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Woodie - is that a gap I can see around your crossover? It looks like you can see the cutout but it may be my imagination.... I was given the advice of using heavy grade masking tape around the drill holes or cutouts to take loose ballast. Anything I guess to keep the stuff from fouling the...

Thanx Woodie - a great help. Luckily I will have only one elevated turnout (which I just bet will be the bugger to burnout one day...) and the rest either on the baseboard or close enough not to be a problem. I had already figured that the need for current to throw more than 3 switches would be...

Woody Did you say somewhere that you used the Peco motors with the extended pin only (PL-10E), or did I imagine that? If you did, did you use it exclusively (that is for all your turnouts) or just some? My thoughts were that the worry over using anything electrically operated with more...

Oh BTW Errol - is it "Happy Birthday" ???? If it is - Happy Birthday mate :D :D :D :) :) :D :D :D Bruce

Errol - your work looks great (that fence is really something...). As a 'first-timer" I have been fortunate enough (so far) to have taken heed of the creedo so often expressed here about "plan,plan,plan" and I have say that hearing someone such as yourself, having done such wonderful work as you...

Thanks Rich - very clever.;) But of course I do none of that - well mostly none of that...... least I think I do..... But then again........:D Bruce

btw - that's supposed to be "dead against THEM" :D

I've just come from talking to my local hobby shop about the PL-26's and he was dead against again, preferring to use a button instead of a switch. His concern is that the switches can burnt out motors if held down too long (who'd do that?) and told me that most modellers he knew much preferred...

Planeshavings Am still completing final layout and yet to lay all track. I will post some pics for you as soon as I get something worthwhile to see. The layout is structured pretty much the same as the Atlas, but I have added a foot to the width to give more room for track on the widest runs...

Hey Planeshavings - snap ! Your layout sounds like the same one I'm using (Atlas layout HO12?) - only mine will be L shaped, two benches. First will be 5' x 6' and the second 4' x 8'. I will be making allowances for an additional extension to the left 4'x6' for a lumber line etxension off the...

Shamus No luck in the city on the Shay kitsets, but there are plenty of finished but unpainted units around. Prices are favourable with those I could buy from the US and I think that for this time I will probably grab a pre-built unit. I do have every intention of attacking a kit and will give...

Thanks guys and no Wal Marts downunder:D even K-Mart struggles to survive.. Shamus, I will be trying to collect a Shay kit on my journey into the city today. If successful I'll let you know Bruce

Once again, probably a question asked many times.. Because there are no ready manufactured rolling stock or coaches for New Zealand railways, I have to create everything from kits. My questions are, which are the recommended glue types for both cast metal and resin. My previous experiences...

Hey Tyson, that is awesome work. You say there is "more work to do" but blowed if I can see where it's needed... If I can acheive one tenth of your standard of work on my layout, I'll be doing well. I have a couple of pig ignorant questions for you tho - 1. what size is your layout in...

great thread & so great advice for us new guys. only problem is that even though some of those scenes could (almost) be New Zealand at a pinch, the price of US$250 converts to about NZ$1,000,000 and so a bit out of my price range! and Planeshavings - I certainly would like to agree with your...

Hey Errol Thanks for the tips. I had discovered some of the UK stuff, but as you say, in brass and small gauge which won't be of value for me. As for the prices, well being half Scots, it is bloody hard to justify expenditure on ANYTHING, but I guess given that this whole thing has become...

and this is a Peckett 0-6-0T which was used in many of the colliery lines here. I have no idea if a model of this is even available, but if so it will only be a UK one for sure...

In case anyone is interested in a couple of the locos I mentioned before that I was looking for, I just received these pics from a mate so you can see what they are like. This first one is Barclay 0-6-2T model which is from a Scottish company called "Backwoods Miniatures"

In case anyone is interested in a couple of the locos I mentioned before that I was looking for, I just received these pics from a mate so you can see what they are like.

Pete yes you are quite correct. But down here, we refer to our forests as "the bush" - and in many cases, it literally is quite that. We do have very large forests (the Kaingaroa for instance is the largest man-made forest in the world - or it was..), but the Bush Tramways were mostly created...