Jack, that's pretty awesome!  There's a couple of us in the group getting into the rent-a-wrecks at the moment, there was also a 'Larrys Truck & Electric' tunnel motor appeared (a blue-box tunnel motor detailed up to the spec of the modern RTR models) over the weekend from Mel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 PS - apologies I didn't manage to get much in the way of pictures, I know a couple of guys were shooting some video, so I promise we'll update the thread with some nice visuals when they appear on YouTube. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxmoore Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 "Once we'd tracked the gremlins down and dealt with them firmly  it settled down and ran pretty well - even better with a wiring mod installed and getting the interlocking back in business on Sunday AM."  Was that the same problem you were experiencing at Exeter on 31 August?  Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 No, we managed to pick up 2 (I think) defects in cables during transit, giving us intermittent problems on the aux bus in particular - points ended up randomly working, or not working, or only working on a manual button and not via the computer/handset.  We did still occasionally have that issue that came up in Aug, but the mod we did Sunday AM appears to have finally cured it. We ended up extending the block of the diamond up the secondary main so that a loco consist can no longer bridge the block joints twice, and that appears to have fixed it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Rogers Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013   Here's a couple trains i filmed 2x Union Pacific Freights, a Intermodal & Reefer block  regards Neil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxmoore Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Guys - both videos say that they are "private"Â - you'll have to re-edit the settings for the rest of us to see them. Â Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 That's quite a serious Reefer Block...!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorious NSE Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 Modern version of your one from Peterborough :-) Â Ians been working hard doing the graffiti and weathering and the result is really good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
298 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 Modern version of your one from Peterborough :-) Which again was a more modern version of Brian's 40' ice reefers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxmoore Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Â Indeed! Â Ian's done an excellent job on those modern reefers. Â Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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