T.A.C.T. NEWS
This page is the company 'notice board' so to speak, where the latest news from the line is shown! Things like alterations to the 'permanent way', new wagons and van's, new buildings and rebuild's!
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Poor old 'Nipper'...All in bits! Just think..."go and have a run with 'Nipper"...out into the garden, do all the bits for a run and the the stinking engine wont light up! Off comes the jet...jet cleared...jet on engine...still wont light...give up in digust!! Memory jumps in of my rubbishy Merlin Monarch and its dirty gas tank 'made down a coal mine'...off come's gas tank for a good wash out! Loads of rubbish come's out. Kind suggestion from a live steam 'Guru' suggest's using coffee filter paper in gas supply pipe as a 'filter'...I will try anything for no hassle! I think deep in my mind having all battery driven engines as no hassle like the above and as my hearing is so bad I just see a engine 'running' with no sound attached...no chuffing...no whistle...The engine could be running on bread and butter and I would be none the wiser! (31/07/2010)
Company Track Laying Department
Just to the right of the picture at the top of the page is the newly laid out goods yard at Reynoldston Junction. The picture above shows it in its finished state. The four way pointage is created by one Peco right hand turn-out and two Peco 'Y' turn-out's attached to the above right-hand turnout's 'stubs' to get the four lines shown. The actual length of this arrangment is thirty-nine inches but the cost of a four-way turnout would be beyond my pocket! This scale is so big one has to do arrangment's like this to fit it all in without looking daft.The second line from the left is the 'MAIN' line but as you can see in the distance the line goes straight ahead beyond the junction turn-off to where there is going to be a low relief factory front made from 'JigStones'. The three sidings are for operational interest. You can see the three buffer stops I scratch built out of 1mm. brass and 10 BA nuts and bolts. (24/06/2010)
The Reynoldston 'Junction' Turnout
Here you can see the new right-hand turnout that gives Reynoldston its 'junction'. The 'main' line curves around to the right and on down to Rhubarb End! The other line that goes straight ahead will soon lead to the new low relief conserve factory that I am currently casting 'Jigstones' for. (10/06/2010)
Amalgamated Conserves Building Department
Useless Information! A 10kg bag of quick-setting cement (plus silver sand) produces 180 full size building blocks and 79 half building blocks of the 'Jigstone' building system! Here they are in all of their glory...My poor dried-out hands. (24/06/2010)
