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67492 on glendevon

At the cupar show a couple of weeks ago i too the oppertunity of getting some snaps of my latest completed project. i took these snaps early on the sunday morning before the show opened, and in natural light. as the sun was filtering nicely through the corn exchange windows.   the first shot is of the loco preparing to depart glendevon.   coming under the road bridge before passing the brewery.   and then coming into the platform before coming to a halt to pick up the few passengers.

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more of glendevon

at the club tonight we put the whole layout up as it is going to the the dundee show in july, so i took the oppertunity to play and take some more pics at the same time.   carrick knowe halt enamel station sign     two views of the halt looking toward the road bridge which carries the road that leads to the brewery.     a view of the cattle bridge at the entrance to the main station part of the layout, with a cloud on legs crossing.     a general view of the approach to glende

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In and around Glendevon.

I decided tonight to take some snaps of various locos on the layout and while i was at it some photos of the rest of the layout.   this layout is older than i am and still wins awards. the track plan is based on moffat but, as the name suggests the layout is meant to be in the fife area served by trains from thornton or maybe perth. when i run it i use mainly a perth based black 5 on a two coah passenger set, as was the case on many scottish branches as the black 5 had the coal/water capacity

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ex NB J88 No 68334

my J88 conversion is progressing steadilly, the loco is complete now and has been painted and numbered etc. i decided the other nyte that the cab needed to be altered, i knew it would not be right if i had left is as it was so took the plunge and had a go and, it turned out well. although looking at the pics from this evening, it does need a bit more finishing off.     the other little job was to finish off the roof, i had deliberately left this till last as i was not quite sure about the r

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ex North British J88 0-6-0

i have recently been working on a conversion of an old Mianline J72 body into a reasonable model of a J88 mainly by simply shortening the body and re-shaping the chimney and, i am now working on the cab.   i finally managed to obtain a terrier chassis to fit underneath this conversion as this is the only chassis i can think of that is both rtr and anywhere near the wheelbase of the J88. photos to follow.   to make the body i tok the mainline J72 body and lengthened the tanks by approx 5mm, s

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