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Coding Cait
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The ticket hall, Cardiff Central train station

#cymru #Cardiff #trains #TrainTravel

Coding Cait
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Have finally finished going through all my follows on the old account, and following people on this account! So now I can properly consider retiring the old one after preserving important things I will want to preserve

Coding Cait
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My favourite carb is onara

Coding Cait
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I think I'm now about 70% of the way through migrating across my follows from my other ("old") Fedi account to this one.

So if you've recently been added: Hi! Yes, it's me!

Coding Cait
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I mean, I say ideas 3-5 are unrealistic.

Something like Morlais Jn - the spot where the Brecon & Merthyr Railway met the LNWR for their joint line into Merthyr - could be done fairly easily as a "shelf" semi-working diorama, which could then be used as a 2mmFS testbed

Coding Cait
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And once I have an 009 layout working, I could experiment with building 009 track from 2mmFS components...

Or am I getting ideas... above my station?

Coding Cait
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The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.

Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects

Coding Cait
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I mean, I say ideas 3-5 are unrealistic.

Something like Morlais Jn - the spot where the Brecon & Merthyr Railway met the LNWR for their joint line into Merthyr - could be done fairly easily as a "shelf" semi-working diorama, which could then be used as a 2mmFS testbed

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.

Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects

Coding Cait
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Also, the 009 and the garden line would be the same fictional railway, an ore mining line in the Rhinogydd running to a harbour roughly where real-world Harlech is

Coding Cait
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Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread

(5/6)

Something in the garden in 16mm scale/32mm gauge.

Pros:
It's FUN!
I already have a couple of kits, and some bits I printed out
Cons:
It's EXPENSIVE
I'm planning to move house, so I don't have anywhere outside to put it

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

The obvious combination of easy and experimentation is the 009 idea. But the German N gauge has a lot of "fun train set" style attraction.

Ideas 3 to 5 are probably waaaaay beyond my current skill level, if I'm being realistic, but would be nice for One Day projects

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread

(5/6)

Something in the garden in 16mm scale/32mm gauge.

Pros:
It's FUN!
I already have a couple of kits, and some bits I printed out
Cons:
It's EXPENSIVE
I'm planning to move house, so I don't have anywhere outside to put it

Coding Cait
@cait@lgbtqia.space

Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread

(4/6)

Somewhere in Lincolnshire, either in N or 2mm. Possible locations: Louth, somewhere in Grimsby, Woodhall Junction,

Pros:
I know all the area really well
Plenty of RTR stuff available in N nowadays
Cons:
Don't have much of it already
Potentially space needed

Coding Cait
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Cait's Possible Model Train Plans: a thread

(5/6)

Moorswater in Cornwall, in 4mm (EM or P4), circa 1900, with fictional passenger services added in the Caradon direction

Pros:
Pretty, interesting, unusual
Well-documented
Cons:
Entirely scratchbuilding, probably beyond my skill level atm
Space needed