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I'm Bob Hughes. The site follows the progress of various railway modeling projects and layouts but, as you'll see from the blog entries, my main interest lies with O scale narrow gauge modeling. My model railway interests are varied, tending more towards narrow gauge in the larger scales, and usually in limited spaces but the FCPyF has been rebuilt as a single large layout instead of a..
Playing Trains
3h ago
The timetable for April’s operating session was amended yesterday with doodlebug 26 working trains 3 and 4. This gives the operator at San Fernandez more to do because No.26 will need to be turned and run round its train on ..read more
Playing Trains
3h ago
I spent some time clearing the flangeways in Grande loco shed this morning, mainly on track 6 but they all needed doing. The shed area now works a lot better than it did. I then had a look at Sentinel ..read more
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2d ago
Derrotado is will lose the through train to/from Grande for the next operating session. The low level micro layout can still be run independently using a combination of conventional and puppet rod powered trains. As the branch terminus has lost ..read more
Playing Trains
2d ago
Two of the coaches used for the international tourist trains have been replaced. The train shown above has Kadee couplers throughout. Drawn from the FCPyF’s “Welsh” stock, the coaches shown below have the adaptability of dual couplers. In the second ..read more
Playing Trains
5d ago
I reported yesterday that the turntable at Derrotado hade been taken out of use, it doesn’t take long for nature to invade abandoned spaces in Sierra Oculta! A short freight turned up this morning with the “Derrotado Shoving Platform” leading ..read more
Playing Trains
5d ago
Trials with various locos during the latter half of this week have mainly been disappointing, some were not up to the job. Some were but didn’t look the part and one, which was not on the initial list of candidates ..read more
Playing Trains
1w ago
I had a guest operator present for the FCPyF’s monthly operating session yesterday. The track and motive power wheels had been cleaned on Monday, which helped reliability, but there was still some finger-prodding needed. My guest did not come empty ..read more
Playing Trains
1w ago
Here are two facts you probably didn’t know that you didn’t know. Firstly, an old style Tri-ang split axle wheel moulding is a push fit on a piece of wire coat hanger. Stunning news, eh? Secondly, if you file the ..read more
Playing Trains
1w ago
I do not model standard gauge trains very often these days but I am inspired by the photo above, posted on the NGRM forum by Les Conn, and more images of the same loco from his Flickr page. I have ..read more
Playing Trains
1w ago
I went into the history of San Fernandez Veinte Veinte on Tuesday and mentioned the city’s other two stations briefly. There is another, considerably older, San Fernandez layout though. It started life as a shunting puzzle using a double track ..read more