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Next working bee is: 3rd Wednesday,
Oct 2017, 7.45pm start - Status: ON !
LEFT: The room before the work started........
RIGHT: First train runs on the layout 2nd May 2006.
I finally have the space for a model railway. Is it now time to stopdreaming of having a big model railway to dreaming what to do. But what do I want, what is possible, will it last, will it pass the test of timein operations ?
I'd suggest for the reader who has some time, and hasn't visited this site, to read the Layout Design, then read the updates, oldest to the most recent. Have a look at the other topics, then take a look at the plans...
Because this layout is slowly under construction, you are seeing all the blow by blow photos, and as ther layout progresses I have added photos and youtube videos.
This is a lifetime project. Visitors are most welcome !
I live in the Northeastern Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia.
- Name of Railroad: The Medbury Line.
- Scale: HO (1:87)
- Size of Layout: 32 x 21 Feet.
- Prototype: South Eastern Australian - broad and/or standard gauge.
- Period/era: Modern back untill 1950's.
- Layout Style:Double deck, Around the Walls.
- Layout Height: Not decided yet.
- Benchwork: Open Grid.
- Roadbed: 12mm Ply track base, cork etc.
- Track: Some handlayed code 80, some commercial code 100 for staging yards. The rest code 83 wooden & concrete sleepers.
- Length of mainline run: Not determined yet.
- Turnout(Point) minimum: no 6., though most points will be no.7
- Minimum curve radii: 30 inches. Preferred radius 36 inches.
- Maximum grade: 1:45
- Scenery construction: All forms but lean towards Styrofoam, as little plaster as possible.
- Control: DCC control (NCE radio based) with Decoder Pro for loco configuration, and some form of computer control for signal & points.
- Starting Date: 2001
- Completion Date: TBA (2020 !)
There is alot of useful information out on the Internet. Here are a few sites that I identify as being useful, for planning and inspiration.
- LED shop online for LED lighting ideas
- Tam Valley Depot for servo control
- Fast tracks - making points with jigs
- NCE - My Dcc system