RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 Converted to metric 5' 3" is 1.6 metres, a nice round figure. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 13 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Converted to metric 5' 3" is 1.6 metres, a nice round figure. 5'3" was already rounder than 4'8½"! But the latter is one gross of centimetres... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lu4472ke Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I must be stopped... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 56 minutes ago, Lu4472ke said: I must be stopped... Not while you're having fun... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 hours ago, BernardTPM said: Not while you're having fun... Debatable 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishRailFanatic Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Based on an American design of Mallet saddle tank, here's an articulated Peckett - excuse the three nameplates, working with what I've got - meet 'Westminster Westminster Westminster'! Try saying that 3 times fast... 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Alex TM Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2021 39 minutes ago, ScottishRailFanatic said: Westminster Westminster Westminster' So good they named it thrice! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Alex TM said: So good they named it thrice! That's the second time I've seen the word "thrice" used this week. Waiting for the third time now. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) On 25/06/2021 at 11:49, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said: still at it in 1975... clearly that middle cylinder needs a bit of a lube Watching DB steam reminded me of an incident on the Torbay Steam Railway.. Back in Easter 1975 we had to turn the flanges on 7827 Lydham Manor... the only available wheel lathe in those days was at Laira Deisel Depot however they could only turn tender wheels or pony wheels, the big lathe had long since gone from Newton Abbott works... A local tool makers provided a cutting tool to the correct profile that we bolted onto the brake hanger and by removing all the other brake blocks apart from the tender with a careful brake application could trundle up and down the run round loop at Paignton Queens Park in between the service trains, useing the tender hand brake to stop So Pete Roach acting as driver and myself as fireman with Nat Clifford the CME guiding the flange cutting we got the job underway. Now bear in mind both Pete and myself where not 16 yet and still in our last year at school (those where the days... cant do that now with H&S) part way through the second day we became aware of a German shouting at us ... the next thing we knew this rotund German had jumped off the platform and was making his way onto the footplate!... We eventually got him to talk slowly in pidgin English - it turned out he was a shed master from the Hof Valley area " vou haf never seen a fiffty or oh one! - vou haf never lived!" He then proceeded to show us how to fire by filling the box up! Something we didnt want as we only needed a thin fire for what we where doing. In the end Nat off loaded him onto 4588 for a footplate trip to get rid of him - where he fired both ways as if the plan was to empty the bunker... Edited June 29, 2021 by John Besley Correction 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 1 hour ago, rodent279 said: That's the second time I've seen the word "thrice" used this week. Waiting for the third time now. It will be along in a trice....... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, 33C said: It will be along in a trice....... Should that be thrice? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2021 1 minute ago, PhilJ W said: Should that be thrice? Yay! Bingo! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
33C Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Your welcome! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishRailFanatic Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 A squished 2-6-4T forms this next editing venture, imagining a 3MT tank was made to supplement their 2-6-2T brethren. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishRailFanatic Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 A Maunsell 2-8-2. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayWizzleHizzle Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) For my own AU of the Island of Sodor, I'd created a 4-6-0 as a mixed-traffic class, the NWR Castles. They were built at Crewe by the LMS, as it was too big of a job for the Crovan's Gate workshops, for the sake of tackling Sodor's many hills. Ulfstead Castle was the first to be named, followed by Thorkell, Suddery, Arlesdale, Tidmouth, Hawin Doorey, and Callan Castle. Based on the 4-cylindered GWR Kings, it has Gresley A1 outside cylinders, valve gear, and dome, a slightly modified Black 5 cab, and a B17 tender. Although depicted here in blue, I later revised my coloring scheme that all mixed-traffic engines would be red with black lining. Edit: I originally had them as the "Landmark Class" since I'd assumed the GWR held the rights to the term "Castles," but BernardTPM corrected me on that. Edited July 2, 2021 by