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.
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