Anunaka

This page will detail various changes which have been made to Anunaka as part of the permanent layout.

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Key turnout replaced - 20 May 03

The original Peco 009 points were fine with the layout as originally operated, as they were only used for locomotives running round. Now that trains enter the station at this end, they are far too sharp. Here we see the results of an hour or two's work to remove old track and excavate down to the timber subroadbed. The replacement #6 turnout is seen temporarily in position. During the course of this excavation I came across an old tube - it looks like a 6" pipe - which was the original method of operation for the Peco turnouts.

Key turnout replacment completed - 20 July 03

Here are views showing various stages in installing the new turnout. On the left we see the turnout, with sufficient rail added to replace all the removed track. PCB sleepers have been painted brown. The middle image shows wooden sleepers added to "fill the gaps", all glued into place on the cork underlay. On the right we see the finished product - painted and ballasted. Quite a remarkable difference in appearance.

Extra real estate - 25 August 03

A small amount of work has resulted in quite a transformation at the wharf end of Anunaka. A small, fill-in piece of styrofoam and a curved skyboard have replaced the previous series of short, straight boards between the back of the wye and the end of the layout. The newly acquired area of land hand has ground cover added, the left side given a bare earth treatment. The plan is for this area to be fenced into a paddock which includes the cattle dock. Perhaps now I might do something similar on the station side of the wye, and remove the short, straight skyboards altogether.

Cattle Dock Holding Paddock - 23 May 04

The holding paddock has been fenced now. The ground inside the fence line was treated with "black" dirt rather than the more usual red/brown colour used on the rest of the layout, to better represent a paddock trampled into submission by the cattle. The fence, a five-strand wire fence, is from a commercial kit produced locally by Sentinel.

Last updated 23-May-04

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