JayWizzleHizzle Correcting an error on my own research 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tythatguy1312 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 11 minutes ago, JayWizzleHizzle said: For my own AU of the Island of Sodor, I'd created a 4-6-0 as a mixed-traffic class. Although all 7 were named after Sudrian castles, they were legally classified as the Landmarks, since the GWR held the rights to "Castle Class." They were built at Crewe by the LMS, as it was too big of a job for the Crovan's Gate workshops, for the sake of tackling Sodor's many hills. Ulfstead Castle was the first to be named, followed by Thorkell, Suddery, Arlesdale, Tidmouth, Hawin Doorey, and Callan Castle. Based on the 4-cylindered GWR Kings, it has Gresley A1 outside cylinders, valve gear, and dome, a slightly modified Black 5 cab, and a B17 tender. Although depicted here in blue, I later revised my coloring scheme that all mixed-traffic engines would be red with black lining. Honestly Sodor always seemed like a place that would breed... unique locomotives due to the fact that, as the island is hilly and somewhat sparsely populated, conditions unmatched by the UK 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 3 hours ago, JayWizzleHizzle said: lthough all 7 were named after Sudrian castles, they were legally classified as the Landmarks, since the GWR held the rights to "Castle Class." The GWR had no 'rights' to anything like that. Indeed the Highland Railway had already built a Castle class (also 4-6-0s) in 1900. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayWizzleHizzle Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 7 hours ago, BernardTPM said: The GWR had no 'rights' to anything like that. Indeed the Highland Railway had already built a Castle class (also 4-6-0s) in 1900. Ah, I see! Thanks for the info, I'll be changing that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottishRailFanatic Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Always up for a Sudrian spin on things, and the Castles/Landmarks are something I'd never thought of. A stroke of genius on your part, far superior to the muddle of one-offs and prototypes the island ended up with. Think we need a banker for Gordon's Hill though, or we'll be met with even more dangerous situations than Busy Going Backwards! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK123GWR Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 5 minutes ago, ScottishRailFanatic said: Always up for a Sudrian spin on things, and the Castles/Landmarks are something I'd never thought of. A stroke of genius on your part, far superior to the muddle of one-offs and prototypes the island ended up with. Think we need a banker for Gordon's Hill though, or we'll be met with even more dangerous situations than Busy Going Backwards! Sudrian bankers courtesy of @Corbs (I think his Gordon's Hill is a bit bigger than Awdry's): 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted July 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, JayWizzleHizzle said: For my own AU of the Island of Sodor, I'd created a 4-6-0 as a mixed-traffic class, the NWR Castles. They were built at Crewe by the LMS, as it was too big of a job for the Crovan's Gate workshops, for the sake of tackling Sodor's many hills. Ulfstead Castle was the first to be named, followed by Thorkell, Suddery, Arlesdale, Tidmouth, Hawin Doorey, and Callan Castle. Based on the 4-cylindered GWR Kings, it has Gresley A1 outside cylinders, valve gear, and dome, a slightly modified Black 5 cab, and a B17 tender. Although depicted here in blue, I later revised my coloring scheme that all mixed-traffic engines would be red with black lining. Edit: I originally had them as the "Landmark Class" since I'd assumed the GWR held the rights to the term "Castles," but BernardTPM corrected me on that. Is this in fact what an LMS Castle might have looked like, if Swindon had provided those drawings requested by Fowler? Edited July 2, 2021 by rodent279 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimC Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, rodent279 said: Is this in fact what an LMS Castle might have looked like, if Swindon had provided those drawings requested by Fowler? One imagines that an LMS version of the Castle would have had the same relationship to the real thing as the Royal Scot did to the Lord Nelson. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold rodent279 Posted July 2, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2021 29 minutes ago, JimC said: One imagines that an LMS version of the Castle would have had the same relationship to the real thing as the Royal Scot did to the Lord Nelson. A 3 cylinder Castle then? Sounds interesting! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 (edited) I always though that Sodor was way too small to justify anything as big as a Gordon. The main line being basically from Barrow in Furness to the Isle of Man, which is what, 30 miles? It wouldn't need anything with a tender for that kind of thing... Edit - ok, it's about 50 miles, but still not far enough to justify tender locos. A nice fleet of big tank engines would be just the job. Edited July 2, 2021 by Zomboid 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now