How odd - The blog had 23 hits today from the old colonies across the pond... and I hadn't written anything since a week or more ago.
Ah well. Stranger things happen (like Trump getting elected, but we won't dwell on that)

We met here last Tuesday - Charles and I talked electronics while the other two ripped up some of the track on Crymmych Arms layout, as it was causing de-railments, so to cure it they relaid a new piece of line, and now all is well.
For show-and-tell Pat had brought along a Rail-bus that he made up from a cut-down Kato chassis and a 3D printed body. The paint was still wet, so the pics are a little bit glossy still.

Inside the bus there are passengers and a driver:

He also put together some white metal N guage fire buckets and a lamp oil hut that Pete Towns had kindly donated for Crymmych:

On the layout side of things, the point control panel for the station is now in place with two points so far hooked up to the 'wire-in-tube' operation, and the DPDT switches are also wired up to the points to ensure continuity of power when a loco crosses the points. A problem that has popped up on Teifi Gorge a few times.

Pictures of the top and underneath:

Thats about it for this session. On the real railway front, Emyr, the Chairman of the Cardi-Bach Society gave a talk and a guided walk on the old tunnel on the Clynderwen to Rosebush Railway line. The tunnel has historic significance as it was used as a practise site during WWII for Barnes Wallace's bouncing bomb.
An excellent talk, attended by over 150, and at least half that number took part in the 3 mile trek to the tunnel. Colin and I went along for the craic, and a very enjoyable time it was. Worth repeating!

The Talk, in Maenclochog School hall:

The tunnel entrance:

And inside the tunnel:

That all for this session, meeting at Chas' next week.
Hwyl fawr.

Yet another narrow gauge photo for the heading - this time a Bayer-Garrett simmers gently at Beddgelert on the Welsh Highland Railway, en route to Caernarfon.

Not a week passed yet since the last post, but as I have been doing a bit of work on the Rabbit Warren, I thought I would post a couple of pictures of the progress so far:

Overall picture - bear in mind this is still work-in-progress (and may well stay that way!)

Here is the station roughly in position:

And finally a shot of the gorge with the various bridges:

More sometime in the future...

Shaun.

My word! 2016 just up and gone...
Not a great deal has happened in our little world of Chufferduffering over the past few weeks, so I have let things slide on the blog front I'm afraid (bad grammar there, Sorry)
We had another Cardi-Bach meeting last Tuesday, instead of Chuffers, and it turned out to be a very entertaining meeting. Emyr brought along his computer/projector, and besides some old footage of the last train on the C-B, Emyr had a film of the Puncheston School children acting out the story of the long-gone North Pembrokeshire Railway, that ran from Clynderwen to Fishguard, via Rosebush - all vestige of this line has since disappeared.
On to Chuffer business...
We met here at Llechryd last night, just Pat, Colin and myself, as Charles was tending to a sick animal.
Pat produced a Workmans engine that he had built from one of the Kato tram chassis and a 3D printed body. Shown here test running on Crymmych Arms track:

There is a rather disconcerting wet looking puddle underneath - nothing leaking out, merely dried Araldite holding the track in place! Close up of the Vehicle:

There is a driver inside, but I couldn't get a decent angle to show him in a picture. This is 00 scale, to run on 009, so it will be available for service on the Teifi Gorge. Diesel engines came into being in the 1890's so I think we are justified...

Main part of the evening was spent working on the Crymmych Arms layout, the gandy dancers are shown here adding the siding that ran behing the up platform:

And an overall view of the workshop, with light refreshment available at the recreational end:

Colin is seen here testing the layout for continuity, which seems to be fine, the only problem we are having is the track joints, as we are using a mixture of different brands.
In the background is the Rabbit Warren that I am working on when the mood takes me. It's being developed on the wing, with no specific idea of what it's going to look like!

Close up here of the current state of play:

Sorry once again to our myriad of fans (three at the last count...) for the paucity of updates. I shall try and do better this year.