Rochelle Intermodal | N Scale Bend Track modular layout http://www.rochelleintermodal.com N Scale Bend Track modular layout Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:58:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Rochelle at Seaboard Southern http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2011/03/02/rochelle-at-seaboard-southern/ http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2011/03/02/rochelle-at-seaboard-southern/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:58:20 +0000 Peter http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2011/03/02/rochelle-at-seaboard-southern/ Just a quick update. Rochelle Intermodal is currently up at my club, the Seaboard Southern in its full 23′ configuration. This is great as it allows me to do some work on it as well as enabling other members to run their locos.

However this is just a temporary home as my wife and I are moving to a new house in about a month with a…wait for it…garage! Great news!

So, more on this later.

]]> http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2011/03/02/rochelle-at-seaboard-southern/feed/ 0 Successful last show for Rochelle Intermodal http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/11/22/successful-last-show-for-rochelle-intermodal/ http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/11/22/successful-last-show-for-rochelle-intermodal/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:23:48 +0000 Peter http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/?p=152 Rochelle Intermodal was at the White House Model Railway Group’s show in Hampton, Middlesex this past weekened, 20th November 2010.  A successful showing and also the last time the layout will be attending a show for a while, probably at least a year.  I’m not sure if I will be putting it back on the exhibition circuit again after that.  I’ll decide on that at the end of 2011.

The reason for this is to get the scenery finished, as well as finishing off the automation and the signalling.  I’m hoping to be in a new house next year with space to be able to put the layout up – at present I can only put 4 boards up, and only temporarily, which makes it quite hard to work on as I have to keep dismantling it each time.

In the meantime, enjoy the videos I took at the White House show – we were running 4 trains on the main, 2 in each direction – ah, the joy of DCC!  We were also switching the Caron Street industrial area, making it a challenge to switch around the mainline trains!  Many thanks to Alan Crooks for all his help setting up, operating and taking down the layout – your help is always appreciated, Alan!

Right, here are the videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LypcKMLg7z0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvlVk5E2gUc

Keep an eye on my website for more updates as I get to work on the scenery work.  Rochelle will be based in the Seaboard Southern clubroom for a while, enabling me to have it set up all the time and also to allow the others a chance to run on it.

]]> http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/11/22/successful-last-show-for-rochelle-intermodal/feed/ 0 Successful show for the Seaboard Southern! http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/09/27/successful-show-for-the-seaboard-southern/ http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/09/27/successful-show-for-the-seaboard-southern/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:43:29 +0000 Peter http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/?p=149 Showing that not even a devastating fire can ruin things, the Seaboard Southern put on a successful show this past weekend in Horsham.  Rochelle Intermodal attended and received much attention – well done to all club members for doing such a great job!  Can’t wait to get the new clubrooms painted and fixed up!

Rochelle has one more show attendance this year, at the White House Model Railway Group show in Hampton on 20th November.  This will be the last show I will be exhibiting at for a while as I haven’t been able to do any work on the layout – not enough room to put it up permanently in my shed, so it has remained boxed up between shows.  I will be trying to finish off the scenery, detailing and weathering and getting the automation finished off.  I’m not sure when (or if) I will be putting it back on the exhibition circuit, but  I will keep this site updated as I progress with the work.

Hopefully a new house next year will allow me to have the layout up permanently as my wife has told me I can have the garage for this use (still to get it in writing!)…so on the search for a suitable house!!

Till the next update…

]]> http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/09/27/successful-show-for-the-seaboard-southern/feed/ 0 Another successful show… http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/06/29/another-successful-show/ http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/06/29/another-successful-show/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:01:29 +0000 Peter http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/?p=140 Rochelle was at the NMRA’s ‘Not the Winter Meet’ at Benson this past weekend (26th June). The layout performed well, with only occasional problems caused by one dodgy loco and a few dodgy operators :-) Many thanks to Pete Blake and Alan Crooks for helping me set up and take layout down, and Alan Crooks & Brian Woolven for helping me operate throughout the day. Thanks guys!

Below are the latest photos taken at the show showing the latest board, Caron Street, with its new backscene. Still plenty of work needed on these boards (weathering and detailing), but they are performing well. One slight adjustment to a point needed on suggestion of Alan to allow more switching flexibility.

Keep an eye on the website for more updates on shows later this year, the first of which will be the Seaboard Southern’s North American Show in October – more details on the Seaboard Southern website.

Till later!

]]> http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/06/29/another-successful-show/feed/ 0 Rochelle Intermodal at Benson “Not The Winter Meet” on 26th June http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/06/08/rochelle-intermodal-at-benson-not-the-winter-meet-on-26th-june/ http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/2010/06/08/rochelle-intermodal-at-benson-not-the-winter-meet-on-26th-june/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:31:42 +0000 Peter http://www.rochelleintermodal.com/?p=138 Remember to come to the Benson meet on 26th June to come to see Rochelle Intermodal (and other great layouts!).  It promises to be a great day out!

Find out more on the NMRA British Region website.

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