Chris Gilbert's Gallery http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/ 12 rows en-gb 60 Nick Palette's photo's of Haston http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1792543.html Nick Palette's photo's of Haston Thursday 15 October 2009: Nick Palette's photo's of Haston

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]]> Thu Oct 15 2009 first train http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1762794.html first train Thursday 1 October 2009: first train

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]]> Thu Oct 1 2009 Layout build up http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1762680.html Layout build up Thursday 1 October 2009: Layout build up

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]]> Thu Oct 1 2009 WSOR http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1681557.html New HO layout 5' by 1' Monday 13 April 2009: New HO layout 5' by 1'

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]]> Mon Apr 13 2009 Loco used on OGB http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1208450.html Loco used on OGB Tuesday 13 February 2007: Loco used on OGB

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]]> Mon Jan 1 2007 Power Lines http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1173373.html Power Lines Monday 1 January 2007: Power Lines

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]]> Mon Jan 1 2007 New yard track added http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c1105716.html New yard track added Saturday 7 October 2006: New yard track added

With Wisconsin Central now in charge of the rail line serving Gold Goldern Black, work was started over the weekend ..... ....to add a yard track to easy switching operations... On the Saturday morning the MOW crew start clearing the undergrowth with a back hoe. By Sunday evening the new track was in place... .. with a very clean gondola ...with the backhoe just finshing off the ballasting. The Wisconsin Central used a very dirty ex Sooline GP30 on the MOW train...

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]]> Sat Oct 7 2006 Green Lake http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c966743.html First photos of my Green Lake Layout. Unfortunately Green Lake is no more. I was not happy with the way the industries were laid out. OGB now sit on the baseboards at the moment. I will use them for OGB 2 when I get around to building it. Monday 22 May 2006: First photos of my Green Lake Layout. Unfortunately Green Lake is no more. I was not happy with the way the industries were laid out. OGB now sit on the baseboards at the moment. I will use them for OGB 2 when I get around to building it.

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]]> Mon May 22 2006 2 The building of Old Goldern Black http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c928647.html It all came about after visit from a friend and fellow modeller Nick Palette.we were saying that it would nice to have a small layout that you could carry under your arm with just a few items of stock, and set it up in any room you wanted. We were both of the opinion that small layout should have a round run loop. Tuesday 18 April 2006: It all came about after visit from a friend and fellow modeller Nick Palette.we were saying that it would nice to have a small layout that you could carry under your arm with just a few items of stock, and set it up in any room you wanted. We were both of the opinion that small layout should have a round run loop.

I wanted the baseboard to be as simple as possible, so I did away with the sector place, replacing it with a small radius point. This only seemed to add six inches on to Jack's layout, so I wouldn't have to cut the ply. I checked that all the spurs would take the correct number of cars without any problems. 3 cars or loco and two cars on the back road. Two 54' covered hoppers of the flour spur. As these 54' Atlas' Center Flow Pressureaide Cars were the biggest cars I was going to use, so I needed to check they,d fit in the spurs either side ..... I also checked that they would fit in the loop...... ..... and a large locomotive could get past them.. ....at both ends with out any problems .........of the run-round loop The next two day were spent building the baseboard, laying the track and wiring it up The electrics are very simple, as only one locomotive is used at anyone time, all tracks are wired to a Gaugemaster handheld controller and a MRC diesel sound unit. The brass thing is the speaker is for the Sound Box,these are great for small layouts To operated the turnouts I used a length of HO rail with a paper clip solder to the end of it. It runs through a connector block which was glued to the underside of the layout, to hold it in place. A 2 The end of the rail that sticks through the front of the layout had a small wooden knob stuck on it. Two cars clear of the switch on the covered road. Monday morning was spent back at the hospital for more X-rays. In the afternoon I set out the background building The buildings are a mixture of Walthers background kits and Pikestuff with plenty of details added on. Once I had an idea of where they were going all I had to do was build them. While I was doing that it was time... .... to test it all out, my twin boys Thomas and Jack did that job for me. ....and seemed to have a good time..... Tuesday I built up the buildings and painted the ply green, adding some Woodlands earth and turf to it before it had time to dry. Wednesday it all went wrong (hence no photos) the grass looked to flat and unreal... But then on Thursday I found a My first tree.....eight more soon followed and were glued on the the layout. Next I tried some Woodlands foliage, this stuff is great, gets rid of all the hard edges and blends it altogether... That afternoon, I spent trawling through Carl Arendt's MICRO LAYOUTS FOR MODEL RAILROADS site, and landed on Jack Trollope's Box Street. This looked more and more appealing as the day went on and then by chance I found a piece of 4mm ply 6 feet be 12 inches hiding in the shed. I was in buisness. As a footnote, once I have taken some photos of it out side I emailed Carl Arendt. His reply was

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]]> Tue Apr 18 2006 3 building the sector plate http://thegilberts.fotopic.net/c924444.html The building of my sector plate Part one. Saturday 15 April 2006: The building of my sector plate Part one.

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