Narrow Gauge Island

16/11/2022

Further progress in OO on Tony's layout:

This video is a replacement for the one that was release yesterday. After weeks of preparation, the main entrance has finally been placed onto the layout. th...

13/11/2022

Beautyfull detailling

After weeks of preparation, the main entrance has finally been placed onto the layout. the station is almost complete. and also, we have the winners of the c...

19/10/2022

Here some details of the dry sand tanker a three part wagon reducing it's own wight by using one bogie for two wagons to rest on. Due to this three wagons do only need four instead of six bogies.
All the fright wagons do base on a ginder box enclosing the goods. Here the "Sand & Gravel Ltd." have their bent dry sand tanker split up into a centipede to deal with the sharp curveature of Narrow Gauge Island.
This is a first doodling to keep my ideas in mind.

18/10/2022

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18/10/2022

Collecting data and drawings to scratchbuild my buildings - so I can figure out my individual type of style of NGI buildings.

17/10/2022

Due to the narrow radii in this micro layout I am in urgend need of highly bentable locos and wagons. So I did adopt the Garratt-system of a locomotive anging between their suspension parts. But it isn't driven by steam it is driven by Diesel. As these early 1898 engines were max. built with triple cylinders both sides of wheels we're powered by their own engine. By this we do get a twelve cylinders engine seperated in a pair of 2×3 cylinders motorchassis with the cabin hanging between it. Due to the Diesel tracktion the system is called D(iesel-G)arratt and as the rouble row of bulky cylinders is in need of the hole breadth of the chassis. So there is no possibility for typical front windows so the view to the front is given to the drives by a guard's style lookout integrated in the cabin's sliding door. By this the driver ist able to sit rectangular to the driving direction (as typical for many micro gauge locos) and has got a seat.

My doodling for later to be build Diesel-loco N° VII called "GRETA".

As early study the driver's cabin is Made from.wood hanging down from a ginder connecting stem and stern motor wagon like a bridge. The best points of pivot do have to be established of the middle of the chassis or the axle is best to make use of.

The colouring of the locos is blue - for the rought wooden surface of the cabin as for the shiny surface of the tin of the motorcar.
All the locos are numbered by Roman letters and alphabetically named.

17/10/2022

Hello you entered a non-profit hobby side for a freelance (but finescale) project of an early Diesel-loco railway. The rail is going to connect rural as industrial propertys on an unknown island.

As I do come from Germany I may add a lot of errors in my school based English - but as I do deal with a British railway I think the biggest part of my readers will be able to read English faster than I do.

17/10/2022

A warm welcome to all of you.

Narrow Gauge Island is a freelance rural/industrial railway build in 7mm/ft scale based on N-gauge track. The rolling stock and locos are build on N-chassis to benefit of narrow radii as a micro layout. Due to my recent flat's limited space it is going to be a shelf layout of 800×500mms segments.

Hopefully you do like it and my sloth like "speed" to plan and to build. I recently ordered a small O-scale cottage as a rough template for a pig barn to get started with.

Best wishes from Berlin,

Christian