Hello Halo
Not a Beatles’ lyric but welcoming the ‘halo’ or fascia top on Cwmcarno.
The Two Towers
No, we’re not dragging you off to Middle Earth, but showing a comparison between two water towers, both intended to portray Brecon and Merthyr prototypes. On the left is a printed resin one for Cwmcarno and on the right, the example on Llanastr, which is made up from individually carved plasticard stones (which took yonks to make).
The Newport – Brecon service was either two or three coaches, more often three. The two seen here fit into the short Cwm Carno platform better.
Remember when beer was 75p a pint?
That’s what a pint cost when Llanastr was first exhibited. LBH has dragged it out again in anticipation of its trip to Larkrail next week.
In the meantime work progressed on Cwmcarno, landscaping and building the mount for its lighting ‘halo’.
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Too – hot
Monday and it was warm but not yet unpleasant. On Tuesday the workroom was bearable and the layout room hot. That day Wagonman brought along the current projects, both the result of progress outside in the sun.
By Friday the workroom was really hot, as was the layout room. Nevertheless, Luke was able to get some terra-forming done on Cwm Carno
Two
Just two at the club tonight, Luke and LBH, and Cwmcarno was the priority Luke continued to test stock and fettle track and fiddle yards and LBH did a bit on the Glan Carno Arms.
More testing
A quietish Tuesday evening but quite productive.
Testing times
With Cwmcarno’s visit to Scaleforum approaching track and stock is going through as testing my sequence.
Here we see Rob F’s Western successfully traversing all the track the layout, except under the screens where it is out of gauge anyway.
All hands to the pumps
With the weeks slipping away before Cwmcarno is due to go to Scaleforum and the space now being available to erect it fully following the clear-outs most of this evening’s efforts.
Mr C was laying in the track from the colliery sidings into the fiddle yard.
Luke’s work resulted in the fist running from the layout onto a cassette and back out.
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09 June
Monday was another mucking out day with more stuff taken to the tip. This week was more small stuff with lots of drawers being sorted and re-labelled.
Tuesday involved a lot of shifting layouts around to allow ABB and Cwmcarno to both be erected.
So Cc now has all fiddle yards in place and the latest constructions tried in situ. Note the obligatory mug of tea.
Opening the ‘signal box’ reveals the signal options created by Andrew N. The starter signal is either very early with only one colour light, or early with two colours, or later somersault type or finally GWR standard. The ground signals are rotating (out of focus) or GW.
Call to arms
Friday night and one’s thoughts run to the local. In this case the Glan Carno Arms, which is starting to take shape before it finds its way to Cwmcarno.
Elsewhere TAFKATYS was breathing life into some of Robert H’s locos, Luke and MrC were fettling a couple of locos and our Wizard was bringing Usk to a conclusion.
Trackwork continues on Cwmcarno colliery with point blades fitted and replacement track down to the exchange sidings.
Also a signal box has been started and tried in place. The rather delicate stairs will have to wait for the ground to be made up before appearing.
