03-21-2011, 05:40 AM
Thanks Koos.
Your interest is appreciated
Just a line, as promised, to bring you the third and final video in the trilogy of videos I made last night to show how the testing of the newly laid track went. (sighs of relief all round no doubt; I promise to improve :cry: ).
This shows the second part of the loco in the process of running round its boxcar, assisted by the 'Hand of God', as the board containing the other section of the loop has yet to be attached. Just a point of note: there are two instances of 'Gravity Shunting' in quick succession which are purely 'unintentional'
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The first is caused by the draw of the under-track magnet on the box car; the second by the slight gradient that the track undergoes on the entry to the final board #4 - a consequence, unfortunately, of building baseboards on an ad hoc basis coupled with the assumption that all the materials supporting the track are the same thickness
Never mind, it's all part of the learning curve, and at least I can now play trains
Thanks for looking in.
Jonte.
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Your interest is appreciated
Just a line, as promised, to bring you the third and final video in the trilogy of videos I made last night to show how the testing of the newly laid track went. (sighs of relief all round no doubt; I promise to improve :cry: ).
This shows the second part of the loco in the process of running round its boxcar, assisted by the 'Hand of God', as the board containing the other section of the loop has yet to be attached. Just a point of note: there are two instances of 'Gravity Shunting' in quick succession which are purely 'unintentional'
.The first is caused by the draw of the under-track magnet on the box car; the second by the slight gradient that the track undergoes on the entry to the final board #4 - a consequence, unfortunately, of building baseboards on an ad hoc basis coupled with the assumption that all the materials supporting the track are the same thickness
Never mind, it's all part of the learning curve, and at least I can now play trains
Thanks for looking in.
Jonte.
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