Thanks Andy, I am hoping the new Heljan 7mm 25 is ok, I wouldn't mind one of those.

 

Cheers Peter.

I've just put a short Video on Seven Mills, with the 25 / 5191, on the Oils. Jintyman is doing another 25/0 and picking up my 25/3 later in the week to sound fit that one as well.

Thanks Peter, I think I finally have my preferred approach for creating my Hybrid Hornby Lima 31s now!. Your models of 25059 and 25109 look excellent, I love a Rat with ploughs.

Hi Rob, I have another lima/Hornby class 31 to do myself as I picked up a cheap Hornby 31 a few weeks ago, I am really happy with my 31319 so thought why not.

25059 is actually a hybrid too. It's a Hornby body and chassis running with Bachmann chassis block bogies

Etc.

Cheers Peter.

8 minutes ago, P.C.M said:

Thanks John, I think some of the Scottish HAs had the Scotrail logo on the side.

 

Cheers Peter.

I'm sure you're right Peter, but that came after I had left the Region and was playing with CIGs, BIGs, VEPs and CAPs on the Central Division, not to mention the NRM's 2-BIL (I told you not to mention the NRM's 2-BIL...).

Here is 4 from me then. I do have more from this exhibition but unfortunately the camara i was using at the time was new and wasnt very good at focusing in low light. so most of the pics have focused on the background.

 

 

 

 

 

Great Information Ian

 

Thanks for the finding of other photos in the real world...

 

Jamie

1 minute ago, SRman said:

 

Hi Pete.  Dd you remove the capacitors from the 31?

 

I have a few TTS decoders in use, but I haven't investigated their abilities to alter BEMF settings. That could be worth a look.

 

Also, there are CVs that alter the behaviour including the BEMF cutoff:  CVs 150 to 154 (documented in the leaflet that comes with the decoder. Try CV 150 = 1 as a starter.

Thanks Jeff, I did remove the capacitor, I will try the CVs. 

 

Cheers Peter.

18 hours ago, Rich Papper said:

Inspirational as usual Peter, thank you for sharing. Is that a sheep on the side of 37284? Not something I've noticed before.

Rich

Thanks Rich, It is a Sheep. Some of Cardiff Cantons 37s had it painted on during the mid 80s.

 

Cheers Peter.

Weathering on the grid looks great, an 08 looks good too I'm going to be de naming and renumbering my 09 soon any tips?

 

David

Like your scrap yard area..

Further playing with trains this afternoon produced these images

86240 overtakes 47430 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

47430 Target 48 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

08601 Spectre by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

Frankie Says Relax by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

Target 48 by Simon Barnes, on Flickr

Hi Somon.

Pretty sure 045 was in NSE liv in the late 80s.

Cheers Peter

Hi Peter, I did research this number on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=50045%201988 and in my 1988 stock book, it was still in Large Logo in 1988.

Afternoon Matt, of the top of my head I can't remember but if I was to build another layout I'd certainly try and avoid gradients unless I had the space to make the rising gradient virtually un-seeable. The gradients have over the years given me some issues and one of them had to be adjusted as I was having problems running anything with a Co-Co wheelbase over the summit.

 

Hope this helps

Simon

Hi Simon,

 

Thanks! I currently have an end to end layout which i would like to convert to run around the room - inspired a lot by your effort. I fancy the idea of a Scene with a girder bridge crossing a freight line on one side and was wondering how much of a run up i should use for the 9 or 10 cm height difference for the branch that will go over the top

 

Regards

Matt

That’s nice.

Shame the traction isn’t more “ rateable “ but that’s where we are at these days 

Hi,

 

Thanks for the comments and advice. Regards the Shapeways 325, that will probably be the fall back if this idea with the mk3's does not work. I did think about mk2's but decided to use mk3's due to the roof design. Ben, thanks for the e-mail for TPM.

 

Last night got a bit more done, fitted the roller doors into place and gave the body a quick blast of Halfords grey primer to highlight any issues, which there are a few!

 

 

I think the conversion will work ok, I have a few ideas how to do things differently now.

 

Cheers

 

Simon

Excellent work Cav, I can see Moor St now, I worked at Kia, opposite the old Moor St Bridge for a couple of Months in early 2006 and prior to that at Peugeot which backed onto the line opposite the Football Ground, and the volume of Steel, Coal, Stone, Freightliner, Bins, Oil etc passing over the line in those days was amazing. Loads of 37's, 31's, 60's, 47's etc. as well as the usual 66's

Almost every morning in 2005 when I was at Peugeot a 37 or 66 would come up on the slow line with 5 French Canvas side round topped wagons? come to a halt behind Peugeot, the when clear it would reverse out across the up and down lines and onto the Down Slow and then into the sidings opposite the old Wagon Works, (now Nemesis), one time it was a West Coast Railways 37 in immaculate condition.

