Cunningham Loco & Machine Works Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design. 13 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your neighborhood GWR diesel Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 2 hours ago, Cunningham Loco & Machine Works said: Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design. Beautiful! If I was good at chassis mods, I would totally do that! (Also, are you going to have a go at it? I would love to see that.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 On 17/02/2021 at 09:11, Poor Old Bruce said: Are you aware of this book by Oakwood Press? There are drawings included, one of which is the 'standard' Barclay type. If you are after dimensions, I could scan it and PM it to you (for personal use of course). I've got a 3D printed body which I found at an exhibition and is designed to fit a Pug chassis. It's about the same length as a standard 12T van. My late friend Rex showed me a copy of that book a few years ago when we were attempting to preserve a fireless loco. Sadly Rex passed away about 15 months ago. I have offered to help his family sort through his railway stuff, but it will need to wait until it is safe for me to do so. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 20, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2021 On 14/02/2021 at 11:23, robert17649 said: Just as an aside the vintage car may well be one of the Harbutts Replicars from the 60's/70's Turns out that I actually own one, and that it is a Charbens Spyker. https://www.vintagebritishdiecasts.co.uk/3index/charben.htm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNWR18901910 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 21 hours ago, Cunningham Loco & Machine Works said: Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design. This tank engine I like! It's got all the Midland flavourings to it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMay Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 On 20/02/2021 at 10:04, Cunningham Loco & Machine Works said: Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design. It looks like a boiler stuck on top of a wagon chassis, with no means of converting the power from the boiler into kinetic energy. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2021 3 hours ago, TonyMay said: It looks like a boiler stuck on top of a wagon chassis, with no means of converting the power from the boiler into kinetic energy. Looks like its inside cylinder.... the crank axle goes through the firebox / ashpan... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 21, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, John Besley said: Looks like its inside cylinder.... the crank axle goes through the firebox / ashpan... Reminiscent perhaps of the Kitson well tanks of the Corringham Light Railway and the Liverpool Overhead? Edited February 21, 2021 by papagolfjuliet 7 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
relaxinghobby Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 Cylinders now in place, 2nd time around as they where blocking the cab steps. I've re glued the as close to the wheels as I could and found some narrower steps probably from a kit. The wagon is there to show just how small such a locoas this is. Smaller than the Hornby LY pug and much small than the old Hornby Smokey Joe saddle tank so they would not be suitable for motorising this one. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunningham Loco & Machine Works Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 15 hours ago, John Besley said: Looks like its inside cylinder.... the crank axle goes through the firebox / ashpan... It is indeed an inside cylinder engine. Don't think the firebox didn't bother me ; it did! I worked out that the crank axle does not pass through the firebox, but instead is directly below it, this being permitted by a shallow grate, rearward-sloping ashpan, and high-pitched boiler, the latter of which also allows plenty of room to get at and baby the motion. My excuse, such as it is, is that I wished it to simultaneously fit a cheap Hornby 0-4-0 chassis and not have too great an overall length. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNWR18901910 Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 On 19/02/2021 at 19:32, papagolfjuliet said: This week's evening project: 'Bramblewick,' an Edwardian light railway 0-6-0. Tri-ang 3F body with the cab filed down, Hornby Jinty chassis trimmed to fit, GBL C class tender body, Mainline Scot tender chassis, Narrow Planet nameplates, Precision NER brake van red oxide paint, HMRS LNER coach transfers. BCR stands not for Bishops Castle Railway but for an imagined line connected with another Shropshire castle, namely PG Wodehouse's Blandings. 'Bramblewick' is the name given to Robin Hood's Bay in the novels of Leo Walmsley. The coach is a butchered Hornby 4 wheeler mounted on a Lima HO BR brake van chassis to give a suitably low ride height, and is awaiting oil pots and final fitting of the roof. A truly excellent locomotive, Sir! The BCR sounds like the S&DJR, the M&GNJR and the MSLR. I hope and expect it runs pretty well, too. Also, point of interest; the 0-6-0 tender locomotives in the Pre-Grouping Era would be mainly used as the goods and freight locomotives of the day and possibly on relief passenger services. Not all of them carried names, but according to history or as far as I know, the only 0-6-0 tender locomotive class, the NBR C Class later LNER Clas J36 were given named after service in WWI and one such example was named 'Maude' who is still with us in preservation today and even starred in the 2000 film adaptation of The Railway Children. Overall, great model! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Corbs Posted February 22, 2021 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2021 (edited) On 20/02/2021 at 02:04, Cunningham Loco & Machine Works said: Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design. Dear Messrs. Cunningham, We were most gratified to receive your locomotive design. The directors have conferred with the engineering staff and suggested a number of amendments, being to reduce the wheel diameter to 4ft 0in, and a move to a six-coupled arrangement with the crank axle located in front of the firebox, and the third axle behind, for a more evenly distributed weight. With the resultant reduction in height, a taller cab shall be possible for enhanced visibility around the large saddle tank. We hope that these proposals meet with your approval. Regards, The Board of Directors Edited February 22, 2021 by Corbs 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2021 I propose tubes through the saddle tank in line with the spectacles to provide a forward line-of-sight. