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Oooh, a fireless! Shame we don't see more of them.

 

This project is coming along just fine, David, with a lot of excellent work so far.

 

David

I like the building

Hi.  Wonder if the sidings and mill should all be swung round a bit, so that the line of the buildings isn't parallel to the baseboard edge, as it appears to be in the fourth picture? 

 

Also wonder if the size of the complex would justify a need for its own loco?  Would the reality not be that it would be shunted daily/as needs be by the trip working setting off/picking up wagons at it?  And if something needed moved inbetween times it could be just a pinchbar, or later a motorised wagon mover (little bit like a wheelbarrow)?  

 

An example I thought of of an industrial siding without a headshunt was a military depot at Throsk, because of the pictures of it posted by Ernie Brack, see:https://flic.kr/p/2b14y5M as an example.  However that is off a double track, and it might be that there was interchange sidings within the depot.  I suspect the available mapping of the time doesn't show the full extent of that facility, see: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=56.1094&lon=-3.8463&layers=193&b=1  No doubt there were examples on the real railway of facilities with and without their own headshunts!  

 

Anyway, just some thoughts, I have no particular knowledge of how something like this would have worked!  

 

Thanks for your blog posts, always interesting reading, particularly your extensive use of a laser cutter etc.

 

Hi.  Wonder if the sidings and mill should all be swung round a bit, so that the line of the buildings isn't parallel to the baseboard edge, as it appears to be in the fourth picture? 

 

Also wonder if the size of the complex would justify a need for its own loco?  Would the reality not be that it would be shunted daily/as needs be by the trip working setting off/picking up wagons at it?  And if something needed moved inbetween times it could be just a pinchbar, or later a motorised wagon mover (little bit like a wheelbarrow)?  

 

An example I thought of of an industrial siding without a headshunt was a military depot at Throsk, because of the pictures of it posted by Ernie Brack, see:https://flic.kr/p/2b14y5M as an example.  However that is off a double track, and it might be that there was interchange sidings within the depot.  I suspect the available mapping of the time doesn't show the full extent of that facility, see: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=56.1094&lon=-3.8463&layers=193&b=1  No doubt there were examples on the real railway of facilities with and without their own headshunts!  

 

Anyway, just some thoughts, I have no particular knowledge of how something like this would have worked!  

 

Thanks for your blog posts, always interesting reading, particularly your extensive use of a laser cutter etc.

 

I'll have a good look at the relationship between the buildings and the baseboard before I make any decisions. I agree that having a locomotive is probably complete overkill but I think I can be forgiven for wanting an excuse for a small industrial. It is a really probably that we don't yet have a 4mm scale working horse available. The other option would of course be a tractor with pushing bars, seeing one of those radio controlled in 4mm would be fun too.

 

David