5050 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Lovely Sam. How did you make the crank axle? I bet it will travel a lot faster than the real one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 soldered up from bits of brass https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/91456-sirdouglas-o-gauge/&do=findComment&comment=4077488 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted February 7, 2022 Author Share Posted February 7, 2022 (edited) an 1899 A&P in Bodo, Norway based on the left hand mountain in the background i guess it was taken about here https://www.google.com/maps/@67.2886038,14.3719735,3a,75y,56.7h,85.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sik5QdErgSvQWIDTsC1xFuA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Edited June 28, 2022 by sir douglas 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 On 23/07/2020 at 11:31, sir douglas said: that came up last year on facebook but i completelly forgot about it, nothing is said for certain what this is except it was something by a local agricultural machinery builder comments on the post gives these links General info of the railway http://www.meldrethhistory.org.uk/page/page_id__516.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3mGEYEFq6Rp-mCIbnJQsHaCH2yPhOwZbHnXLxOMsyQngrtvcMvj4ROIaw surviving wagon https://ramsey-and-district.ccan.co.uk/content/catalogue_item/restored-coprolite-wagon-used-to-transport-coprolite-from-the-diggings-to-the-railhead-wharves?fbclid=IwAR25HLLHW341bU3QbFVzw-VA37PFgRQtxAFQMhbFblqVvXmEu8q2EGi9dLU One for the "Abandoned rails in the road" thread! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 1, 2022 Author Share Posted April 1, 2022 (edited) This thread has suffered radomly from the loss, some photos within the last year are still here but many going back to the first post 4 years ago have been wiped Edited April 1, 2022 by sir douglas 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barclay Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 3 hours ago, sir douglas said: This thread has suffered radomly from the loss, some photos within the last year are still here but many going back to the first post 4 years ago have been wiped Me too, but apparently there's a good chance of everything prior to 31.03.21 being re-instated in due course so I'm only replacing the later ones for now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted May 20, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 20, 2022 Great topic, hopefully all the missing pics will return.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 i will get around to re uploading photos but for now 2 more from FB a front on view of the Hall & Co Mclaren Peerless Geiser of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 (edited) all of my posts are fixed now and here is some more that either got lost in the great wipe or werent added before Wotton/Brill A&P 807 A&P 3766 - 1896 GNSR Aberdeen docks Fowler 1741 - 1872 Dowlais Iron Fowler 3408 - 1880 Graham & Co Lewin "Lindholme" Marshall Whaddon Colprite Pacific Face Brick Co Grieg Aveling 1887 tram engine Edited June 28, 2022 by sir douglas 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Overtypes seem useful for trams. Given most trams have skirted wheels, having 75% of the motion up high, probably unskirted, would make for an improvement in my eyes. I wouldn't think the limited speed would hinder a tram loco too much, either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted June 28, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2022 Thanks for reloading the pics Sam, fascinating topic 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted August 20, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 20, 2022 'Yer Tiz' dasking in the sunshine... Waiting for her next job... Will there be another? 7 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 20, 2022 Author Share Posted August 20, 2022 it is nice but its not a rail mounted engine 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Still could be put to some shunting. Is there any known examples of a road loco being used to shunt? I know I've seen photos of tractors being used as such. Would a road loco have been considered too ungainly or expensive for such use? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 hour ago, AlfaZagato said: Still could be put to some shunting. Is there any known examples of a road loco being used to shunt? I know I've seen photos of tractors being used as such. Would a road loco have been considered too ungainly or expensive for such use? Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies certainly used one for shunting at their Works in the Ipswich Dock area....... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 yes road/agriculteral tractors have been used for shunting in many places but this thread is for the rail mounted tractors. this is going off topic, please if you want to discouss that start a new thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted August 22, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2022 Sorry my fault 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 its okay, the photo can stay but please keep on topic 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 The Hall Mclaren yet again, this time from the Railway Magazine 1930 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnofwessex Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 11 hours ago, sir douglas said: The Hall Mclaren yet again, this time from the Railway Magazine 1930 Looks like a traction engine in a wagon chassis, at least it has suspension which Sirapite certainly doesn't 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted October 20, 2023 Author Share Posted October 20, 2023 https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/131654-annies-virtual-pre-grouping-grouping-and-br-layouts-workbench/?do=findComment&comment=5309917 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Interesting thread, my model of an Aveling and Porter locomotive, 4mm EM, non working, on my under construction model of the Aveling and Porter, Invicta Engineering works at Strood. 9 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted October 20, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2023 (edited) 12 hours ago, sir douglas said: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/131654-annies-virtual-pre-grouping-grouping-and-br-layouts-workbench/?do=findComment&comment=5309917 An Aveling & Porter locomotive model based on the A&P loco that worked on the Brill Tramway. Edited October 21, 2023 by Annie More information 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson044 Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 @ Sir Douglas- there's a discussion on the Imaginary Locomotives thread about "Ophir" of the Edenham & Little Bytham railway- this wonderful little engine started life as a 3 cylindered road locomotive- there are drawings and photos of Ophir in later years after her rebuild by Isaac Watt-Boulton as a conventional 0-4-0ST but nothing so far to be found of her original form- don't know if she was overtype or undertype? Have you ever come across anything? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted October 25, 2023 Author Share Posted October 25, 2023 (edited) All i know about it is from the Chronicles which says it was built from an agricultural engine (doesnt say whether self propelled or portable) built and owned by Lord Willoughby and discussion in a facebook group says that Willoughby displayed an agricultural engine at the 1867 Paris exhibition which very well could have been the same one Edited October 25, 2023 by sir douglas 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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