Welcome to my new blogspot address. I'll be tagging all the narrow gauge stuff I post with NG and all the standard gauge stuff with SG. Anything that isn't gauge specific will be tagged with both so that it will show up in both the SG Feed and the NG feed.
I've been fairly busy at work recently so I've not had much time for modelling. However I have run my new standard gauge locomotives (a Freighliner 57 and Mainline 09) on the dining room table on some set-track and was fairly impressed. On Sunday night I connected up 4 lengths of flexitrack and ran the class 57 up and down it and was very impressed. Even with slightly dirty track and my old Lima controller it ran very nicely. I'm looking forward to seeing what it does with my new gaugemaster controller and some nice clean track!
I'm not going to abandon the narrow gauge either - when I get back from a week away with work I intend to get some more done on my pizza.
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Finally caught up with you... I look forward to what happens on the SG layout...
BTW Any chance you could let us wordpress rebels to comment using our Open ID address?
You should be able to comment using open ID now. I considered Wordpress but couldn't see how to fo tag feeds - which I wanted so people could subscribe to only NG or SG. And now that I'm here I'm not gonna switch again in a hurry.
I have no idea how you'd tag RSS for Wordpress either. I just seem to do funny things to Blogger, I don't know why.
You've got me thinking now: Two 20' containers would requre a 220mm deck for a 1:55 scale intermodal wagon, making a total length of up to 250mm if I really cut it fine. Maybe we should both build one and see how they come out.
I really, really need to finish the railcar first though...
Thanks for the OpenID window...
Blogger normally seems okay for me. I've switched to the blogger in draft dashboard now.
I'll have to try out building an intermodal wagon big enough for 2 20' containers as I think it'll look better than a shorted one. I think the wagon will need a decent amount of weight to be stable as it'll be 4 times as width of the gauge. Someone on NGRM online was suggesting that 3.5 times the gauge was normally the maximum.
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