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  1. The above is all good advice. 

     

    My biggest error early on was not realising just how clean you need to get the brass to make a really good soldered joint. 40 years later I do. 

     

    Out of the box etches look clean but they have a surface of etch resist that needs to come off. Get some fine emery, some pcb cleaner blocks, some fibreglass brushes and some brass and steel minidrill wheels. Keep cleaning as you go .  Wash the flux residue off , clean it all again. 

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  2. My original attempts at EM track used K+L parts. I'd agree with the wheel flange issue, Gibson, and Keen Maygib wheels cleared the chairs, the rest including Romfords tended not to. I still find that rtr oo wheels hit the chairs if you just regauge them to EM. 

     

    So old Romfords and things are no use for scale chaired track. Which of course begs the question, which scale? Take 5 foot oo romford, remove the middle, make a new centre and axle and it becomes an accurately flanged 1 metre dia wheel for 1/50 scale. Mind you, only someone a bit mad would do that ..... 

     

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  3. It might be the case that the CR d2 van in the ops photo is being returned, I don't know know where the photo was taken. 

     

    The CR dead meat vans were built with hooked  rails across the wagon at cantrail height so that whole animal carcasses could be transported. Through pipes and later dual brakes, oil boxes and safety chains were fitted so that they could run as head end traffic with passenger trains. Needed if you had to get meat from Scotland to a London market relatively quickly. 

     

    As for the return trip they may have been loaded, but clearly needing a good clean out first. 

     

     

     

     

  4. I'd agree, CR Diagram 2 meat van, later planked body style. 

     

    The trumpet ventilators are a CR thing. There is a detail drawing of them , wagon book p318. As far as I know they were only fitted to CR stock, but as ever any other info would be good. 

     

    The earlier body style was panelled. 

     

     

     

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  5. It can get very complicated, certainly the CR built wagons for private traders. The situation is further complicated by wagons built by the CR and then Thirled or hired to a particular company.  Add into the mix wagons built by wagon builders for the CR and then thirled or hired to other companies and you have a lot of different angles. Oh, and wagons built by other wagon builders for other owners which went bust without paying for them which were sold to the CR .... 

     

    Much more can be found in "More on caledonian wagons " by Mike Williams. 

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  6. For the Caledonian it's Caley coaches or some body only etches from Worsley works.

     

    I must admit painting and lining is my modelling weakness so I developed a transfer technique for the panels. 

     

    This and the previous 7 blogs chart my attempt at a rake of Grampian corridor stock. Passable, but I wouldn't claim to be good enough to build for others. 

     

     

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  7. Ah, the early CR coach "W" iron. Not just coaches, the CR recycled a lot of underframes with those for things like empty cask wagons. 

     

    I  have hand filed a couple of sets starting with 4 rectangles of 10 thou brass soldered together. Fiddly.

     

    I'd agree Jol. it is a bit specialised. However if some enterprising person did an etch I'd  add a few dozen to the overall demand. 

  8. Well, a lot of the kits and ready to plonk stuff I have looked at in the past is badly underscale. Dunno why, unless the makers think that it goes with the general trend of model railway compression. 

     

    Perhaps some of it is down to the idea that the trains are to the front and buildings to the rear a bit smaller adds depth as forced perspective. Certainly my backscene is about 80% of true size. 

     

    All a case by case decision I guess. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  9. I would agree with most grains being carried in sacks early on sheeted opens and later vans. There was some bulk grain traffic early on, there are a couple of pre-grouping grain hopper wagons in the SRPS collection. Probably only used on a few specific routes where bulk handling equipment had been installed. 

     

    http://www.srpsmuseum.org.uk/10099.htm

     

     

     

     

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  10. Very true Jim, and I would add that the railways provided the food of the working poor, fish and chips. The railways got fish from ports to the big industrial centres quickly, they transported the potatoes and the coal to cook them . 

     

    Don't start me on the fact that a fish supper is now 10 quid, 2 quid at least of which goes straight into the duck houses and moat cleaning fund. 

     

    As for the dark ages if the price of energy keeps going up we might be entering a new one. 

     

    Anyway , thats  my last political rant of 2023. Half an hour and I can start the political rants of 2024. 

     

    Happy new year all ... 

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  11. Depends on the date you are building the model to Jazz. 

     

    Originally (1906) it would have just the smokebox lamp iron and I think just an air front pipe to the rhs of the coupling. The lower lamp irons seem to have been added a bit later. 

     

    They were rebuilt 1911/12 with superheaters. The cab sides were altered and I think the vac brake may date from then.

     

    AB Macleod notes that "905 was fitted by Pickersgill with two large pop valves in place of the original four columns", a bit later than the superheating.  

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