Goodness me!

After a famine comes a feast - Three posts in a week...
Tuesday Chuffer-Duffers last night. We met here in the garage/workshop and managed to get quite a bit done, making up for the last couple of weeks.
Charles had modified his belt drive mechanism for the Cardigan yard crane, and while Pat and I made some alterations to wiring connections at one end of the Cardigan board, Charles and Colin assembled the crane and its 'works' at the other end.
This is the crane in question:

(Geraint Bowen the yard foreman is keeping an eye out for traffic whilst the testing is under way.)

In the nether regions of the board we have the 'mechanism' - an exquisite example of Charles engineering skills:

And it works!
A momentary switch on the side of the layout allows the crane to turn in either direction at a convincing scale speed thanks to the tiny gearbox attached to the 3 volt motor.
Videoing is beyond me, so to see it operating you will have to wait until our next show...

After pats on the back all round, we went into the workshop and got to work on the Login layout. I had already made a start on the contouring, and given everything a basic coat of dirty green. Rail was measured and cut, wire-in-tube fitted to the points, and Pat and Colin our erstwhile gandy dancers laid track.
Next move is to paint the sleepers and rails, and then lay ballast.
Status quo:

Exhausted after all that strenuous work we repaired to the house for bowls of Cawl (made with Mikes excellent mutton), bread and cheese, and washed down with the usual beverage of choice...

I'll try not to leave it too long unyil the next post!