Saying hello - Iscatalbahn - a work in progress

Saying hello with my work in progress, although whenever I see images from the Linz Gadstadt line I wonder if I should give it all up.

Mixture of new and mostly second hand and what I like, so it's set in that corner where Austria / Switzerland / Germany meet.
Not sure about the title yet although Thomasdorf (given I live in St Thomas) is going to be one of the stations.
And trying to squeeze a quart out of a pint in view of the small garden size.

Blog at http://patiorails.blogspot.com/ - mixture of my learning curve and discovery, clips of purchases and odd real railway bits of interest.
Probably old hat to most of you.

For all sorts of reasons I can't see any (semi) permanent track going down until Spring 2012 although I think we are back to the original plan of going around the garden rather than being confined to the patio.

Chris

Chris, a very warm welcome.

A nice blog, showing a very interesting line in prospect! Just keep posting pics of whatever you get up to

!!!!!yes welcome to the Forum. any particular reason for the name Iscatalbahn?
mikey

Welcome Chris. Everyone has to start somewhere and it's always a priviledge to be in at the start of someone's project.

You could have just set your railway in a little corner where France meets Switzerland too...

Exeter St Thomas is a fine place that I remember from my youth visiting relatives who lived not far from the station.

Hello Chris! Welcome!
I love that grey resprayed Stainz! Keep us posted on your work on the railway.

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome.

Last Sunday was good weather so following the example of someone I saw here, I put some track down to see how it would look. This weekend has been much more rainy. Update the blog - some train stuff, some Zillertal related.

The Grey Stainz isn't mine: it came second hand from Back to Bay 6 and will utlimately get the paint scrubbed off it again and a respray, although I have now got another second hand stainz to play around with as well.

If there was more LGB French stuff (and available second hand at reasonable prices) then I could easily have gone for France/Switzerland after a trip on the Chemins de fer de Provence. However, Germany/Austria/Switzerland it is.

Where we are in St Thomas, then we can sometimes hear the Steam excursions toot-toot as they approach St Thomas Station, or the chuff-chuff as the work up steam coming out of St David's where they sometimes re-coal and re-water.

Couple of other postings now about sounds in the Tips/Tricks and periphal projects if anyone would like to throw their two-pence in.

Go for it Chris.
The grey Stainz looks very good indeed.

Iscatalbahn

Inspired by the Steyrtalbahn, Murtalbahn and Zillertal. Tal (as I'm sure you all know) is valley in German, often linked with a river. The old Celtic name for the Exe is Isca and Isca has become linked with Exeter as a name, although Isca is only the generic name for river. Hence Iscatalbahn (which I think sounds better than Exetalbahn).

Blog - Patio rails

Before this forum disappears into the ether, (not just yet. admin...) then as a way of saying thanks for the inspiration and wisdom found within its pages - which as a beginner I will miss, especially as I am now embarking on the next phase then I thought I would post an update to remind people of progress on the Iscatalbahn.

The blog - http://patiorails.blogspot.com/ - continues with its irregular updates.

The piece de resistance so far is the first day run round with the (imitation steam) - its on the blog but the direct video is also here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG7yt8vd9-A

So long and thanks for all the info...

Chris

Plans for the future -
~The interconnected double oval circuit with stations and sidings....
~Level off the track so the decking can be on the bits of concrete - this is going to mean concrete between the different sections.
~convert an Engineers box car - bit of cut and shut and then out with the spray can (as someone said elsewhere, the first cut is always the hardest but I've a couple of cheapies of ebay to play with),
~Glaze the windows and put seats (and engineer) into a PIKO Caboose. The open view in through the cupola just screams "toy/model" at the moment.
~Double head a train - we know have the technology - 2X chipped Stainz, 1x handcontroller and magic box of tricks.
~Have enough track and options down so that multiple people can enjoy (i.e. play with the locos) the railway at the same time.
~Make my first piece of rolling stock - I've got an IP Engineering, Ezee cut visitors wagon cut to represent transport for the miners or forestry workers to the appropriate part of the layout.
~And possibly to show why I'm here - my best Ebay purchase to date (and the most expensive) is the LGB Red Corpet Louvet (yet to be chipped and given smoke...) alhtough I have a real soft spot for the little blue Austrian 4 wheel dining car.

Hi Thanks for the update i have noted your Blogspot page

Hi, nice blogspot. Like the way that you update regularly. This might be a good idea for kandnwlr on Youtube, i.e. "me".