Winchester Paston & Portsmouth

What I have been working on of late has been installations of slide switches and electrical block gaps, to complete the tracklaying in the vicinity of the Winchester Yard Throat. Along with this, I have had to re-design my control panel to reflect the revised track configuration, and I to map out where electrical blocks will go.

Tags: control panel, Layout, Winchester

Recently I decided that it was about time to take the plunge, and go ahead and re-lay some of the track in the area around the depot and yard lead in Winchester.

Tags: Layout, track, track plan, turnout, Winchester

One of the boys, lacking all manner of tact, asked why things looked so junky around here, but good Mr. Pemrunning just laughed and shrugged. “Boys,” he said, “You’ve reach the very end of the world out here! This is right where God is still in the business of creation, and if I took you any further up the line, well then, you’d fall plum off the edge of the planet!”

Tags: funny, nscale.net, Winchester

My friends at Nscale.net sent along business car NSN 2012, which happened to arrive while I still had the boxcar NSN 2011 sitting in the yard! Here is the article I posted at NSN.

Tags: nscale.net, Winchester

Fully functional diesel engine servicing facilities are now a part of Winchester Yard! Back in October 2011 I began the development of this little wedge of plywood, which previously had been serving as a temporary shelf for tools and whatnot while working elsewhere on the layout.

Tags: building, engine, Layout, Winchester