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The pennsylvania S1 reputedly went over 130mph and another apparently did over 140mph and werent even trying to set any records, they were just doing their job and happened to do it in the process but no dyno car and no official record while Mallard had to go downhill while falling apart to set the record, the yanks werent bothered with the official speed records at the time but now a group is building a Pennsy T1 which is similar to the S1 but a bit smaller, The T1 theoretically could beat Mallard's record and to prove that it can de done

So theyve got a new cross head and i'm guessing they they need to prove that it runs reliably before being allowed back on the mainline? Or is it getting it running somewhere to make back money lost from down time?

Butterley have announced on FB that they are next going to start working on 3F 47445 and that they intend to finish it with its iconic orange tanks

I know, i walked past it only 15-20 ft away and it didnt budge from that branch

Managed to get a shot of a kingfisher a few days ago i havent seen our usual deer family for a while but there was a dead one this morning

The bagnall finished a few days ago Fittings are from a box of spares and scraps given to me a while ago, the valve handles on the turret are 4mm carriage door handles While i already have a few wagons waiting to finish i couldnt help myself. Gloucester's first tank wagon of 1865 for "C.Kurtz Liverpool" which i assume was Charles Kurtz alkali works in St Helens

the redesign of the P2 was nearly all by him, if youve watched the a1 trust videos about the p2 cylinder block, it was presented by him, he knew this was coming for a long time and was documenting all his work so it can continue after he is gone, hopefully he was able to complete this

I honestly think that the old layout pages are obselete and i dont any them anymore, not just because that layout is gone but all the posts are a bit useless without the photos and i'm not going back to replace them, i would just keep the first post which would become a compilation/back story intro for what it used to look like

1901 Bass & Co Burton No1228, the last Caledonian single which was about to be scrapped, the magazine tried starting a campaign to save it for preservation but it didnt work Crediton, i saved this one just for the trackwork one of a few shots around the Furness's Barrow works, what took my interest is the loco on the right which looks like a Hunslet or Manning wardle The last GW broad gauge train Manchester London Road Goods Newcastle 1848 various rail sections Tiller patent fold up sheet bars tried out on a North eastern wagon, i already posted the rest of these photos in a different thread

For a few days ive been wondering whether this thread would be better off in the industrial section? and whether to split pages 12-14 from 1-11 or even delete them as its all now obscelete?

@Mr T http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/E&WYUR.htm

After filling, cut away filler to free up the blades and then went round with black poster paint

Do you whats naughty? People showing so many interesting wagon photos in this thread making me want to build them

just happended across this pdf and thought of sharing it http://filestore.limitofshunt.org.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/sectional-appendices/ner/appendix-vol2-1922.pdf

1900 cycle rack in a Furness brake van inside the NBR Cowlairs works every volume has portraits in them, normally as accompaniment to interview articles, some have the whole head office not just chief engineer or GM NBR Mr Holmes L&YR Mr Aspinall

ive also got myself some coal, an overgrown canal path i use daily was cut back and resurfaced earlier this year, and a lot lumps came up during the digging, so went along and got a little plastic bag full which will last me for years

Info board painted a while ago and now trying to fit the gap back scene, a curved board which will be cut away to silhouette of a treeline At the info board end a wedge was needed to fill a gap, which is not just tapered for the angle but the right hand side of it also twists to match the curve This end will hook on Today i decided how to fit it against the bridge, screwed on a rectangle of ply in the portal which the backscene just sits against.

1899 Burntisland ferry Chester Northgate Crewe 1842 from the memory of the first station master Doncaster on Leger race day working class commuter rush at London Liverpool Street Carriage of the Edinburgh & Glasgow

ive got works numbers for many st john locos but oddly never found anything for this No2 -MW 487-1875 (2') 0-4-0 -later votty & bowydd slate "Meirion", Blaenau Ffestiniog -MW 646-1877 "st john" (SG) 0-4-0 -MW 713-1879 "newland" (SG) 0-4-0 -later to Par docks as "Punch" and rebuilt VB, scrapped 1944 -HC 338-1889 "st John" (SG) 0-4-0 -HC 351-1892 "st john" (SG) 0-4-0 -JF 5180-1886 (SG) 0-4-0 -K 4175-1902 "newland No1" (SG) 0-4-0 -K 4738-1910 "St John No3" (SG) 0-4-0 -HC 1884-1955 "cathryn" S.102 (SG) 0-6-0 -Peak Rail 2023 also

Several months ago i started infilling the bottom of the flange ways in the in-set and ended up making a bit of a mess to clean up later, last week the last bit of the foam board was put in and filled around. I filled it in because it was annoying me that i could see the void under the foam board ruining the look of it After that mess i started on the far track but was taking much longer to stuff filler in because the void is bigger in the flexi track so the new method was to mask around and pour watered down filler in to a sort of gravy thickness. Its taking a few goes as the filler reduces in height as it dries Taking this idea further, the rest of the track is being filled in like this to save on the amount of ash needed to cover it, masking tape was put on either side of the tie bars to block the filler getting in and to make walls down the sides of the track bed Next section to fill, again setting up masking tape walls

Ive got a photo of that pudding wharf and loco from the other side but im not at the computer right now

Bit of a pause on the Bagnall while ive started on a OO loco kit i volunteered to build quite a while ago Its a Hunslet 325hp for our club's new layout Bardun, my first brass kit but i'm lucky that ive got an Edge as my first, its going together really easy

Valve gear all done Moving onto details; cylinder covers, steam pipes, sand pots, smokebox door and chimney

im also guessing there must be a wooden floor over them i should have included an intro, ive been going through the railway mags in our club library for a few months, found various interesting things, if it is about wagons, i'll share it with Compound's thread if it is pre 1900's it goes in the 19th century FB group but there are many other things without a place to post so here is my own place. This will be some tit-bits of volumes which will of course be bias to my own interests and im sure Railway Magazine and the second hand sellers wont be happy with somebody sharing it all for free so they will mostly be images minus the article text 1898 some of the drawings in an article of early carriages, Brighton Croydon & Dover, East Lancashire and Manchester & Leeds japanese carriage Taff Vale 75 1860 Boulton's Trent

Some progress while having to remake parts as i go