Taita Gorge Railway





:) Ran out of track to complete the East Dock, at Taita Gorge. Had enough off cuts laying around to get the idea of what the completed siding will look like. It will be long enough to hold my Passenger train cars.

I actually managed to have four trains out on the line at the same time today, something previously unheard of, thanks to the extra siding, and isolating sections.

This mad rush, of course, is for the boys coming around next week, when it rains. 'You should have come last week' >:(
 
Great photos. Nice to see a shot of the "whole" garden (first one) to give me a feel for line :o More please ???
 
KandNWLR said:
Great photos. Nice to see a shot of the "whole" garden (first one) to give me a feel for line :o More please ???
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??? No, that's only half of the garden ! I'll post a selection of shots later.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
??? No, that's only half of the garden ! I'll post a selection of shots later.
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;) Here's the 'looking other way' shot, taken a while ago... lots more greenery there now.

 
Nice - never thought of switching to live steam ;) But I do like the little LGB Feldbahn lok. :P
 
>:( ...and you know what day is approaching, too.

P.S. Need to 'borrow' some of the club's LGB track sets for Sunday.... 1 x R1 (or R2) curve, and up to 6 x straight sections. That will make the sidings useable, and look finished. :D
 
JRinTawa said:
Yep, I'm worried too :( I'll bring some track.
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;) Thanks. Too wet to work outside, let alone play trains, I see. Mind you, last night I did a spot of running, in the drizzle. Stood in the garage and watched things do things that trains do. I was just making sure that my 'new' Train Engineer' system still worked... it did.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
I was just making sure that my 'new' Train Engineer' system still worked... it did.
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:D Did the same trick again last night, while preparing my wife's new Reefer car for service (came with plastic wheels, but the price was right). Come time to shut down, and I had an 'Ah oh' moment.... train did not respond to the TE. Wakey wakey, it had gone to sleep.... try turning it on!
 
Hehe, been there done that. At least you know you'd run for at least 15 minutes without neededing to do a thing but enjoy the trains passing! ;)
 
Gavin Sowry said:
:D Did the same trick again last night, while preparing my wife's new Reefer car for service (came with plastic wheels, but the price was right).
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Aha! You found something on Trademe! 8)
 
Beddhist said:
Aha! You found something on Trademe! 8)
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;) Indeed. Actually, my wife is the 'trader'. One day I just happened on a Reefer with a picture of a Cable Car, just the sort of San Francisco souvenir we wanted, without the hassle of carrying it in baggage, and Customs checks. Then she got another, and another.... she/we (sort of) collect beer billboard reefers.
 
:-\ Plan B, get some photos of all today's work for tomorrow's running day in case it rains, and we get another washout (must consult Messers Duckworth and Lewis for a solution on that front).

As noted, I ran out of track, so JR is bringing some over to complete the siding, if only for the day. Here's the dig out, in the time honoured fashion.



Better not rain, I've got the beers in. Note the tiny structure below the moss, that houses the controls for the isolating sections at Taita Gorge Station. That was today's main job, wiring up. Did the switches with a 40W iron, no sweat, but needed grunt for the rail connections, so fired up the 100W monster that I inherited from my father, and went in for brunch while it warmed up. Came back, iron was cold as, well, a lump of iron. Luckily, it was a wire in the plug (anything else, and I'd be as lost as).



You know the rules, if it is likely to go 'bang', get some other mug to test it.......



He didn't melt.

The switch panel was another saga too..... I normally make panels out of plastic that they use for advertising (it's free), made a few, even have one for my garden railway, in the shed. Well, after finally finding my 12mm spade drill bit, I drilled the requisite holes, and painted the plastic matt black, as I always do. Paint finally dried, go to fit switches.... not enough thread. Scratch the panel idea. In my box of 'things that will come in handy, one day', under the round tuit ( a present from my wife), were some plastic edge protectors from box of tiles. After humming and haring, and drilling, the switches got mounted in these. A tad rough, but, tomorrow's getting close, and they do the job.

A certain aviation enthusiast, who moonlights on TV doing imitations of weather forecasting, has just advised of coolish day, with little chance of rain......
 
KandNWLR said:
Great photos. Nice to see a shot of the "whole" garden (first one) to give me a feel for line :o More please ???
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O0 Well, I didn't go high as a kite to shoot this...



but it gives an impression of the railway. :)
Photo taken today, especially for our man in France, who is not in France as we speak.
 
::) Wondering about today's Galloping Goose Shoot. Well, it rained... right on stumps, so a good arvo was had by all. We bagged two Geese...



In the rush to get the track on which these Geese are sitting, JR's one flew the coop (I know where it is, he said, at home ??? ).

I believe JR is doing a thread on today's activities. I've been without both cable TV, and Internet, all day.... some hoons from down the way thought the back streets around our way would be a good way to avoid the booze bus, and they wiped out one of the poles that carry 'my' cable. Now, my taxes are also paying for their recovery in Hospital.
 
Gavin Sowry said:
O0 Well, I didn't go high as a kite to shoot this...



but it gives an impression of the railway. :)
Photo taken today, especially for our man in France, who is not in France as we speak.
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Many thanks! Currently in Belgium on motorway heading to, errr, the Netherlands. :P
 
Here you go, the link to WGRG running day on Sunday http://www.gscalecentral.net/g-scale-pictures/wgrg-visit-to-the-taita-gorge-railway/
Warning, it contains several pictures of the railway owner ;)
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(When you have friends like me who needs enemies ??? )
 
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