Category: PECO

Trefach

Photo Craig Tiley/Peco studioA missive from the Ed. rolled in yesterday informing me that photos of the 009 Trefach had been taken and enclosing the above shot. The layout will be appearing later this year in RM as a 3-4 part build similar to the previ…

The return of Half Acre

With the delivery of a small 009 layout to Devon came the return of a previous build. Half Acre was a mess right from the beginning; started during lockdown when the world and his wife were buying track and the factory couldn’t keep up. My initial plan…

Rhiw 2 in RM

…and all back together again. A simple enough job, but one that was possibly overdue. Clearances are tight along the edge , but even with the lengthy Sprinter coaches, all seems well. I did forget to mention this. Rhiw 2 gets six pages in RM thi…

009 dreaming

 Been busy. Actually, been busy slimming down in several different ways much of which is another story. The main thrust has been trying to get Trefach finished on schedule, which hasn’t been easy; a lot of time-hungry walling, fencing and building…

Wyatt slate fencing

 Back through the mists of time; well 1979 to be precise, the iconic Dovey Valley appeared in RM over two issues. One of these contained a method of constructing slate waste slab fencing using plastic sheet. This has been used by 009-ers ever sinc…

Grass at last

 It would have been stupid to think that this was going to be a quick project, but my inability to play the game and therefore not build things at they were intended or to take the easy road has slowed things to a crawl. This has not been improved…

Saturday Ramble: More death and disposal

 One of the more controversial posts here of late has been the Swedish Death Cleaning proposal. Not only has this received a sensible number of hits, but has made me and others consider what we may be doing and in some cases it has generated a bit…

Too much to do?

 I find myself in the position of too much to do at the moment, to the point where I spent near on12 hours standing today working on the 009 project. Bliss some would say, but only from the position of having a choice. There is a 16t mineral on th…