The 'canvas-topped' wagons were French-registered IHA coil carriers; not sure if it was sheet coil for Burnaston or wire coil for Rom River Reinforcement. There was also container traffic from various ports to Burton, which I believe went to Argos.

CAD buildings look really good Cav. Will you paint them or will you create a print to overlay them?

 

Its all looking good David, you are doing a great job, I will continue to look in.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Kevin

Hi Jamie I wouldn't like to test that theory although I think you'd probably be correct on he burnt out motor theory or at least some extreme wheel spin. I'm using the peco/parkside coal loads I believe it was Jaggzuk that suggested that one. I haven't forgotten about the speaker I've just not had chance to change them yet.

 

David

 

Hi David

 

Thank you for coring my quote....sorry

 

No rush on the Speaker, I do like this thread so I'll keep popping by to see the progress...

Question for you David, what's the different between the Yellow HAA's and the Red HAA's and ones that went on to be EWS, were the Yellow sub sector...? I'm not up to date on HAA's but always look smart on a long rake, just as I remember them being.

 

Regards

Jamie  

23 minutes ago, rob D2 said:

If it’s the Barry docks one, it doesn’t have anything to do with ships - it’s going to the sprawling chemical works there that makes ,,,er,,, chemically stuff.

 

Used to be DB, now Freightliner.

 

a fella on here made an excellent rendition of the chemical works, but the name of the layout slips my memory.

 

IIRC he had to change the name as the owners of the plant got their knickers in a bunch about it

 

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/88132-vopak-chemical-complex-barry-docks-terminal/

Always keen to promote the modelling opportunities in my locality, around about 0830 am most mornings the ADJ to Barry docks container train rumbles passed my house with the standard EWS 66 at its head,
My employment takes me most days onto the dock at Barry, to the stone recycling facility on the fore shore, my day is lifted with the sight of the numerous coloured containers stacked at the recently built terminal on the branch in the docks line that runs from the head shunt adjacent to Jewsons builders merchant, and the Rank Hovis silos, into Dow, and also back through 180deg back toward the vale of Glamorgan line, through the now derelict Sims metals site. And along the dock.

All accessible to the public, unfortunately all my pictures are on another hard drive and I'm typing this from my iPad, so some reference material from Flickr will start this project rolling.

The branch used to hold an 08 shunter stabled on the dock behind Rank Hovis, to shunt the container train, however the whole operation is now undertaken by the mainline loco assisted by a mobile operative in a van.

The train is split at one of two locations on the dock and the NACCO poly bulk s shunted onto the plant, and the containers are shunted around the terminal for unloading by a reach stacker.

My interest lies in the plant terminal itself, not easily accessed for pictures. So again flickr is used to show the location.

Picture one will be the google earth image of the area intended to be modelled.

Great progress Paul. Really like how it's coming along.

Bit of modellers licence applied here, but this is what I'm sending off to get laser cut, will build six to start with, four for the MPVS and two for the yard.

Got some invites to shows confirmed over the last few weeks, the first is in October, ( was to have been the cardiff show, but now it's a little further afield,) so with that date in mind, let's get the hours in.

Two hours on the track cleaning the paint and glue off has to be the most dull job in the hobby, discovered I need to power up the points with motors to increase the power in the throw.

Glued up the back scene and started on the boxing in, they are just propped up to get the feel.

Now that's a lovely line up of proper motive power!

Yes indeed! Lovely job. Now where is that time machine?!!

Hi Cav,

 

Your comments about the 56 got me thinking, and I went back to the original review I wrote for Model Rail in 2012.

 

I measured the width of the Dapol 56 at 19.3mm.  According to my data, the real thing is 2790mm wide, which scales to 18.9, so the Dapol model is 0.4mm too wide.  

 

However I also checked the review of the Farish 47 in 2008, and found that it was 18.6mm wide, so if we take the same width measurement for the prototype then the Farish model is 0.3mm too narrow.

 

So comparing the two exaggerates the issue, since one is to wide but the other is too thin!

 

Also worth mentioning the relative size: Dapol is 2.1% too wide, Farish 1.6% too narrow.... but very interesting how visible the difference is when they are next to each other.

 

cheers

 

Ben A.