Large Scale Central

'Gearing up' for the weekend here....

Me and a couple of pals will be running out teeny LGB-based layout at the Barnwell Garden Show this weekend. It’s only 12x8 feet, but has lots of track of a necessarily tight radiii - smallest and next one up, so that we can run ALL of the Bachmann geared stuff on the outside loop.

Between us we have five Shays, a Heisler and Climax, a live-steam Shay and a couple of small live-steam locos. I’ll also be running a few LGB littlies, and a couple of AccuCraft’s snazzy little Baguley-Drury dismals with suitable rolling stock.

There will be tea and cake for the locals, and coffee and pie for me and Bruce. You are all more than welcome to to drop by - outside the village hall behind the Montague Arms pub, which will, or course, be open during the show.

All donations will be going to help offset the enormous cost of adding on a small washroom to a building put up in the early 1600’s - for the same price we could have a good-sized three-bedroomed home on Vancouver Island…

There will be a couple of little movies on Youtube, I have no doubt, that’s if we can get persimmon from the parents to upload them if they have their children in them.

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Richard III Society Boys

Terry,

Waiting anxiously for the videos. I’d like to see all your Bachmann rolling stock.

What do you mean ‘all’? I have the D&RGW caboose and three PacCoast flats, oh, and a couple of Bachmann skeleton log cars. To haul behind my Aster/LGB White Pass mike I have seven or eight suitable passenger cars, and that’s it.

Got a few more AccuCraft Fn3 cars - a couple of brass cabeese, a reefer and three passenger cars to put behind my AccuCraft K-27.

I’ve built a Sheridan centre-cupola caboose, and one of Phil’s gorgeous MOW cabooses, and around twenty skeleton log cars and a crummy.

That’s it.

I mean, that really IS it.

Thirty-foot trestles, curved or straight?

Don’t gottem. They’s stick out into the neighbour’s backyard on each side.

Endless track vanishing into the mist that hangs around the tall trees in the distance?

Nope - no tall trees, this is agricultural East Anglia. No distance either, my backyard measures 11 x 12m.

But I DO the endless track…it’s circular.

Sorry to disappoint.

tac

I’ll have to pass, got other plans for this weekend…:wink:

tac Foley said:…we can run ALL of the Bachmann geared stuff on the outside loop.

I still would like to see your Bachmann stuff. :wink:

Forget the Bmann stuff …I would like to see the layout.

Always interested in seeing others definition of “teeny”

:wink:

Well, Sir, if 12x8 feet - not yards or metres - ain’t teeny, I don’t know what is.

It’s just a few boards clamped together on a few trestles, nuffin’ special, with a trio of battered old fartz playing with their trains and letting the gibbies play too.

tac

Should be a good weekend Tac…pub to hand as well…!!

Enjoy…hope the weather stays good.

OOps!.

Thanks Ross - alevai the weather should be warmer. Mind you, the weather mavens said so, so umbrellas and galoshes are the order of the day. On the other talon, we could always take it inside.

Best to all here

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Old Quarry boys

tac Foley said:

Well, Sir, if 12x8 feet - not yards or metres - ain’t teeny, I don’t know what is.

It’s just a few boards clamped together on a few trestles, nuffin’ special, with a trio of battered old fartz playing with their trains and letting the gibbies play too.

tac

Bet I do something interesting with it :wink:

Go for it. It’s in eight sections to fit in our teeny cars.

tac

Must be nice to have so many too help out.

I’m doing open house this Sat and Sun and with the recent heatwave, it’s now a last minute effort and I do everything myself. This includes tending to the ~1,200 square foot garden with 600 feet of track to clean and 21 turnouts to check/maintenance, aerial tram, automation and effects, water features, and many, many vignettes to set up.

But I do have until tomorrow at 1:00 PM, so piece of cake. :wink:

tac , today’s the day , I do hope you have a good day with trains and friends .

Let us all know , eh?

Mike

tac Foley said:

Go for it. It’s in eight sections to fit in our teeny cars.

tac

I’d take you up on that if I wasn’t a zillion miles away.

Mike and Joe and Ken and all - day went tolrubby well, but rained a bit. We could only run one steamie, my AccuCraft Edrig, renamed Sam after my grandad, so the live-steam Shay and Pete’s Ruby+tender were rather sidelined. Surprisingly, although the Bachmann Heisler and Shay ran wellaround the R1 LGB track, the Climax, with its long rear-end drive-shaft, did not. As this loco usually runs around 15 foot radius track, perhaps I was over-optimistic in my expectations that it would run the same as the other locos, after all, it is the shortest of them all.

Anyhow, Pete took some video, which, as soon as he puts it on YT, I will notify to this forum.

But hey, Gentlemen, please don’t get all excited - this is a little LGB-based layout on a few bits of wood, not a showy display layout with waterfalls, injuns attacking forts, windmills and watermills, high trestles, tunnels and other exciting features…the only scenery there was George, my little galvanised windmill from Axell, named after a fan of mine.

tac
Ottawa Valley GRS

Todd Brody said:

Must be nice to have so many too help out.

I’m doing open house this Sat and Sun and with the recent heatwave, it’s now a last minute effort and I do everything myself. This includes tending to the ~1,200 square foot garden with 600 feet of track to clean and 21 turnouts to check/maintenance, aerial tram, automation and effects, water features, and many, many vignettes to set up.

But I do have until tomorrow at 1:00 PM, so piece of cake. :wink:

Call me unfeeling if you will, but I somehow find it very difficult to feel sorry for you.

tac

I’m beginning to wish I hadn’t started this thread. Right now I’m feeling like a dog watching TV.

tac

Would you like a bone to chew on tac ?

Mike

Yup.

tac [woof]