Feldbahnmodule with ship

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Thanks. I now know what a pocket screw hole looks like, that my parents' dining room table had some, and how its builder created them. I also hold Frithjof in an even higher level of awe. -- Russ

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As the harbor area is to be served by both motor vehicles and the light railroad, I had searched the WWW for pictures showing light railway tracks embedded at street level.
Especially since - unlike the Lauenburg prototype - I also want light railroad trucks to load sand from the sand bunker.
The field railway sleepers and rails would certainly be a hindrance to truck operations!

On June 1, I visited the Rammelsberg World Heritage Site in Goslar on the occasion of UNESCO World Heritage Day: click

There I was able to photograph exactly what I had been looking for on the internet and came back with lots of ideas!

There are some great alternatives there! So I will probably experiment a little with replicas between and next to the rails and try to imitate stone, wood, concrete and asphalt.


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Several contact sheets with four pictures each have been summarized, if you want, you can see them here!

So far I have always talked about modules... but strictly speaking, they are segments that can only be assembled in this way and do not offer any standardized transitions to third-party modules!

So I have now started to glue 60mm wide and 5.0mm thick MDF panels to most of the areas on my harbor segments that are used by both the light railroad and vehicles. These were previously drilled with the CNC router for the 0.8mm rail nails and 3.0mm holes for attaching the track gauges.


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No rail plates are fitted here, as they will not be visible underground anyway. In addition to the rail nails, superglue will fix everything in place.


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The sand bunker can be bypassed by the field rail locomotives via the two points on the second and third segments in order to pull the loaded wagons back again.


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On the left, the two small points in the foreground serve the old storage shed and the four-position lock shed.

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The old storage shed is operated via the small Brangsch field turntable. In contrast to the version available here, I could electrify the disk I have installed later.

As things stand at the moment, however, I will be operating these segments with Deltang and its successor micron radio control, so the disk will not be wired.

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[finescalerr]

Outstanding. -- Russ

[Ray Dunakin]

I really like the way this is shaping up!

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A little further progress was made on the segments.

The two front turnouts are mounted on sleepers and should later be freely visible and not be driven over by road vehicles.

The sleepers for the first modules had already been sawn in 2008 from old fruit crates that had survived for many years in a garden shed... Of course, there was still a box with some leftover sleepers.

As already described on March 14, 2008, I also stained these field railroad sleepers for the visible area again with black shoe polish dissolved in isopropyl alcohol.
If the application became too "watery", I simply dipped the small bristle brush into the shoe polish again and rubbed it onto the sleeper.
After the alcohol has dried, a brownish-greyish color remains as the basis for further aging. The blackness of the cream remains in the deeper grain of the thresholds. In any case, I like this color tone quite well to start with, as it already gives a hint of weathered wood.


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I had already pre-drilled 0.8 mm holes for the rail nails on the CNC router for the rails that will be embedded in the road area.
It turned out to be not really practical!
The upper hook of the rail nails could only be pressed into the vertical holes with great difficulty. The hook head bumped against the rail head and had to be turned to the side with small pliers each time, pushed in a little deeper and then turned back again before it reached the rail foot.
The solution was simple! The parallel rail profiles were aligned anyway with the help of the track gauges, which were fixed in the pre-drilled holes with the 3.0 mm screws. Now I drilled angled holes about 5.0 mm deep into the MDF boards on both sides of the rail profiles using a 0.9 mm drill bit. The 9.0mm long rail nails were then positioned in the drilled holes using small pliers and fixed in place with a small square peg and light taps with a hammer. After a visual check, all the nails were additionally secured with a small drop of superglue.
 
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So today I was able to lay the first burnished rails to the engine shed and the old storage shed.

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Before I can burnish the left rail profile, it had to be pre-bent according to the course. At the points where the switch blades touch the outer profiles, I still have to file the corresponding recesses into the rail foot tomorrow.

It's amazing how quickly the segments were covered with all kinds of tools again!

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The tapered rail profiles of the centerpiece are to be cut to size tomorrow using a wood jig (or perhaps Pertinax). The drawing with the correct angle was taken from the template and used to create the milling file.

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It gradually is coming to life. -- Russ