Ox Mountain Railway

[trammayo]

Won't you have an expansion problem on the few hot days with the ali roof? - Thinking of how to seal it and not have the screws forced out by expansion.

Anything is possible - that why the joint seals on the original plywood failed (humidity expansion let moisture in). I am going to use Pu sealant adhesive - ordered and delivered next day to my son's - Hermes eat your heart out. This stuff sticks like the proverbial to a blanket. It is also very elastic. As the roof will be covered by six sheets, there should be some slight room for thermal expansion (said he hopefully). Having said that, the ply will shrink and the aluminium will expand!

The screws will be large wafer head self-tappers down the central spine (wood) of the roof and further strategic metal framed points. It will form its own bead over the sides of the trailer (well, it will when I beat it) and these will be screwed down also to keep the ply from curling up.

However, having been wrong many times before, I have a fifty-fifty chance! I was just thinking of my experience with bus panelling on wood and also metal framed bodies.

 

[Madman]

That looks like a Hartland mack, hauling your piggy back trailer carriers. But I see the hood does not appear to be original. Did you modify it ?

 

[playmofire]

The station canopy is a grand job, Mick, and you really do your viewers proud, not only in the quality of your layout but also in the quality of your trailer. (Maybe an extra see-through panel at each end fitted to the top of the present one and tilted back at say 45 degrees would help deter the taller long-armed fiddlers, as I call them, and also provide some extra shelter for the layout at the ends from the rain.

Look forward to seeing the next episode on the roof.

 

[trammayo]

That looks like a Hartland mack, hauling your piggy back trailer carriers. But I see the hood does not appear to be original. Did you modify it ?

Hi Dan - it is a Hartland product - as far as I know in original condition! Bought off a forum member it runs like the clappers even on 12v.
Maybe the same cab was used for the Mack version?

 

[trammayo]

The station canopy is a grand job, Mick, and you really do your viewers proud, not only in the quality of your layout but also in the quality of your trailer. (Maybe an extra see-through panel at each end fitted to the top of the present one and tilted back at say 45 degrees would help deter the taller long-armed fiddlers, as I call them, and also provide some extra shelter for the layout at the ends from the rain.

Look forward to seeing the next episode on the roof.

Thanks for your kind comments and suggestions. I can, if I wanted, run with just the front open but, surprisingly, the railways is one of the most photographed exhibits at the shows I attend. I had thought of an electric fence unit in clear view ticking away (but not connected to anything - although I'd love to sometimes). Surprisingly people have to touch and yank at things and that includes adults!

 

[playmofire]

Thanks for your kind comments and suggestions. I can, if I wanted, run with just the front open but, surprisingly, the railways is one of the most photographed exhibits at the shows I attend. I had thought of an electric fence unit in clear view ticking away (but not connected to anything - although I'd love to sometimes). Surprisingly people have to touch and yank at things and that includes adults!

And don't I know it! At the Kirkbean Playmobil Exhibitions (Link to this year's here: http://s704.photobucket.com/user/pl...il/Kirkbean Island Railway 2015?sort=6&page=1) the same "fiddler" has appeared year after year moving things around, not just on my display but from one person's display to another person's display. Some people don't seem to realise that displays have been set up after some thought has been given to what should be where.

 

[trammayo]

Absolutely fascinating line - so much going off. It deserves a wider audience! Thanks for the link - I enjoyed it.

 

[playmofire]

Absolutely fascinating line - so much going off. It deserves a wider audience! Thanks for the link - I enjoyed it.

Thanks, Mick, glad you enjoyed it. It's an idea I hope to develop and change each year at future Exhibitions. I've been going there since 2010 and had a different layout each year, but it gets harder and harder to think of something entirely new each year, so the basic idea will probably stay the same, as will the main station/goods yard islands (apart from detail changes) but some of the islands will change. For example, I'm thinking of having a Boris Island Airport with a golf course running across it at 90 degrees next year and maybe a mediaeval pageant at the castle one year. Also, last year {here: http://s704.photobucket.com/user/playmofire/library/Playmobil/Kirkbean Exhibition 2014?sort=3&page=1) I had a figure-of-eight and the extra movement in that (the "dashing about" as two ladies described it this year) seemed to hold people's (children and adults) attention more, so I'm going to try and fit that into this year's layout. (Oops! starting a thread high jack here - sorry!)

