He was a big man!   He barked at me many times, but I am going to miss him a lot

God Bless you John

Rod Young

2020_12_31 New Years Eve. Last report for 2020

The trains are able to run the whole map...finally :D

Cheers

Rod

2020_12_24 Christmas Eve.... The golden spike has been ordered!

 2020_12_24 The day arrived and finally the new helix was opened yesterday. 

A bit of a surprise stopped trains from running as the link behind  Honeysuckle is a return loop. Hopefully if Christmas does not get in the way I will be able to install a duplex frog juicer to sort that out :D.

Also Father Christmas arrived on Monday last with a sack of Auscision B Classes!

They test ran ok, and documentation excellent.

TRACK is all joined up!

The final piece of track is in and now the layout is completely laid out. Just scenery to do now.

The top of the helix is now all joined up!  The wiring is connected and trains have circumnavigated the entire SG.. WOW  all these years, and we are finally here. Just another reverse loop to sort out :(

The supports were easy and my worries about this piece of roadbed were put to bed. You could stand on it, almost :)

Cheers and Seasons Greetings to you all

From my Family to yours

May you all be blessed this Christmas and this new Year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year :D

Rod Young

2020_12_18 Nearing the end (of trackwork)

 2020_12_18 

Gosh we are  near the end of the track work! One right hand curve and we will see the light at the end of the tunnel :D

The track on the helix has reached the top! and as Al tests the track he has laid, I connect the track base to the SG escape road leading to the other "room"

This should be the final base board connection! I had to adjust the height with a saw and multi function vibration tool. But it worked out just fine. Could not screw it down but liquid nails did the job.

Ok extra supports and we maintained a strong connection which maintained the 1.5% gradient. This was of course due to the planning of my mates at Kilmore East Social Group! Thanks again Steve and Ron :D

And it looks like the first train through has a long wait for the

Golden Spike ceremony

Cheers

Rod

2020_12_07 Work continues.

 2020_12_07   Posty arrived!

Black Friday Sales!  This year I was not ill, and I scored a nice haul!

A great product and I wish  it was around 10 years ago :(   See them here       Click on blue :)

No discount apart from the normal quantity one. Nick is a friendly helpful guy.

This one was a black Friday sale and set me back $78 Au. It is a usb charged compressor with a 30 minute or more battery.

I am a lazy painter, maybe this little spray system will help?

Auscision had a great 20% off sale and it helped a lot to make my mind up with this purchase. I did not have a pudding bowl N set.

Nor did I have a V/line First Series X.

 

So I am still aiming to die with the biggest number of locomotives. Ha Ha

Cheers

Rod

ps the helix continues only 10 m of double track, a pair of points to fill the hole and lay the golden spike.