Tracing work on Victoria Bridge continues, slowly, for now, more along the lines of 'playing with trains!'

I had worried that by putting the smaller, scale, smokebox (of Dapol origins) on the front of the already featherweight Minitrix Ivatt, I might turn its adhesive properties from hopeless to somewhat worse. To keep the weight up, I retained as much of the original metal in the boiler casing as I could, and kept the weight from inside the Dapol smokebox. I think this smaller weight was made from pretty dense stuff, as with the 'facelift' the model seems to be a better hauler than in its original form.

'46443' (soon to be, when I get some transfers!) will happly haul four, maybe five carriages, as seen here.. note the motion blur, no cheating

A couple more pictures of the facelifted loco being exercised on Wyre Forest MRC's excellent 'Kinlet Town' layout. At this point the bodywork was still sitting a little 'nose high' on the chassis, this has since been remedied with some gentle internal dremel surgery to the metal weights!

Shades of Bewdley:

Artyness:

Currently working on a set of N gauge GWR 'toplight' carriages, which is also progressing nicely.