The Turntable Father's Day issue 2022

Newsletter of the

PORT ELIZABETH MODEL RAILROAD CLUB Every gauge welcome!

Special Father’s Day issue June 2022

Sandstone in autumn

IN THIS ISSUE: PEMRC Calendar Club Library

Committee

3D Printing

Our Club House

Father’s Day Offers

MIBA Product News 2022

Model Railway helps Network Rail

Visualising Layout Plans

Cheakamus Canyon Layout

Father's Day

PEMRC Layout Visit

PEMRC Meetings/Workshops

PEMLS Event

Father's Day

PEMRC CALENDAR Date 18

Time

June

Detail PEMRC layout visit at:

9:00

2022 25

June

Mike Parsons, 18 Mowbray St Newton Park 9:00

Workshop at Mike van Zyl

2022 Sun

July

3

2022

9

July

13 Lionel Rd, Walmer Downs PEMLS Public running day

9 - 13

P E Model Locomotive Society Londt Park, Sunridge Park PEMRC visit at:

9:00

2022 23

July

Mike Parsons, 18 Mowbray St Newton Park

2022 30

July

PEMRC layout visit at:

14:30

Mike Smout, 5 Cheshire Village, Gomery Ave. Summerstrand 9:00

2022 Sun

Aug

7

2022

13

13 Lionel Rd, Walmer Downs 9 - 13

Aug

9:00

Aug

PEMLS Public running day P E Model Locomotive Society Londt Park, Sunridge Park

2022 20

Workshop at Mike van Zyl

PEMRC visit at: Mike Parsons, 18 Mowbray St Newton Park

tba

PEMRC layout visit at:

2022 27

Aug

tba 9:00

2022

Workshop at Mike van Zyl 13 Lionel Rd, Walmer Downs

COMMITTEE 2022: Chairman: Mike Smout

ma.smout@mweb.co.za

082 801 1347

Treasurer: Attie Terblanche

terblalc@telkomsa.net

082 532 3670

Clubhouse: JP Kruger

juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

082 321 2233

Editor:

pemrailroadclub@gmail.com

082 739 7679

Workshop’ & Shop: Mike van Zyl

carpencab@gmail.com

073 374 3280

Layout visits: Graham Chapman

chapman22@telkomsa.net

072 103 4625

Library:

Roel van Oudheusden

Pierre van Loggerenberg pierrevanloggerenberg3@gmail.com

084 802 3831

Subscriptions for 2022 are R500 p.a. for full membership and R100 p.a. for Country members.

EFT is preferred, but the Treasurer may accept cash.

Bank account: FNB Walmer Park, branch code 211417, Account no. 62386122057

OUR CLUB HOUSE A precondition of the authorities was that the current PEMLS public ablutions at Londt Park are expanded.

We are pleased to

report

work

that

in

respect

this has

started.

A few of us assisted Mike Smout

with

his

portable

demonstration layout during the recent public running day of the PEMLS. It generated quite a lot of interest and questions the public.

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Make Father’s Day special with Hornby Father’s Day is on the horizon, which means it is time to present Dad with a little something special!

Do not fret though as Hornby is here to help and after careful consideration we have put together a selection of our top picks for Father’s Day. Treat him to something special this Father’s Day...

Dream trains No shipping costs for combined orders of R2000 or more.

Shop online and fill your cart, even if less than R2000, then

contact PEMRC Mike van Zyl, to combine your order with fellow club members and all will save.

Go and explore in the Club Library, for reading, viewing, how to and inspiration!

Books, magazines, manual etc. are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1OFewVfzrfKekPSV-oVSuFDQRIZihP_Z9

Videos are at 3 collection addresses due to capacity constraints:

Collection1:

Collection 2:

Collection 3:

There is no space to list everything here. Save to say that you will not be bored on any day.

There is also a new season 6 of World’s Most Scenic Railways, the Welsh Highland Railway, etc.

3D PRINTING In the July and August 2021 editions we reprinted articles on this subject from Railway Modeller covering both filament and resin printing. Since then we have added a number of video tutorials by Luke Towan and Kathy Millat to our library.

Now enter our newest member, Steven Mitchell: Steven has his own 3D orinter and has been able to show us a few remarkable

examples

of

what he has already been able to produce. He started to add clerestory roofs and ‘glass’ panes to the Lima Junior coaches models as well as realistic cylinders, vacuum pipes etc. But his pride is “Little Bess” (the real one is at Sandstone). But in his own words: ”I started the 3D printing hobby because I wanted unique models which I knew weren't available, such as the case with Little Bes. I have since dabbled with bogies, figurines and other small odds and ends to test the limits of the 3D printing potential.

I'd be happy to get into more detail about it if you want something for the next newsletter, I document most of my projects reasonably well, and have lots of photographs from the various stages.

