The biggest development on the Moel Rhos in the past few years has been the acquisition by the railway’s workshops of its first 3D printer.
Continue reading A start in 3D printingAuthor: Simon Wood
Looking back at lockdown virtual meet-ups
Back in 2020 lockdown came just in time to disrupt our (the South West Wales 16mm Area Group) programme of monthly meet-ups. But with everybody stuck at home – and in their gardens – what else was there to do but work and play trains? Our solution was to keep going with the monthly meet-ups, but to do them online…
Continue reading Looking back at lockdown virtual meet-upsMoel Rhos in the Fediverse
Just a little bit of housekeeping for those who follow this blog via social media. I’m dropping X/Twitter but you can follow us in the Fediverse (for example on Mastodon) now.
Continue reading Moel Rhos in the FediverseQuick 5 year update
I’m going to try to get back to blogging on here with a new approach.
Apart from the stock boxes post last August (which had actually be sitting in drafts for almost three years) I haven’t posted on here since my last update on Konrad’s cab in August 2018. And while I haven’t actually done much on the cab since then (though I did fit R/C and a whistle) I’ve made lots of progress in other areas, and this is part of the problem: I want to thoroughly document it all chronologically. But I’m never going to get round to doing that, so here’s the new plan…
Continue reading Quick 5 year updateStock Boxes from The Works
When I got my new stock boxes out at a (late 2019) garden railway meet, and explained they were from The Works, one of the other members asked me if I’d got the idea from the current* Garden Rail. In fact I hadn’t read it, but it seemed The Works boxes were all the rage, so in case my approach adds anything to that in Garden Rail I thought I’d better blog about it…
Continue reading Stock Boxes from The WorksA Cab for Konrad (3)
Between last autumn and this spring I put together the cab for my Regner Konrad (see my posts on designing, and cutting and beginning assembly of the cab). This post brings progress up to date – there are several finishing touches still needed, and paint – but at the time of writing I have at least been able to run the loco with its reconfigured bodywork. Continue reading A Cab for Konrad (3)
A Cab for Konrad (2)
With a clearer idea of the cab I wanted to build, I started out (under the expert supervision of Mr Tony Bird) cutting pieces from 1mm brass sheet. Continue reading A Cab for Konrad (2)
3rd Tunnel
The next civil engineering project in extending towards the shed was a further tunnel. Continue reading 3rd Tunnel
A Cab for Konrad (1)
It’s been over a year and a half since I last posted on here, on the occasion of acquiring for the Moel Rhos a second steamer, a Regner Konrad. Continue reading A Cab for Konrad (1)
More Steam
Oops. I seem to have bought another live steam locomotive. I really wasn’t intending to. Continue reading More Steam