Turntable Crank

November is always a slow month for the trains in our house. It’s getting close to Christmas, and for the past eleven years, I’ve given photobooks that summarize the past year of the kids’ lives to all our family. I spend most of the month, therefore, editing and curating photos. Anyway, this morning, while the […]

Turntable details completed

Thanks to my masking tape plan, it didn’t take too long to get the walkways back onto the turntable. The masking tape kept the boards in order so all I had to do when I was ready to re-install them was peel them off the masking tape one at a time, scrape and sand off […]

A New Theme?

I’m trying out a new WordPress Theme. Somehow I think I should be able to make a big rich homepage, encouraging readers to dig into some featured articles. So far I haven’t got it tuned quite the way I would like; what do you think so far?

On its wheels

I must admit I felt some trepidation when I went to add the wheel assemblies to the turntable this evening. They were inherently unstable, and I couldn’t think of a way to clamp them so the glue would have time to dry. I also haven’t come up with a way to pin them, which I […]

Ring rail replaced

I always find it interesting how much quicker it is to redo something than to do it the first time. So it is that it took only two evenings (about three hours) to remove the first ring rail and replace it. Of course, I reused all the parts. I scraped the ties down and pulled […]