Last Wednesday we had the first Autumn meeting of the Cardi-Bach Society in the Heritage Museum at Login. A dozen members attending, and good to see Sue and Huw Jones, as they are not always able to attend.
Phil from Tan-Y-Bwlch was there, and has pledged to give a talk on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway at our November meeting. The October get-together will be a film and slide night, showing the C-B archive films that we have, plus assorted railway themed movies.
That will be on Tuesday October the first.
Excellent pizzas and garlic bread brought out to us by Dawn, Peter's wife.
On to Chuffers...
We met here at Llechryd this afternoon instead of an evening session, to enable us to take advantage of daylight, as we wanted to crack on with laying track for the new 7mm Narrow Gauge. With the nights drawing in it gets a bit dark in the conservatory.
But first a bit of show-and-tell!
Colin has been busy with construction of his showmans steam engine. Here is the body complete with ancillaries:
(20p coin for comparison)
The brass cylinder on the front is the 110 volt generator that the steam engine drives to provide power for the fairground attractions.
Patrick brought along a garden shed and cold frame that his son Daniel had made from coffee stirrers in 7mm scale for the new layout:
Many thanks to Daniel - can we persuade him to carry on?
On to the purpose of the Duffers meeting here. Colin and Pat, the Gandy Dancers of old set to and laid track, while I sort of helped on the periphery...
Below is a shot of work in progress:
We knocked off at 4:30 for coffee and cake, and watched a couple of videos about the Ffestiniog railway, then called it a day.
Convening here again next Tuesday to complete the track laying.
Meanwhile I cleared the decks (a little bit) and did a trial run with a loco and carriage.
Success!!
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