I also take requests from other modellers, as the ultimate goal is to advance the hobby of model engineering.

I am currently supplying 2 versions of vacuum hoses to a friend in Cape Town, and I've seen these hoses on a few production locos supplied by the mainstream builders. All I need is a reasonably square side view, front view and top view of the object with basic dimensions, and a few photos of the real one for the detailed fill-in's. A design can take anywhere between a day to 2 weeks depending on complexity, and there's always

a degree of R&D (the first print is rarely of acceptable quality) but as long as my consumables and expenses are covered, I'm happy to assist.”

This annual overview by MIBA of all the new products by all the model railway manufacturers (many of them are small scale which we don’t see in SA) is now available in the Club online library.

The link is embedded in the image above. It used to cover the annual Nurnberg Toy Fair which now has not happened for 2 years now due to Covid. Don’t let the German text bother you; it is a very visual publication.

You can always ask for translation from me, Frank or Mr Google Translate. Here is a peek inside:

Mini World Models Shop online and use this

special coupon to claim your unique

PEMRC

member

MODEL RAILWAY DELIVERED TO NETWORK RAIL PROMOTES SAFETY Basingstoke Model Railway Club has handed over a community safety layout to the Network Rail Community Safety Manager Wessex Route – Marcia Burnet at Network Rail's Basingstoke Rail Operating Centre (ROC).

The layout was designed to highlight dangers associated with railways specifically for school children, youth groups and Scouts/Guide associations. The model is expected to tour schools, clubs and communities in the Wessex Region as part of Network Rail's safety campaigns led by Marcia Burnett and her team.

Constructed to a modular design, the layout features two lines, each with a third rail, station scene, level crossing, foot crossing and landscaped features, all incorporating typical network rail scenics and equipment, with figures depicted in 'at-risk' or in dangerous scenarios. The level crossing has sound, working lights and barriers and is sequenced correctly in line with current operational standards.

Marcia Burnet said, "I gave the level crossing a test run in the office and it got a lot on interest! It's safely stored away from the 'big kids' so that children get a chance to see it in action!

Thank you all – it is perfect in every way."

Pictured in the handover from left to right: Adam Neale, Peter Thorpe, B&NHMRS

Ian

Morgan

Chairman,

and Robin

Gilchrist. Missing from the image are

Rob

Score

and

John

Smerdon who also helped with the layout build.

To find out more about the Basingstoke & North Hants Model Railway Society, visit its website: https://www.basingstokemrs.org/

VISUALISING LAYOUT PLANS Not all of us can look at a drawing ad then immediately visualise what the end result will look like. Nowadays there are various software programs to help you do that ad give you a real 3D feel long before the building starts.

The book “Anlagen – Vorbilder” by Michael Meinhold draws on the expertise of model railway illustrators such as Ivo Cordes and layouts designed by Thomas Siepmann. Extensive research is done on the chosen real life track on which their layout designs are based.

The first example shows 1. the layout plan including 2. the hidden tracks of the lower level and finally the 3D visualisation.

The order is changed in the second example in order to render a double page view of the 3D vision.

CROSSING THE HEX MOUNTAINS. At Tweefontein in the moonlight the little white tents shine, And a cry comes out of the darkness from those who guard the line; The panting heart of the engine pulsed through the resting cars, And beyond are the quiet mountains, and above are the quiet stars.

Sinister rise the mountains, jagged and bleak and bare, Cloven and rent and fissured by fire and torrent there; But the moon is a tender lady that loves not sights like these And in her spell transfigured, all things must soothe and please.

Far on the veldt behind us shone the steel-drawn parallels, And beneath was the famished river led by the famished wells, And behind the shuttered windows, and beneath the hooded light, Folk in the train were sleeping through all the wondrous night.

But I was out on the platform waiting the whistle shrill That would break in a lustre of echoes right on the face of the hill; Break on the face of the mountain and lose themselves in the pass, Where the rails are like threads of silver, and the boulders smooth as glass.

Forth with the grinding of couplings, the hissing and snorting of steam, Till the rails spun out behind her like spider-threads agleam, Till she roared at the foot of the mountain, and brawled through the echoing glen, Roaring, rocking, and ringing out her pagan of conquering men.

Right to the edge of a boulder, ominous, big, and black; Plucking our hearts to our parching throats with the open track; Then forth like a driving piston straight from its irons heath, Till the wind stormed down on our faces, and we could not see nor breathe.

Looping, climbing, and falling, panting and swooping she sped, Like a snake at the foot of the mountain, with her great white lamp ahead; Shouldering the heavy gradients, heedless of breathing spells, And racing away like a maddened steed down the sloping parallels.

Then out of De Doorns she thundered, and over the starved Karoo, Dwindling the hills behind her, farther and farther she flew; And I know not which to praise the more—these moon-shot hills of God, Or the genius of the men who planned and made the glorious road.

John Runcie.