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Post by WardWorks on Apr 26, 2020 22:29:59 GMT -6
Umm... There was a sequel involving Lord Elpuss and Lord Derwent's funeral train, involving a large explosion and near vapourisation of a steam loco on the front of the train... Seems Lord Elpuss thought he knew why Lord Derwent's attempt at the same thing had resulted in a huge explosion and several acres of prime grazing land being so thoroughly burned out that even now, 25 years on, nothing grows on any of said land... Anyhoo, as events had it, Elpuss turned out to have had no clue as to why the Derwent modified loco exploded as it did (barking up the wrong tree was and as usual for Lord Elpuss), and the result of his covert modification of the loco fuel and modified regulator control, safety valve and various gauges in the loco (so they'd show only about half of what they should have re boiler pressure etc;), blew the backhead of the loco into the tender, hard enough to send both front and rear faces of the tender, plus all the coal contained therein, back into Lord Derwent's funeral carriage at huge speed, shredding the carriage, funeral bier, coffin and what was left of "Old Banger" and scattering it all far and wide across the station area. To this day, no trace of Lord Derwent's remains, (or much of anything else involved come to that), has been found.... When it was found that one of Lord Derwent's sons had financially backed the manufacture of some of the modified parts fitted by Elpuss, the Title of Lord Derwent was removed by Royal proclamation and Parliamentary Assent.
That one's still a bit raw to my mate who was to have inherited the title upon his Father's death - he and his brother have not spoken since
Regards
OB (the madman of Derwent) ð
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Post by JCON on Apr 27, 2020 0:24:14 GMT -6
Oh my, the total end!!!  |
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Post by WardWorks on Apr 27, 2020 1:39:31 GMT -6
That was truly his final Detonation
His son and his great friend Lord Elpuss, ensured he went out with a bang worthy of the name and his reputation (and saved his family the funeral costs as well) The Baroness covered the expenses re the locomotive etc; probably willingly, (sheâs great friends with Lord Elpuss too) and she does still cover various expenses associated with the line and its equipment. The local population all thought it was a worthy way for âOld Bangerâ to go out and were quite thankful that there was nothing sticky to be removed from anything this time. The remains of the station at Derwent Water were rebuilt by British Railways, safe in the knowledge that such damage wonât be happening again (Lord Elpuss has signed all sorts of documents since, to the effect that his days of experimentation to do with anything linked to railways are over) Heâs now employed by the military, devising methods of vehicular destruction with explosive substances and devices and is doing very well at it too, such matters seem to be âright up his streetâ as various high ranking military spokespersons have indicated. Things are going to be far quieter around Network Derwent it seems.
Regards OB
The madman of Derwent ð
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Post by JCON on Apr 27, 2020 8:05:43 GMT -6
And he rode off into the sunset like all heroes do!!!
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Post by WardWorks on Apr 27, 2020 8:45:54 GMT -6
Who did ? ðĪ
Lord Derwent was blown into the sunset and Elpuss kinda let the side down by swearing off railway related experimentation (the lily livered swine !)
The only explosions on Network Derwent these days are those made by passengers with indigestion or small boys who've eaten some mix of foodstuffs guaranteed the give flatulent results on a loud scale, mainly to impress their schoolmates with either noise or lethal fallout within the confines of a railway carriage (scored on how many windows get opened with extra points given for how many of their fellow travellers suddenly leave to find seats in other carriages on the train)... all very tame really, today's kids are not even capable of causing the air to go a sulphurous yellow or a radioactive green, nor can they cause paint to crack and peel, the way the writer and his schoolmates could do back in our schooldays...
Although for a Railway Modeller, its much easier to recreate things as they are now. Locomotive explosions were easy enough to model (using firecrackers in locomotives), but rather expensive (replacement locos cost heaps !) The exhibition going public would not have appreciated such things, or the byproducts of such things (plastic shrapnel from shattered loco bodies penetrating their or their kids' bodies and bodily appendages), and if you believe we did any such thing, you'll believe anything ! ð
Regards
OB (the madman of Derwent) ð
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Post by JCON on Apr 27, 2020 9:52:55 GMT -6
Lmao!!! I was talking about you...
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Post by WardWorks on Apr 27, 2020 17:41:20 GMT -6
I don't normally ride off into the sunset, I've seen it done for real though... literally.
Usually involved a heavy thud and a bleeding nose and a great deal of laughter from the audience as the player involved picked themselves up, having forgotten the sunset was an overhead projection onto a fly sheet about 6 inches off a brick wall ! ð Also seen a player fall through the sunset once ! ð
That all happened during a previous lifetime as a theatrical lighting designer/operator...ð
Regards
OB of funny theatrical memories ð (Still working on the Baroness's bio)...
