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Steam from Hornby
Hornby is a household
name and is now famous as the UK brand leader in the field
of Model Railway Trains. The age of steam is probably a
distant memory for many of us, but to relive this bring
live steam railway model engines to your own home.
Bachmanns
latest model railway train set....
Puffing Billy Starter model railway
train set - Includes 0,6,0 Steam locomotive, 2 coal open
wagons, oval track and a controller.
Figures
for your model railway trains...
What
better way to put the finishing touches to your model railway
layout by adding some great little figures to compliment
the beautifully crafted layout and railway engines on display.
Even better providing these model railway figures at minimal
cost makes it all the more pleasing.
Scenery:
Unloading a model railway train..
Though there are plenty of model
figures available to populate railway scenery and layouts,
only in rare instances have they been animated so that they
appear to move. Lack of movement of figures doesn’t
really worry anyone but it is always worth positioning them
in key places on your model railway where you might expect
to see a person in real life scenery.
Getting
the look of the model railway train layout right is a one
of the hardest tasks in a model. Particularly
setting the clearances to platforms, bridges, and the side
of the track for buildings, signal posts, embankments, etc.
To aid this task a simple building gauge can be produced
which gives a minimum setting for everything. It was cut
from a piece of .040" plasticard and is shown in the
diagram below.
In use the gauge give the
correct setting for platforms at the ‘stepped’
side with the platform height and the spacing from the track.
This only applies to straight platforms - extra width must
be allowed for stock clearance on curves. The straight side
gives the minimum distance from the track to any building,
shed, signal post, bridge side or other similar structure.
In practice it also gives a marker for the edge of the ballast
plus drainage and shows where the vegetation should start
from. The total width of the gauge (60mm) is the minimum
height above rail level for any structure which is flat
across the track - flat bridge parapet, signal gantry, etc.
A simple to produce gauge
but one which has proved very useful and effective in helping
to build a model railway which looks true to prototype practice
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