Watching the big locos ....

Yesterday my friend had a little garden railway meet at his place.. we ran some trains with larger track powered locos including my Bagnall 2-8-2; some pics taken (when I remembered todo so, as I was enjoying watching the trains...)

New buffer stop ... and Train time ...

Replacing a buffer stop,  the old one was plastic and clipped on not too well. A second hand LGB buffer stop rail section I got off Ebay ready to be fitted ...

first though clear off the old cheapo grass mat and give the exposed area a sand down....

A piece of grey carpet tile cut to size for the ballast and the track fixed down with a couple of panel pins...

suitable paint job done, the paint takes ages to dry,

  so .....

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I took advantage of the good weather to run a train for a while...

Train time ....

 A nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon... running a couple of trains...

Sunny aftrenoon running session ...

 Little running session today...

My friend bought round his battery powered diesel (Wifi controlled from a mobile) phone app)

We spent the afternoon watching the Bagnall 2-8-2, going round with longer and longer trains to see when it would not be able to manage any more - the limit was 22 wagons ....

I also ran another of my track powered locos with a shorter train ....

New Connection for the Controller and Test Running

I've had the connection between the controller and the track power setup using using a couple of crocodile clips with the other end being some brass screws.  A bit too fiddly and the brass screws had got a bit tarnished, so I decided on an update -  a hifi speaker connector and socket that I had stashed away,

controller in position and connected up in the control box (an old external letter box) ....

Run testing - hoorah the soldering I had done worked ok and the trains they did a run ... the little speeder

and a first run on the garden layout for the big 2-8-2 Bagnall.

Track cleaning day ...

 Having sprayed the track with some cleaning fluid a couple of days back; out today with the track rubber (attached to a broom handle to save me kneeling) to polish the rail tops....

With the track nice and clean, track powered loco testing done - ready to run a train .... however rain followed by a heavy thunderstorm stopped play .😡..

The Tram Loco gets an outing ....

 Hoorah ! some nice weather today; after some gardening (planting out a few new plants and sorting out some pots)... time to run a train ...

I got the Tram loco out for a run now I'd sorted out easy battery pack access.. running with a short train of 'empties' ...