We need to eat good food! Right?

Regards,

Timaximus

DSG? Mitropa? CIWL? ICE Bordrestaurant?

Jimmy

Last weekend we finished the turn-table location.

The idea is to park 2 steam locos aside the station track nr. 1.





Regards,

Timaximus

Dear MRR friends,

It is time for the summer stop again. See ya next winter.

Now i have time for my other two hobby's LEGO and my favorite game since the early 90's.



Regards,

Timaximus

Last weekend I started with building the shunting extension. I will use these tracks also as parking space for trains. Let’s say it is a small 'shadow station' but then in the open.

That is what is missing on this lay-out. The materials to finish these tracks and feedback contacts will arrive today.













For the ramp from the main track to this new shunting area I will use a mix of R=1114,6 mm and R=643,6 mm.

Red is R=1114,6 mm (24912) and blue is R=643,6 mm (24530).

I first build form the shunting area to the green arrow. After that I can see better which track parts I need to buy more for the curves.





Between the building process there was a lot of driving. And at some moment when I was standing with my face to the laptop I heard a big bang! Immediately I pressed the emergency button and after that I start looking where the big bang came from.

The RAM Tee rammed the container train which is to long for the short track section. I forgot to insert the correct route inside the trainride for the container train. So yesterday I made some corrections inside WDP.




I also inserted the extension inside WDP. And you can see that this is also the max for the small laptop screen (17,3”). So I am thinking about a new PC for the trains. Probably a HP Slim desktop with a 24” iiyama touch screen and wireless mouse+keyboard.





I also buy some components to make the 'traverse' less noisy (hopefully). Is is a Faulhaber engine.





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Timaximus

Hello Henrik,

At the moment I do not build MOC's.

I built the Lego from the original drawing.

The next one will be the STAR WARS 'Cantina'.

I buy all these Lego STAR WARS items for my 8 year old son of course.

We dismantled the Ninjago City and Harbour las month so now my son is building some kind of Roblox inspired prison or something.

I looked at your creations, and maybe later we will build things like that too, for now it is mostly building from drawing and play with it.

Regards,

Timaximus

Hi Timaximus

A quick stop by and hello from the North. As I had to dismantle my own layout (due to teenagers!) I have enjoyed occasionally to check in on the Forum - was amazed this morning to see how far you have come. Still remember how your previous layout was setting standards for the rest of us - can see that is still the case with your new layout. Looking forward to follow your progress - and are again heavily considering starting a new layout myself. Thanks.

Regards,
Thomas

I ordered some XPS plates for the viaduct between the main track and the shunting extension.

So now we are officially started with the scenery.





Regards,

Timaximus

I cut the first XPS curves for the viaduct.

I build it in steps so now I wil try to create pillars for these curves first.

The XPS plates are easy to shape with thermic cutter, saw, knive and sanding paper.





Regards,

Timaximus