Well the Exeter show has been and gone, the only “proper” exhibition outing in 2009 (we hope to have more for 2010 to tell you about soon!) – although we are considering doing another “open house” later in the year to keep our hand in – i’m interested in feedback on that, anyone want to come play trains for the weekend??
Here’s a quick vid to give an overview of the setup we used, for the first time we were able to have the Freemo-esque modules attached to form a decent length branch line at the show which was a nice way of adding a section of layout with a slower pace than the big mainline action.
Modules used were Dale Yard, Oakdale and two curves created and owned by Neil Rogers and Dale Creek created and owned by Liam Rogers.
Don’t forget that the modules on their own without the main RS Tower layout will be appearing at the Shaftesbury & Gillingham show in Gillingham (Dorset) this weekend.
We had a few reliability issues (the biggest being that the number of loco’s, particularly sound-equipped ones, was drawing more power than the DCC base unit and Booster could handle, meaning it kept shutting down) on the Saturday, but we’d corrected that issue by Sunday and we were pleased with the quality of running by the end of the show.
The car cards/waybill info all seemed to work okay once we’d ironed out a few kinks in the trainplan and got the cars moving in the right direction, again by Sunday it was working well and there was a lot of interest in it.
Filed under: Layout images/video, Shows, modules
