Campbell's Quarry
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2016
- Campbells Quarry a 16mm to the foot scale battery operated layout to show working Ruston Bucyrus excavators.The dragline loads sand into skips which is then transported to the other end of the layout. The skips are then unloaded automatically. Once unloaded the skips are moved to the lower level where a face shovel reloads them.
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Wow - just as I remembered the gravel pit I worked in. This is fantastic realism - a credit to you for sure. Long may you enjoy.
Glad you like this layout, I'm not sure if it is still on the circuit, but was a work of art
Seen it a number of times at shows, could watch it for hours on end. Especially those excavators, just magnificent
Could watch this all day. Saw it at Statfold on Saturday.
Fair play to the patient knitting lady friend! You are the unspoken backbone to our hobby and I salute you missus :)
Fabulous working models of a cable excavator and a dragline on a compact and detailed layout.
And everything worked!! Too many layouts at exhibitions are let down by lack of action or faulty operation.
Well done Sir, I salute you!
Thanks for watching and glad you liked it
It would appear that the steam shovel was the harder machine to make fully functional as the trick is to get the dipper to move in and out. The drag line by comparison is a lot easier to make fully functional.
Both machines require several motors, gearing, cabling and wiring.
Tricky stuff.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Working there would be a job for life.
A small layout but a very intresting one superb modeling wonderful working models the sound was the perfect touch .
A perfect layout.
This layout looks like a lot of fun to operate! Especially the shovel, love those things.
It does require a lot of concentration as I believe that the controls are pretty much as the prototype except without the foot pedals!
Each individual part would be wow . But put two unloading points, two loading points by two different methods and a train moving it round. Just fantastic. Well thought out and well done. Especially in such a small space. Big needn’t be best as this shows all too well. Amacf
Simple but very interesting. The steam shovel and drag line are really cool.
Pięknie wykonane maszyny. Wspaniała praca!
Excellent! Wonderful detail and weathering! Jim
One of the great features of this layout is that it is self contained and in vision, so the sand is dug out of one pit, taken by train to the second pit, dug out of there and returned to where it started from all without behind the scenes subterfuge
Very nice. Like the idea the lady in the background just sewing not amazed by the rail road work. LoL 😂
Men play trains while the Women knit. Great video, 👍
What a beautiful model layout.
Beautiful ! Enjoyed this, thanks for sharing.
And the best part about it is that it actually works!
Well done. Very impressive.
When you don't have room love it 👍👍👍👍
Isn't that fun? And how wonderful to able to take pleasure in your job. Most people would give their eye teeth!!
+Christine Woolley Glad you liked it Christine. John tells me that after this show he has had several invitations to take the layout to other events, and he's also adding several improvements to the layout. As he helps preserve and demonstrate the real machines he does have quite a feel for how they operate and part of the reason for building the layout was to try and find ways of duplicating the operating characteristics of the real machines in miniature - have a look at my Leighton Buzzard Railway video, half way through and you can see a real RB face shovel in action.
I understand that Campbells Quarry will be one of the layouts appearing at the 2017 Llanfair Garden Railway Show on September 3rd and 4th if you want to see it for yourself
Mesmerisingly brilliant,
Amazing modeling skills!
Amazing layout! Great work!
Glad you liked it. Yes a lot of skilled modelling
Fantastic supper models nice job.
Lovely model. Thanks for sharing.
Yes very impressive and it's been further refined since this video was made
Stunning!
Absolute art
Brilliant Sir, well done
love it ..... thinks for sharing
Not just good but very best
Very nice 👌 .lots of action I would have s porter steam loco . still a great layout.thank you
Super gemacht
Nice job 👍 👍👍
simple beautiful: perfect RB 10 RB shovel and dragline models
Great job.
Brilliant!
wow fantastic!
amazing!
An excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
In real this operation would have been obsolte right from the beginning😁 As a model really nice work🖒🖒🖒
What a fantastic module. The 6 "thumbs down" are all from jealous women who wished their husbands paid as much attention to them.
If you have enjoyed watching this then the 2020 National Garden Railway Show will feature another great example
Of 16mm dragline operation
Amazing👍👍👍
It’s huge! What scale is it?
16mm to the foot or 1:19. The track is 32mm or “Gauge 0” representing two foot narrow gauge track, the whole layout is about the size of a dining table
I suspect that this quarry is some Accountants tax dodge, a loss making business to hide some funny money business elsewhere?
Seriously though, it's a great working model and it must have taken ages to work out the motors and controls arrangements for not one but two machines. Even though it is "the size of a dining table" at that scale it qualifies as a Micro Layout! 😅
I will admit that after spending many hours in the backyard sandpit with my Tonka machines that I am more than slightly jealous!
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Either that or a Government work scheme! 🤠 If I remember correctly the size was limited by the maximum that could be fitted in to the owners car, and yes I believe that it did take some time to design / work out, and that the controls closely mimicked those of the real machines except there weren't any foot pedals. Unfortunately I don't know if in 2024 it still exists, but the 2024 National Show will be on Saturday 27th April at Stoneleigh Park, and I know there are already several Aussies coming!
It would look better if he emptied into one then collected from the other every time. When he immediately collects from the very same one he just emptied into it looks a pointless excercise straight away rather than extending the illusion.
Steffen Rosmus: You have a penchant for stating the obvious. Its a model depicting a certain era when this was "state of the art" so to speak.
Yo that’s my last name sweet
Meanwhile........my wife is knitting a cup of tea.....Milk?....just a drup dear..
Come on, get a live 👎