Mol_PMB Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 An electric pump for the fuel? Luxury! Do they need an air compressor for lighting up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: An electric pump for the fuel? Luxury! Do they need an air compressor for lighting up? I don't know. I didn't hang around long enough to find out - that security man showed up, with his dog, so I scarpered. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 (edited) On 06/03/2021 at 19:34, Mol_PMB said: An electric pump for the fuel? Luxury! Do they need an air compressor for lighting up? I went back and found out that there is a burner in the bottom of the ashpan, which is fed by steam pressure to atomise the fuel. The steam supply for lighting-up is from a steam cleaning boiler that they use for cleaning the lorry engines. It's a bit of a bodge but it works, apparently. Once the loco has got steam up they open a valve from the boiler so it can use its own steam and they disconnect the shore supply. I think that's what the bloke who's always eating a pie said, anyway. He mentioned something about a compressor and an airline being used in place of the blower but I didn't really understand what he was talking about. I just wanted to know what sort of pie he was eating. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 10 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 That sounds very reasonable. Was the pie snake and pygmy? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 6, 2021 Dave I love the story line as you continue with the build. Especially the security but with his alsation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) One small detail that I have been meaning to add for a while now is some means of getting the fuel oil out of the rail tanks into the storage tank. It doesn't show up very well in the photo but there is a valve on the end of an underground pipe. Around the valve is a steel plate and to the side is a mesh for any dregs from the flexible connecting pipe to run into a drainage sump. Another small job that needed to be done was to fix the safety valves on Ceridwen. This loco was originally Dodo and had the tall dome and Salter safety valves when I ran it on Nant-Y-Mynydd but when I dropped the footplate I fitted it with a small resin dome that was a kit spare. The valves were brass tubes that were open at the top and none of it looked right. I have taken the dome from Osiris, on my Calder Vale Mineral Railway layout and have fitted it to Ceridwen. Osiris now has the tall dome and Salter safety valves Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 6 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdb82 Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Dave, absolutely love all the locos and layouts you produce. Right up my street. Out of interest, how do you go about weathering your locos? Weathering powders? Air brush? Dry brush? Or all of the above?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 48 minutes ago, jdb82 said: Dave, absolutely love all the locos and layouts you produce. Right up my street. Out of interest, how do you go about weathering your locos? Weathering powders? Air brush? Dry brush? Or all of the above?! The only effects I have used an airbrush for are those wagons where I start with a rust colour all over and then use salt and hairspray, and/or Maskol before painting the top coat with an airbrush. Everything else is done with paints and powders, in one form or another - washes, drybrushing, powders mixed with water and painted on... 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) Bogie Bolster C, soon to become BL cars, or razorblades. It's a Bachmann model that I've had since 2015, when I bought it for River Don Works. It was used for gauging trials, and to ensure it and a loco would fit in the headshunt. Other than that, it's never been run. I've just given it a quick and dirty repaint and weather. To cope with the tight curve at Watery Lane, I have made a simple sprung coupling. It consists of one of my home-made milled hooks with a length of bent 0.45mm brass wire soldered on. It allows enough give to avoid buffer locking but only on the outer curve. The inner one is off-limits. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 10 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted March 10, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 10, 2021 Dave I like the homemade milled hooks. The bogie bolster looks great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 (edited) The tank wagon, from page 24, is now in service. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 7 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 14, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2021 11 hours ago, Ruston said: The tank wagon, from page 24, is now in service. Hopefully on it's way to the torch to be replaced with a Bachmann version? Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) There will be plenty of work in cutting up these hoppers to keep Charlie Strong's men busy for a while. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 12 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 I love this layout - always so much going on and the attention to detail is remarkable. The back-story is so engaging too. Great work, very inspiring, keep it up! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) On 14/03/2021 at 06:42, Enterprisingwestern said: Hopefully on it's way to the torch to be replaced with a Bachmann version? Mike. Still think the Triang barrel looks better than the Bachmann version! Edited March 20, 2021 by Mark Saunders Prediction can only spell triangle! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 20, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) You B*#!?@! idiot! It's nearly knocking off time, too! This little shunting accident just happened while having a play with the trainset, so I positioned the figures and took a snap. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 16 2 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 17 minutes ago, Ruston said: You B*#!?@! idiot! It's nearly knocking off time, too! This little shunting accident just happened while having a play with the trainset, so I positioned the figures and took a snap. I've been there! It only ever happens at knocking-off time and/or in terrible weather! Before long there will be a crowd of onlookers giving unhelpful 'advice'... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted March 21, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 21, 2021 8 hours ago, Mark Saunders said: Still think the Triang barrel looks better than the Bachmann version! Agreed, but personally my eye is distracted by the shocking underframe, once you've seen it under 23 different and wrong wagons it's difficult to unsee! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 22, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2021 (edited) Our photographer managed to get some snaps of a Brush/Beyer Peacock arriving at Charlie Strong's yard. He says that the lorry driver told him that it had come from a tinplate works in South Wales. It doesn't look as if it will be going straight to the torch as they had it shunting wagons that a BR loco had left, almost as soon as they had it off the trailer. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 25 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfaZagato Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Enjoying the story. I'd imagine such occurrences weren't uncommon. I know junkyards in the US would do similar with forklifts, especially electric forklifts. Often a battery would be all that was needed for passable service. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortuga Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 I like that middle view. Don’t think we’ve seen it before? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 Really enjoying the story-line Dave. The photography is brilliant and very realistic i struggle to tell which are model and which are real time photos. Wonderful! Best 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruston Posted March 25, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2021 (edited) The Brush had an appointment with Mr. Gas Axe and has left the building. Actually, there is something wrong with that that I can't work out. It used to run perfectly and the chassis does still run perfectly but, for some reason that I cannot get to the bottom of, since I fitted a decoder there is some mechanical issue and it runs along as if it is limping. I gave up and put it back in the cabinet. It was only fitted with a plain decoder but would have received sound, it it had run properly. Instead of the Brush, I pulled another one of what was once the River Don fleet out of the cabinet and fitted sound to it. These Yorkshire DE2 diesel-electrics were fitted with Paxman V6RPHL engines; the same as in BR's Class 07, so I have used a Zimo MX649 decoder with Class 07 sound. It was one of very few locomotives that I fitted with a flywheel but I have removed it as it took up space that was better used by an electronic flywheel. Edited May 12, 2022 by Ruston 24 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mol_PMB Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 Looks superb! That’s a good tip on the sound for those YE locos. Should I ever build an Irlam steelworks one for my MSC layout, I’ll try and remember that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Could imagine that being an ex-Bilston Steel loco picked up for a bargain price by the yard 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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