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Post by WardWorks on May 8, 2020 20:04:02 GMT -6
Hi Folks
Errr... ðĪ... The layout wasn't doing it for me, so pax units/trains have been banned (I've always threatened to do a railway that's freight only), with Lord Derwent out of the picture and Lord Elpuss sworn off railway mangling err... experimentation completely, a few bits of track needed to go, so I rang dial-a-Dalek and the problem pieces were exterminated in fast fashion (with ZZTop's "Eliminator" CD playing LOUD (ain't no other way that CD can be played !) ðļ...
That's the point that crosses over from the former platform road to the 3 way on the mainline eliminated !
And that gets rid of the start of the nasty, too tight curve on the mainline ! Dunno who that long haired git with the long scarf who just stepped into a blue phone box and disappeared was either..ð
What's going on ? Well... I have to inform you there's waaay more destruction coming yet !... The Quay is next on the demolition list (just working on the safest way to get shot of it and reclaim the land) Sorry, I have no idea where or who made the original 72nd scale Daleks, but I do know who "accidentally" copied them (and still has the moulds !) ðĪŦ
Best Regards
OB of getting destructive ð§Ļð
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Post by JCON on May 8, 2020 21:32:13 GMT -6
Oh my, here he goes off the deep end again folks!!!  |
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Post by WardWorks on May 9, 2020 0:17:15 GMT -6
Nah... second nature to an experienced hand like moi ð I did say my best track plans over the years have been modifications after I've started (or nearly finished) a layout ! ð If I didn't say that, I should have/meant to ! ð
Absolutely nuttin' like "too hard" about it at all... Ballast glued down with plain pva and water and rather solid when dry (in quite dangerous knuckle scraping fashion ! ð) , just melts and goes back to a gooey/sticky mass when doused in neat Isopropyl... Drench in isopropyl, count to 20 and get into it with a palette knife, sleepers lift out easily (provided you've removed all the track pins ! ð) and the ballast is easily disposed of by a gentle scrape with the palette knife. Clean up is then only a shop vacuum cleaner away ðð Easy peasy - proper job ! ððĩðķ
Its all sorted and running as well as it ever did now. Tomorrow I'll reclaim the area intended to be sea from around the pier, thus seeing the seaside off and gaining the ground to lay, wire and ballast a couple more sidings where the platform was intended to go.. ð!
No biggy, I'll rework the control panel after that ! THEN at last I'll get to scenery and backscenes, my fave parts of Model RR construction ! ð
Regards to All
OB of resting quite comfortably on my laurels ð and having a ðš (or two) ðĪŠ
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Post by JCON on May 9, 2020 9:39:19 GMT -6
Enjoy the refreshments...
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Post by WardWorks on May 9, 2020 17:23:19 GMT -6
I did (hic ! ðē) Yesh shir, I shorely did (hic ! Buuuuurrrrrppp ! ðĪŠ ) I don't have a drinking problem, I get drunk, I fall over.... Where's the problem ? ð
But seriously folks, I didn't get as thunk as some pimple dought I thid... ðĪðĪŊðĪŦ
All I had was 3 tinnies, which won't hurt anybody (unless some utter â ïļðĐðâ ïļâ ïļâ ïļ hits you with hard thrown, well aimed full ones !) Anyhoo... onwards and whereverways folks ! Ain't got as big a list of fings to do today cos I did a fair bit more on it last night and had a dang good idea on how to leave the lowered bit (water round the pier) exactly where it is, but still reclaim it as land !
Explanation of that one (mit piccys) shortly !
Regards to All
OB of back in an hour or two ð
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Post by WardWorks on May 9, 2020 19:24:05 GMT -6
Ok back mit piccys as promised ð
In no set order, the point from the former platform road has been replaced by this diabolical setup
Tis a double slip, (same as the one below it), 3 roads of which replace the point removed yesterday, the 4th road leads to the point at top right, which gives me 2 extra sidings to play with. Slips are useful because they act as a crossover (across the diagonals), or a slip (top left to top right, lower left to lower right), they're actually two points overlaid atop each other and amalgamated into one complicated bit of jiggery-pokery, which is (funnily enough), dead easy to wire... ð
The intended sidings off the point at top right in the photo above should look like this (only placed into rough position at present) the siding on the former quayside will terminate where the others do (or will, once I've lengthened the "shorty") ð
Up the other end, the 22.5 in (4th radius) "corner" has been obliterated thoroughly, replaced with a curve of mainly 3ft radius (it was tweaked tighter in places, but nothing tighter than 30ins), trains thus now "come round" gently, rather than fall off trying to ð
3ft is the standard turnout radius of the points as it happens. Also can be seen the loco of a train waiting to come onto the layout via the second prototype "cassette", 3 pieces of 9mm ply (same as the baseboard tops), glued and nailed together, with a piece of track hot glued up the middle. Its only attached to the layout electrically, via wires to nails atop the cassette and to the layout via wires terminated with alligator clips. Must make some more cassettes, want to change trains ? Simply swap cassettes - track alignment is by eye only ðĪ
Full 4ft length of the cassette can be seen above, plus what became of the first prototype cassette, its screwed to the front of the baseboard, in use to hold wagons for a second train, along with a re-railer, which makes it easy to get trains onto the rails in the cassette. I ain't going to continue with cassettes for off layout storage, so I can get by with the one I have now, it'll be taken out of service in due course, having done its job well enough for my purposes ð
Now then, the reclamation of land at the former quay end of the layout, which currently looketh like this.....
