sncf231e posted:MNCW posted:sncf231e posted:
Fred, Very nice finds especially considering where you live. Hope you got a good price.
I've enjoyed watching trains run on your outdoor layout whenever you post. I think your set-up is pretty spectacular. Can you talk a little about the construction, the overall size, how long ago you built it, the track used and any issues of rust, etc.? Also, I remember seeing some vintage tinplate rolling stock bouncing along...anything ever get damaged in a derailment?
Tom
Thank you, Tom,
Something about the construction of my outdoor layout:
Around 1990, when I moved into my current house, I had some Gauge 1 live steam trains so made sure the new house had a back garden waiting for a Gauge 1 track. A friend designed a layout construction. I planned to have a double track oval. Total track length is 30 meter per track (60 meter total). I use Tenmille track (nickel silver bullhead rail) which is floating on ballast in a metal gutter. The gutter is resting on a metal construction with metal poles such that track is at about 75 centimeters from the ground. The metal construction and gutter was being built by a construction workshop; they took care of galvanizing the substructure which shows after more than 25 years still no rust. The Tenmille track is especially made for outdoor layouts and needs no maintenance, except for cleaning the railheads be fore a run. Four bus wires, one for each of the two rails of the two tracks, run through the ballast, and to each fishplate a wire is soldered which is clipped on to a bus wire. I later started to think about adding a gauge 0 track to my garden railway. At first I made plans to add a separate parallel track between my two gauge 1 tracks but found that there just wasn’t enough room. So I thought of adding an extra rail to one of my tracks, making a dual gauge 1/0 track. Since I also have some gauge 0 3-rail trains I also added yet another rail as third rail for 0 gauge. So I drilled small holes in all sleepers and added 2400 chairs and 60 meter of rail to the inner loop of my layout. Recently I added another 30 meter of nickel silver bullhead rail and some 1200 chairs to the outer loop so I can also run S gauge trains.
Regards
Fred
Fred, Thanks very much for all the details on your construction of your layout. That looks pretty darn sturdy. Keep posting those videos!
Tom
