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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1h

#hobbyStreak 80. Prepared another rear spacer for Percy. This one set up for Accuscale couplers.

Chitubox screenshot of the rear end of Percy's frame inverted at 45 degrees on the build plate and supported all over the place.

Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 79. Built some odd-shaped mock-up buildings for a friend. The fascia cuts both of them at an angle, making for nasty geometry!! #modelRailway #modelRailroad

Model railway track with two whit foam core buildings side by side. The first is a shallow-pitched shed roofed loading platform, and further along the track is a peak-roofed coal shed.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 77. Came up with a new gauge to hold stock rails in gauge while new glue sets. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The new gauge is like an H-beam that is exactly 16.5 mm wide. The two legs of the H engage with the point and the stock rail on the diverging route of turnout 9 in this view.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 73. Poor old Percy is two steps forward, one step back as I discovered the gearbox joint hadn’t held. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

Percy’s rear drivers and gearbox pulled from the chassis again.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 72. The late afternoon sun streaming in through the basement window made this interesting view of the wheat field. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The low sun casts the distant water tower and the tool shed mostly into shadow, while the wheat field in the foreground is brilliant gold.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 71. Tonight was Oktobahnfest, and a dozen local modellers came by to see what’s happened on Pembroke. Of course one of the points on switch ten broke minutes before the first guest arrived. Fortunately, I was able to put it right quickly. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The switch of Turnout 10 shortly after repair.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 66. Resolved a failing frog juicer issue by simply moving to another one. Curious. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

Frog juicer board under Pembroke with seven LEDs lit. They change from green to red when they detect a short and switch polarities.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 65. Finally resolved the issues with turnout 8. It was a pain in the back, being two feet into the scene beyond the roundhouse and turntable, standing on a stool leaning into the scene. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

Geezer standing on a step stool and leaning past the roundhouse to get at switch 8 with a gauge.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 64. Another evening of track woes: I made this switch worse! #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The switch of turnout #8, with a test truck that took the wrong route.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 63. Moving the guardrails on turnout 7 seems to have resolved the sneaky problem. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

My hairy fingers use a gauge to check the check gauge on turnout 7

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 59. Maybe resolved a derailment on switch 6? Have to wait for some glue to set to find out. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The frog area of Switch 6 with a track gauge at the point where the electrical gap is.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 57. Printed and chopped up a bunch of bills of lading so the agent will know who those coal cars should be delivered to. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

Desk showing (left to right) the clearance for for train 46. Bills of lading for coal to Lee Manufacturing and Beatty Manufacturing. Way Bill for four cars to Pembroke

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

#hobbyStreak 52. Added the axle safety strap and bearings to the passenger truck #modelRailway #modelRailroad

OnShape screen capture of the passenger truck with safety strap and bearing bolted to the safety beam. Some other additional details include more pedestal bolts and the four tie rods.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

#hobbyStreak 46. Spent a lot of time staring at drawings of passenger trucks. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

Page of a Trainshed Cyclopedia repro of the 1898 Car Builders Dictionary

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#hobbyStreak 45. The thicket is installed. Just need to fill in around it now. #ModelRailway #modelRailroad

The thicket with its backdrop installed at the end of the layout.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#hobbyStreak 34. The Thicket board got grassy and did some experiments for the pines. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The Thicket board, now covered in static grass and ground foam, amongst the mess

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

#hobbyStreak 33. Tested all the armatures in their holes and enlarged some holes to suit. Then marked them all in preparation for ground work. #modelRailway #modelRailroad

The Thicket base with a flag in each tree hole to label the hole so the right tree finds it. From south end.

The Thicket base with a flag in each tree hole to label the hole so the right tree finds it. From West and above.

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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#hobbyStreak 32 Cut out the backdrop for the Thicket. Imagine doing this by hand? That was my original plan! #modelRailway #kodelRailroad

Leaderboard cut-out of some distant trees and hills on a yellow placemat so you can appreciate the bird holes.

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