Posted on March 29, 2009 by Martyn Read
Saturday 23rd/Sunday 24th May (the weekend before we attend Exeter show) we will be holding an open-house at Hittisleigh village hall – Hittisleigh is located just a short distance from the A30, part way between Exeter and Okehampton:
Click here for the location on Google Maps – Be aware there is no credible public transport to this location due to it’s rural nature.
The venue will be open from 10.00AM until 4.30PM (or maybe even longer if we’re having fun!)
Admission is FREE! But donations to the upkeep of the hall are welcome.
The local village ladies will be selling tea’s, coffee’s and cakes – and if you’re dragging along a partner who isn’t into trains then there is a craft display a short walk to the North at the village church.
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by Martyn Read
With RS Tower soaking up over 500 freightcars on average at a show, and with us running multiple era’s we’re always adding to the fleet, both to add the kind of unending variety that the real railroad offers, to tailor the fleet to the industries on the layout and to gradually upgrade the look and detail of the cars that appear.
First up, Neil Rogers has added some of the new Athearn “beer can” tanks, these are all-new models with some nice fine detail, and excellent little cars for space starved layouts! Click on the pic for larger images…
Next up we have a couple of new freightcars in my fleet….
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Posted on February 13, 2009 by Martyn Read
Quick update for the day – the Exhibitions page has been updated with details of the Exeter show in late May, and Neil’s Oakdale modules going to the Gillingham show in June.
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by Martyn Read
We’ve just started working on grade crossing protection and signalling – images of the progress so far can be found on the fotopic site:
http://modelrailpics.fotopic.net/c735837.html
Neil Rogers is also working hard on his first two 45 degree curve modules – pics can be found at his fotopic site here: http://neil-rogers.fotopic.net/c1644146.html
Enjoy!
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by Martyn Read
I figured that I’d better do a pre-Christmas update, as i’ve yet again been patently rubbish at writing these!
So – here we go:
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Posted on September 15, 2008 by Martyn Read
Well, the Andover show went pretty well, very few problems with the layout and it seemed very well received – many thanks to our extra operators for the weekend as well, you were a great help!
Speaking of the extra operators, Gareth shot some photo’s at the end of play on Sunday and he’s gradually getting some of them processed and online. Well worth a look!
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Posted on August 24, 2008 by Martyn Read
Wisconsin & Southern and CP power at RS Tower
Neil Rogers also has some photo’s on his site here.
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by Martyn Read
So, if you’ve been paying attention to this infrequently updated blog you’ll have noticed the quick youtube bits I uploaded from the Sunday at Exeter (if you haven’t been paying attention, scroll back through the last few posts to catch up!) and you’ll have noticed one of them caught a minor derailment as the train passed.
This entry is really about “the boring stuff”, the everyday fiddling with the basics of the layout to (attempt to) get boringly reliable running. I tend to sit in the camp where ideally we should never have to think about the operation of points, motors or electrics once we have them installed.
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Posted on June 6, 2008 by Martyn Read
Here’s another of our youtube clips, a SOO SD40-2 leads a CP Rail SD40-2 (in an SD45 carbody) north onto the street running with a unit steel coil train. Enjoy!
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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Martyn Read
An interesting post from the Milepost 15 blog showing a pre-production Alco high-hood switcher from Atlas! Neat, would make a superb grain silo switcher.
The link is here, it’s worth looking back through the other posts as well, the Railflyer EMD parts look to be an intriguing way of building a loco.
http://milepost15.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/new-englandnortheast-prototype-modelers-meet-2008-day-1/
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RS Tower - Progress of an exhibition layout. 