Turned out to be dead easy once I'd had a lil thunk about it, was going to paint the bit below the grey cribbing in a murky browny green and run a couple of layers of high gloss varnish over it, before adding various rusty objects etc: along the cribbing... Not any more ! Fill all screw holes etc: sand then undercoat in a dark grey colour, before painting it up as a road (bit along the front of the cribbing could very well become a car park ! Run a chain link fence around the raised bit to denote Railway Property and to keep the "heathens" out and tis dun - dead easy wasn't it - Really glad I thunk of that one ! ðĪŊð
Anyhoo, that's what's to come, back to getting on with it !
Regards
OB of gittin on wiv fings ð
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Post by WardWorks on May 9, 2020 22:36:00 GMT -6
Final track modification - Promise ! ðē
It suddenly occurred to moi that siding 3 (the "shorty" could be lengthened to match the former platform, loop and siding 4 on the former end of the pier... whilst that was happening, a lil' idea struck as to how another siding could be gained (the more the merrier folks ! ð Procedure as follows :-
A certain length was carefully marked out, then its rails were cut and trackpins pulled between the cuts, dumped isopropyl into the ballast between the cuts. Having heard the electric jug cut off after boiling, I zapped out into the kitchen and made myself a cuppa and (carefully !) walked back in carrying a hot cuppa. Put the cuppa down safely (about 30-45 seconds for the lot), picked up the palette knife and working it under the sleepers, lifted the track out in one piece, then removed the ballast, leaving the area looking as below...
Then I dropped in a medium (3ft) radius point, patted myself on the back for nice cutting and stopped to have my lunch... will wire it in and drop a new siding in between the other two before close of play tonight ð
Regards to All
OB of Alldun Andusted ð
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Post by JCON on May 9, 2020 23:39:07 GMT -6
Nice work brother!!!
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Post by WardWorks on May 10, 2020 1:32:45 GMT -6
Cheers Boss !
Decided to go for a walk, (cramps in both legs ðē ), when walking, discovered my eyes weren't focussing too well at any real distance (been faffing round with soldering irons, rails and rail joiners as well as getting point actuator wires into the hole in the middle of point tiebars and other close range focus stuff all weekend) ðĪ....
Eventually, after about 45 minutes, my sight came good at distances of over 6-8 inches, by which time evening was drawing in and it was rather cool around the kneecaps out there, so I returned home and crashed in front of the TV in totally knackered style. I'll sort out the wiring and the point actuation on the newly inserted point tomorrow, too pooped to pop atmo and could care less frankly ! ð
Regards
OB of Nearlee Dunnit ð
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on May 10, 2020 6:35:29 GMT -6
A well deserved rest.
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Post by ogrejohn on May 10, 2020 9:19:06 GMT -6
OMG not Daleks! They must be stopped! Exterminate!
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Post by Dukemaddog on May 10, 2020 16:00:55 GMT -6
OMG not Daleks! They must be stopped! Exterminate!
LOL! I'd love to have me some 1/72 scale Daleks! Of course, never gonna happen but they would be fun to have around.
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Post by WardWorks on May 10, 2020 19:08:10 GMT -6
Cheers folks ð
I knew I probably shouldn't have mentioned the Daleks ! ð
It just coincidentally happened that I'd run across a small box, (the contents of which I didn't remember).. those dang things were in it, along with the Elephant of Annoyance (a somewhat mythical creature, which only ever shows up unexpectedly and which disappears once it knows its been spotted (used to walk along the treetops on Thortytt Wood, til somebody spotted it, but it had usually disappeared by the time they drew their parant's attention to where it had been ! ð) We'd deny it all of course (hadn't seen it, had we ? ð)
Both the Elephant and the Daleks used to hitch rides in various wagons from time to time, just to get from one end of the layout to the other, Daleks used to appear on flat building roofs from time to time as well ("best dang Pigeon control we ever had !")... Occasionally too, a Dalek could be seen riding on the enclosed back "verandah" of a brake van, just one journey, up or down the layout, when I or one of the other operators had the time to winkle the lil' booger in there ! ð
Fun times indeed ! ð Ah well... Its a rather nice, warm day outside today, cobalt blue skies everywhere and not a breath of breeze - can't be bothered staying inside at the present - 'scuse moi, I've got a date with a chair and a good book in the sun... ðĪŦð...
Regards to All
OB of being totally lazy ð
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