Can I just start off by saying that although it may seem like this work has been moving quickly, nothing could be further from the truth. 0-4-4-0T and I have only really had the chance to catchup during the planned monthly meetings in Lower Hutt, so most of the work documented here has only really happened since the Palmy show...whenever that was.
So hopefully todays post will take us up to where things sit currently and you can then marvel at the pace that things normally happen at around here.
This pic arrived in my inbox last weekend:
As can be seen from this picture from Backward Engineering in Karori ("Where the past is being made today!") things are now focussing on the gubbins needed to make things work.
(Hilariously enough, my iphone autocorrected "control gubbins" to "control gibbons"....which probably isnt far from the truth!)
Anyway, here is the written report from 0-4-4-0T:
"The trackwork for Waihao Forks has been glued to some 10mm foamboard. Head Druff says this dampens the amount of track noise. Slots have been cut in it to take curtain wire which takes curved routes to the switches. Music wire just under 1mm thick runs inside the curtain wire from the point blades to the switches. Some 5mm foamboard in the slots holds up the curtain wire next to the point blades.
The music wire is bent through a right angle to go through the end of the moving sleeper that the point blades are attached to. Having the track on 10mm foamboard rather than 5mm board means Am_Fet will be able to shape the ground level in the area surrounding the yard to levels lower than the trackwork when required. Otherwise the ground surface of the whole module would look dead flat and unreal.
Next job is to attach the music wires to the switches - to be shown in a future post. After that, the electrical wiring can go in underneath."
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