Projects
3" Burrell Agricultural Engine
Project drawings While the bulk of the components to make up the engine are now 'on the shelf', and the boiler is maturing nicely, lack of time has been preventing progress. Work has also been hindered by the damage to both sets of drawings during the floods last year. While not under water, the damp conditions have resulted in many of the drawings becoming unreadable, hence the move to copy the information into TurboCAD. In addition a little external help is being utilised to hopefully bring the engine to a running state over the next couple of years. The gallery of pictures will expand as the work progresses.
5" Gauge Springbok Locomotive
The chassis for this was acquired some time ago and is now in a state where a boiler is the next step, but funds are being directed to completing the Burrell first with the intention of obtaining a boiler for the Springbok once we have steamed the Burrell. In the meantime the drawings for the Springbok were stored along with all the other drawings and now need copying, something that can be done without the expenditure of money - only time. So these will also appear as they are processed. In the meantime, documentation from the original ME articles is now available along with a new set of drawing.
Isle of Man Railway
Over the last few years, birthday and christmas presents have consisted of items from the Acucraft and Viking 15mm Scale Isle of Man Railway model series, and up until now these have sat on the shelf along with other similar sized buys from ebay. A short circuit of track has been laid down from tiem to time in the lounge, but this does not allow the engines to really perform, so now the garden track is slowly taking shape. It is planned as a portable structure, so it can be dismantled as required, and a permanent route around the garden will need a lot more track yet. Picture Gallery
Initial layout - and the main loop with the sections glued together, and the track secured.
Links to Garden Railway Sites.
N Gauge Railway Layout
Project pictures In order to check out various model railway related kit packages, we are in the process of putting together an N gauge layout with various controlled elements. Hopefully at some time we may have a web cam diaplay of the system and on line control as has been demonstarted by a number of internet model railway sites. But don't hold your breath, other work is taking a much higher priority. My collection of N Gauge kit is slowly growing.