 

[trammayo]

It's amazing - all the scenarios covered - but I think 2015 is a winner! Like the idea of an airport and golf course - reminds me of a level crossing on a runaway (cannot think which country but it might be here!).

 

[playmofire]

It's amazing - all the scenarios covered - but I think 2015 is a winner! Like the idea of an airport and golf course - reminds me of a level crossing on a runaway (cannot think which country but it might be here!).

Thank you, Mick, for your encouragement, it's much appreciated. Gibraltar airport has a main road crossing the main (only?) runway. And in case the plane overshoots, I seem to recall rocks at one end and sea at the other!

(When we visited Gib in 1986, Diane and I walked up the walk, much to the consternation of the crew on the cable car on the way down when they asked for our tickets which you buy at the bottom before you go up. It was during the Libyan crisis we sat for a time watching Fleet Air Air jets landing below us on the airport runway and being stopped by arrester wires as if it were an aircraft carrier.)

 

[Miamigo259]

Hi Dan - it is a Hartland product - as far as I know in original condition! Bought off a forum member it runs like the clappers even on 12v.
Maybe the same cab was used for the Mack version?

Actually, your Mack seems to have the straight "hood" that was used on their "Sparky" steeple cab electric loco, rather than the traditional Mack Truck hood that it should have.....

"Sparky"


Mack


Either Hartland changed the design (or someone putting them together made a mistake) or the previous owner of your Mack swapped them over themselves!

 

[trammayo]

Actually, your Mack seems to have the straight "hood" that was used on their "Sparky" steeple cab electric loco, rather than the traditional Mack Truck hood that it should have.....

"Sparky"
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Either Hartland changed the design (or someone putting them together made a mistake) or the previous owner of your Mack swapped them over themselves!

I hadn't given it any thought at all until Dan asked. Eventually it will have some customisation from me (eventually). So learning that it's a hybrid will ease my conscience a little when I attack it!

 

[Gavin Sowry]

We have a main line running across an airport runway here in NZ. Needless to say, the line is not electrified

 

[G-force1]

We have a main line running across an airport runway here in NZ. Needless to say, the line is not electrified

Yup; you have railway tracks running down the centre of single track road bridges and straight across roundabouts as well!

 

[trammayo]

Apparently there are/were quite a few airfields with a rail line intersecting a runway - I was thinking of Ballykelly in NI.

 

[G-force1]

Ahh ! Found it!



I like the sign that shows 'priority'. You betcha it's got priority!!!!!

 

[Gizzy]

Not quite the same, but Sutton Bridge in S Lincs was a railway bridge, but was converted to a road bridge after the track was lifted....

 

[Beddhist]

I like the sign that shows 'priority'. You betcha it's got priority!!!!!

Nope, that is a road sign meaning you have to give way to oncoming traffic. For the train, there is a railway crossing and Give Way sign, so it has priority from that. The train also has a speed limit of 10 km/h here.

 

[trammayo]

Well, with No.1 son across, we managed to get the ali sheets cut to size, edges folded, and glued (and secured with screws too) to the ply roof.



Not the easiest of jobs but it needed the two of us. I wanted some etching primer but seemingly not available in this neck of the woods. Somehow, I don't have much faith in water based primers!

I use a plastic damp proof membrane as a seal along the top of the shutters/canopies. It works quite well and stops torrential rain being blown off the the inner edge of the canopy. It looks wrinkled because the hinges are underneath and the fastenings protrude.




The 'ends' were done last because I could pre form - had to be beaten over in situ.



Also replaced a lower panel aft of the wheel arch. The panel had suffered from an ingress of water (not fromm the wheel arch though!).



Some painting done, also the layout was vacuumed clean. Interior lights also being slightly revamped (if we can get some in Ballina). Then its a case of finishing off the TUV (touch up & varnish) before testing the odd train or tram. Then it will be hibernating in the hay shed until next April!

 

[playmofire]

Excellent work, Mick, and all set up for the new season next year.