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  1. My wife and I enjoyed a trip on the RM combined with an Alaskan cruise in 2011 but were a bit unlucky.  The RM catering crew were locked out by their management in an attempt to reduce their salaries.  Office staff were drafted in to replace them and did their best but...

     

    On the second day we found out there had been a derailment.  In Canada, freight is king and I think there were 18 freight trains with priority over the RM when the line was cleared.  Being a tour, there was a schedule to be kept , so we finished up being bussed through what should have been the most scenic part of the railway journey. 

     

    Hope you do better if you get to  ride! 

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  2. Train-Tech, probably a bit OTT but it seemed a good idea at the time.

     

    Can't remember who the red/white side lights came from, they were the last two in stock.  I believe that DCC Concepts have made such lamps but they also are out of stock.

     

    I'm surprised the RTR guys haven't produced models with working lights, especially with the availability of DCC control.  I still own a Trix brake van made 65 years ago with working lights, powered by their then-standard pick-up shoes.  Flicker guaranteed!

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  3. It's taken me 30 years to assemble my Slaters brake van because of the perceived need to solder the handrails!  However, I have recently assembled white metal kits of GC and GN brake vans and found I could use superglue where there are joints instead of soldering, so I have adopted the same approach for the NE van.  The long horizontal runs were supported  in handrail knobs at their midpoints.

     

    It's still not finished, though, as I decided to fit working lights (including the white/red side lamps), and I'm struggling to stop light bleed under the roof whilst still making it removable.

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  4. 13 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

    Alan Rose and Martin Kirkby brought over one of their 3D-printed Barnums in varnished teak for me to photograph today. 

     

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    An impressive model, complete with the elaborate grab rails. 

     

    That really looks good. 

     

    I have two of these kits in the dining room table queue but I fear mine won't look this good!  I have previously followed the Mike Trice teaking method but am not sure about this on the matchboarding.  The handrails are very characteristic - please could we know how they were modelled?

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  5. 2 hours ago, Tony Wright said:

    Of possible interest..............

     

    There is moving footage of Hornby's latest A1 in operation on LB contained in BRM's WOR site. 

     

     

     

     

     

    It certainly  looks good on your Pullmans.  With  the cast footplate, how did the haulage capacity compare with a kit-built A3?

  6. I would suggest that a closer comparison to the Riddles 2-8-2 existed in the Gresley P1, surely a locomotive ahead of it's time. 

     

    Only 2 were built, possibly because of the availability of cheap ex ROD 2-8-0s, which were bought by the LNER in large numbers.  Had the latter not been available, it is likely that more P1s would have been built, and track improvements such as longer loops and refuges carried out on the ECML to accommodate on a routine basis the longer goods trains of which the P1 was capable.  In trials on passenger trains before the P2s were built, the P1 ran at speeds up to 65 mph successfully, so I see no reason why they should not have handled passenger trains in addition to goods trains such as the Windcutters of the GC route. 

     

    Instead, as a small non-standard class embodying the conjugated valve gear, they were scrapped during WW2 by Thompson and it was the Riddles 9F that gave finally gave us a taste of what a Pacific-sized freight locomotive could accomplish.

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  7. It's good to see accurate models of steam-age wagons and I am very impressed with the standard of modelling achieved, also the free-running qualities.  I too feel that some degree of weathering is required to tone down the SR brown livery, and would suggest the factory blackening of wheel sets in future.

     

    Plse can I request some prototypes from north of the Thames and/or RCH designs for future models?

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  8. I have only just found this thread but am impressed with the layout to date and interested to see how it develops.  I worked at the north end of the airfield in the early 70's and, more recently, in Hertford.

     

    If you are still interested in published material, I can recommend "Great Northern Branches Hatfield to Hertford" by Peter Paye, published by the Lightmoor Press, ISBN 9781 911038 89 4.

  9. Like them or not, fictitious PO wagons are part of our hobby's history, from pre-war Hornby 0 gauge banana and mustard vans through Peco wonderful wagons to the present day.   There are probably a number of modellers who would have been lost to the hobby had such wagons not formed part of their youthful experience. 

     

    I am slowly working my way through my collection of wagon kits to make my goods trains more authentic - but that doesn't stop me from running some of these "fun" wagons, which will be of more interest to the grandchildren than another anonymous grey 5 plank wagon.

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