Area 3 working

[Anonymous]

Although it is only 80 % completed my area 3 is working proper;y after a lot of trouble.

As the track comes out of the pumphouse tunnel, it goes through a left R 3 curve into a 4 % gradient then a right hand set of points (switch) to do with the reversing loop then still on 4 % it goes through a pair of left hand points back to back for the change over to the main loop from the reversing loop. I have had the following problems which seem to be all sorted out now:-

1/ derailments caused by bad camber (see previous subjects)

2/ Stalling, derailing and sticking on the points.

3/ locos unable to climb the gradient and lose traction.

4/ switch motors filling up with quarry fines due to the monsoons.

5/ Wash outs as item 4

6/ soil washing away over Vampires Tunnel as item 4.

7/ My accident where 6 little people were killed.

8/ concrete (cement) assemblies falling apart as the concrete didn't cure properly as it was too hot.

9/ The rear end of my ICE train getting filled with water, and blowing out its decoder chip see item 4 we had 75 mm (3") of rain in an hour or so one night.


Etc etc etc but it is all working 100 % now.


Rgds ian

[Tom The Brat]

Good going.

Pictures! We need pictures!

[Anonymous]

Oh oh.Decoder bang.Irritating and expensive! When am I going to see some pictures of all this?If you're going to e-mail them make them fairly small as I'm still on clockwork dial-up mode.My village telephone exchange is in a field full of sheep.( it really is! )
Are you sure the liitle men died from an accident or did you blow them up.If I remember rightly you were looking for explosives at one stage[:-^]
As an aside,what trouble are you having with your tender?
Troy

[Anonymous]

Om gentlemen I don't know how to post them but i will send them to Troy, I have your email address but i cant find it mate can you please email me and note I have a new email adr [e-mail]. Torby please email me as well and i will copy you as well.

Troy.

I can tell you a different story about a telephone exchange in Paddock (field) of sheep.

Our family propery out at Nyngan NSW is 40,000 acres and was so poor we could only run 8000 sheep, the front gate was 1.5 miles away. We had the local telephone exchange called Widgelands. It had its own building with a corrugated iron skillion roof, as i had many cousins and us boys were regarded as a nuisance we were all put out in the telephone exchange to get rid of us and we were expected to man the exchange. (pretty rough service I can tell you).

Well it was stinking hot as the bush fires had just gone through and we had a lot of trouble with drought it hadn't rained for four years. Well this night it rained it sounded like the world had come to an end for a four year old Ian. But the jubilation at salvation still stays with me today 64 years later To the exten my favourite sound is the sound of rain on a tin roof, at four years of age I had never experienced rain before.

Of course knowing this big tough country, we were flooded out within a few months and the rain turned into a curse.


Regrds ian