Harry's Model Railway

Progress Report:

2007-01-20T10:57:00.000-08:00

After setting the intial outside/main line up, I am now in the prosses of fine tuning it so the train can run smoothly without stopping. As you can see in the photo below shows no scenery has been added until we have finished the basic track. You will also see the track is messy at the moment but once i start the scenery all will become clean. First though i will continue to clean, alter and fine tune until the outside line can be running smoothly and then my next priority will be the inner line.

Progress Report:

2007-02-19T13:25:00.000-08:00

Well we havent been making much progress lately on the track. The reason is we're having problems with one area of track shown below, where the train just doesnt go other the lines smoothly and keeps getting de-railed. My dad has kept working on it but has shown no progress for about 3 nights. Its things like this which are fustrating but need to be done and once it is done,progress will be back on track.

Meanwhile We have been making houses and other buildings for the track out of cardboard, save buying those plastic ones. I myself have even made a post office and plan on making a cafe to be called "The hillside Railway cafe". Here are some pics.

standard House that my dad makes.

some progress of my post office that i made.

Progress Report:

2007-02-20T13:06:00.000-08:00

Well we've managed to fix the peice of track that was causing us problems and now were on a roll. We've finished adding track to the inner line/goods line so it goes properly into the goods yard which we added more board to the edge of the main board so we could have a bigger good yard.

extra board where the goods yard is going to be.

The unfinished inner line going into the goods yard.

The finished inner line going into goods yard.

And a video too: just click on the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVNaRW8z8mc

Progress Report:

2007-03-02T09:52:00.000-08:00

Well alot of work has been going on conserning the the inner line going into the goods yard, starting to add scenery such as brick walls to support the track going into the goods line. Heres some photos to show you. Made by me and my dad.

Its been a long long time...

2008-01-25T12:57:00.000-08:00

And to be honest, there has been little prgress since the last update. HOWEVER, there has been some progress and we are now continueing to progress further. So for now i will update you with what has happened since I last posted.

We now have a suitable goods yard.

Scenery is starting to take shape, we now have a unfinished backdrop, and progress is being made in the goods yard area. We also have built a bridge to enable the cars to accsess the goods yard and the car park.

All comments are welcome :)

Progress Report:

2007-02-12T11:57:00.000-08:00

Ok, so after mentioning in my last post about our abitiouse idea for the inner/goods line we have hit a slight problem, but no not to do with the line going into the goods area. The problem is that the inner line wont run paralelle to the main line round the corners as the curved tracks are not sharp enough. So we spent 10 mins thinking on what to do, after all, scrapping the inner line would make the track pretty simple and boring almost. So we decided to keep the inner line but make it shorter and raise it up at the back so it runs over the back of the main line and...we think it works. Good news too, for those that are not too sure what i am talking about i have photos!

Raised inner line going into goods yard.

Inner line raised over the main line.

So much more to tell but i think thats enough for one post.

oh p.s check out the messyness again...i see another clean up coming.

Happy Birthday Dad!

2007-01-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

Have a good one!

Progress Report

2007-02-08T09:46:00.000-08:00

Ok so we have finally got the outside track runing smoothly as possible. I did have a video and photos but it seems to of been deleted. i also had a good tidy up of the track but its soon becoming messy again as we begin to start the inner line. For the inner line which will efectivly be the goods line we had a rather ambitouse idea to get the line into the goods yard by raising the line up and curving back onto itself goin other the main outside line and its own line (inner) and then slowly lowering back down into the goods yard. See this was the part we needed pictures, il take some more.

sidenote
From the last post you may of recinised it was my birthday or should i say my dads, so far i have been writing this post on behalf of my dad as a present for him to see on his birthday. So just to let you know this is harry's son writing this which i should soon change if i can add more authors. My dad may occasionally post when he's got the time but its mostly likley going to be me keeping you informed :).