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Johnson Street IEMD

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6th August

 

Its turned out to be a pretty good week in the life of all things DB AC, Johnson Street IEMD and my nicely developing DB stable. Firstly, in the real world, DB Cargo are putting the final touches to returning Malcolm Rail 90024 to traffic, I am buzzing (pardon the pun) at the news of this, it's my favourite 90, well, its not hard to see why!!! i love the great outdoors and wildlife and all that comes with it, the WCML interacts with our great outdoors in a big way and the northern sections of the WCML probably more so. 90024 has a Scottish Highlands scene wrap on its flanks and looks incredible and has been fused with a crisp turqoisey sea blue mixed with the standard yellow nose and red buffer beam detail depicting DB corporate red. The daily Malcolm logistics run from Mossend to Daventry on the West Coast Mainline (WCML) has really missed its presence ever since it was introduced in its new form, 90024 was previously in first Scotrail Caledonian Sleeper livery before so was no stranger to funky liveries. It's also expected that long term stored 90030 is also going to be reintroduced to traffic, having earmarked before Covid-19 struck, 90030 currently wears EWS Maroon and gold and used to carry the nameplate Crewe Locomotive Works.

 

Johnson Street IEMD

 

Last night i had another chance to see my gradually taking shape layout and do a fit of train moving on it - there is some footage of this on my fledling youtube channel Johnson Street IEMD

 

 

where 90028 and 66065 made their first appearances here. Unfortunately, i had the feeling i'd sound fitted 66065 but this was not the case, oh well, i need to find a DCC sound chip for this shed. 90028 performed nicely, I'm looking forward to seeing 90024 and 90034 performing here too, along with my forthcoming  fourth DB90, which after a long deliberation is going to be 90030 - but more about that in a bit. The Catenary used here was just for show and to get an idea of how the layout will look when that aspect comes together, i wont be using any of it for the completed end result, i have a plan to use a mixture of PECO and Nbrass, PECO for the single track parts and Nbrass specially adapted multitrack gantries similar to those seen around Crewe. The main regional office building also appears to have grown legs and walked forwards, sorry about that, it had been moved just before the shots/video clips were made. 

 

My DB stable

 

My electric pool of locos will be growing in the form of 90030 with a twist, watch this space for more on this !!! I have always wanted my layout to maintain a considerable level of realism but i am also open to a little bit of creative licence in the form of a ficticious loco of one form or another, but dont expect too much along those lines, there are enough desirable real life examples to have. The fourth DB90 will be coming about in this fashion with DB announcing their 2nd half year announcements and the only thing of interest was their DB large logo 66, which, i already have two of, in 66009 and 66065. If i stumble across a cheap example of 66119 on ebay, i may induldge, but the two DB66s are more than enough for the time being. The focus will soon be on Accurascales' new arrival in the form of the 92. plus any unusual DB90s I come across, you just never know whats around the next corner.

 

66065, 60007, 67028 and 90028 - 1.jpg

90028 testing the shed loco siding.jpg

90028 testing over the head shunt section by the Electric Shed - 1.jpg

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