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted February 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2021 10 hours ago, LNWR18901910 said: A truly excellent locomotive, Sir! The BCR sounds like the S&DJR, the M&GNJR and the MSLR. I hope and expect it runs pretty well, too. Also, point of interest; the 0-6-0 tender locomotives in the Pre-Grouping Era would be mainly used as the goods and freight locomotives of the day and possibly on relief passenger services. Not all of them carried names, but according to history or as far as I know, the only 0-6-0 tender locomotive class, the NBR C Class later LNER Clas J36 were given named after service in WWI and one such example was named 'Maude' who is still with us in preservation today and even starred in the 2000 film adaptation of The Railway Children. Overall, great model! This was the kind of effect I was aiming for: https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/RALWAYS-EXCLUDED-FROM-THE-1923-GROUPING/RAILWAYS-EXCLUDED-FROM-THE-1923-GROUPING/i-mZ4qhGf/A https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/COLONEL-STEPHENS-RAILWAY-EMPIRE/THE-SHROPSHIRE-MONTGOMERYSHIRE-RAILWAY/i-2ZHf38D 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted February 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 22, 2021 11 hours ago, LNWR18901910 said: Also, point of interest; the 0-6-0 tender locomotives in the Pre-Grouping Era would be mainly used as the goods and freight locomotives of the day and possibly on relief passenger services. I'm afraid this is misleading. The 19th century 0-6-0 was very much a mixed-traffic engine, except for those specifically classed as mineral engines. After the Regulation of Railways Act 1889 only engines fitted for working trains with continuous brakes could be used for passenger trains but that applied to a lot of 0-6-0s. Particularly on a minor line, the 0-6-0 would be the maid of all work. As to names, very few of the pre-Grouping companies went in for them at all although that included two of the largest, the LNWR and GWR. 4 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cunningham Loco & Machine Works Posted February 22, 2021 Share Posted February 22, 2021 12 hours ago, Corbs said: Dear Messrs. Cunningham, We were most gratified to receive your locomotive design. The directors have conferred with the engineering staff and suggested a number of amendments, being to reduce the wheel diameter to 4ft 0in, and a move to a six-coupled arrangement with the crank axle located in front of the firebox, and the third axle behind, for a more evenly distributed weight. With the resultant reduction in height, a taller cab shall be possible for enhanced visibility around the large saddle tank. We hope that these proposals meet with your approval. Regards, The Board of Directors To the Board of Directors & whomever else it may concern, We are quite amendable to your making any modifications to the design that you deem necessary in its adaptations to the conditions prevailing upon your railway. Regards, Cunningham Locomotive & Machine Works (Trsnscriber's note: penciled beneath the text of the letter there is a note, apparently reading, as far as the scrawl can be ascertained: "so long as we see pictures".) 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNWR18901910 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 This is one for my micro layout I am planning: a modified Bachmann Thomas the Tank Engine model into a freelance version of the SECR R1 Class 0-6-0T! So, as you can see, I've marked out what needs adding, what needs removing, what needs replacing and what needs cutting out. *In red: cut off side-tanks and large headlamp and cut out back box infill as to add a crew inside possibly depending on how I could get away with *In purple: level the running-board front to make it flat and parallel to the rear *In orange: fill in the extra cab window *In yellow - replace the face along with eye mechanism removal with a standard Hornby or Bachmann smokebox door *In green - make sandboxes and add whistle on top of cab roof and handrails from smokebox to tanks along the boiler which would fill in where the sidetanks once were I know I could've just made the Bachmann Thomas more like his original basis, but I like to be creative and ambitious when it comes to models. I don't look at all my projects and say, "That's it, I'm satisfied." I just want to go onto the next thing. This is gonna be a big loco project I'll be doing at some point. 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu4472ke Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 On 22/02/2021 at 09:30, Corbs said: Dear Messrs. Cunningham, We were most gratified to receive your locomotive design. The directors have conferred with the engineering staff and suggested a number of amendments, being to reduce the wheel diameter to 4ft 0in, and a move to a six-coupled arrangement with the crank axle located in front of the firebox, and the third axle behind, for a more evenly distributed weight. With the resultant reduction in height, a taller cab shall be possible for enhanced visibility around the large saddle tank. We hope that these proposals meet with your approval. Regards, The Board of Directors Something for Jouef (I think?) SNCF outside frame 0-6-0 diesel shunter chassis maybe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Just thought I'd knock up another SECR Q1, this one will be ending up in photographic grey for the full SECR effect Someone previously mentioned I tended to just post almost completed models so this time you get to see exactly what happens. Fortunately I happened to have a couple of R1 bodies in different colours Hopefully this shows the beginning of the process and inspires someone else to give it a try! Next step is to clean up the filler and file away any excess plastic coal 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your neighborhood GWR diesel Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 22 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: Just thought I'd knock up another SECR Q1, this one will be ending up in photographic grey for the full SECR effect Someone previously mentioned I tended to just post almost completed models so this time you get to see exactly what happens. Fortunately I happened to have a couple of R1 bodies in different colours Hopefully this shows the beginning of the process and inspires someone else to give it a try! Next step is to clean up the filler and file away any excess plastic coal It looks beautiful already! I love the SE&CR. Also, is that a Tri-ang body? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 24 minutes ago, Your neighborhood GWR diesel said: It looks beautiful already! I love the SE&CR. Also, is that a Tri-ang body? It's a Hornby Dublo/Wrenn R1. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted February 27, 2021 Share Posted February 27, 2021 Just a little more progress today. Front end shortened a bit and lamp irons added to the bufferbeam Needs a little bit of filling and chopping the irons down a bit. I'll be adding irons to the bunker too 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your neighborhood GWR diesel Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 23 hours ago, sem34090 said: It's a Hornby Dublo/Wrenn R1. Ah. Thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Your neighborhood GWR diesel Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 21 hours ago, Sophia NSE said: Just a little more progress today. Front end shortened a bit and lamp irons added to the bufferbeam Needs a little bit of filling and chopping the irons down a bit. I'll be adding irons to the bunker too I think it would make a good shunter with dumb buffers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia NSE Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 40 minutes ago, Your neighborhood GWR diesel said: I think it would make a good shunter with dumb buffers. it's a passenger loco! This, however, will be the local quarry's shunter 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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