73c Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Must be a bloomin big tender to get all those people in it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 4, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2019 When you've run out of coal 13888922918_653918b82f_z.jpg Book your flights to Ogden , May 9th is sheduled for 4014's return to traffic with the loco hopefully appearing the next day for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental line. It will then spend several months on tour. Mark Twain claimed Egyptian mummies were used for loco fuel on Egyptian steam locos! Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 Also a candidate for "When the real thing looks like a model". Agreed, I thought it was a model until I enlarged the photo. All needs weathering! Especially the plastic hut and strangely placed people cutting across the track. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Must be a bloomin big tender to get all those people in it! YEP ! ........ a bloomin BIG tender ( not suitable for first radius curves by the way ) ...... ......... but you'll not get many people in it - nor run out of coal - when the loco's an oil-burner ! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 YEP ! ........ a bloomin BIG tender ( not suitable for first radius curves by the way ) ...... 2389.08 ; DSC_0652.JPG ......... but you'll not get many people in it - nor run out of coal - when the loco's an oil-burner ! Bloomin 'eck that is big. Hadn't noticed it was an oiler, my bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 Bloomin 'eck that is big. Hadn't noticed it was an oiler, my bad. She WASN'T an oiler - but she will be when she returns to service ..... hopefully this year ! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_4014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted January 7, 2019 Share Posted January 7, 2019 When you've run out of coal 13888922918_653918b82f_z.jpg Book your flights to Ogden , May 9th is sheduled for 4014's return to traffic with the loco hopefully appearing the next day for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental line. It will then spend several months on tour. If I remember right, the diesel locos they used for that move were numbered 4014 and 4884.I'm not a fan of the borg since they assimilated the SP, but they've got style. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 8, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 8, 2019 Just flicking through a book and found a nice picture from the anything goes era of mid-1960s Birmingham. 4555 in its GWR repaint at the time of sale for preservation heading a local passenger train. It doesn't have a location given but I think from memory it is on the Up Main just south of Acocks Green Station. The train has seven coaches, all look to be Mk1s except for the second one which is a Porthole SK 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 9, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2019 (edited) Just flicking through a book and found a nice picture from the anything goes era of mid-1960s Birmingham. 4555 in its GWR repaint at the time of sale for preservation heading a local passenger train. It doesn't have a location given but I think from memory it is on the Up Main just south of Acocks Green Station. The train has seven coaches, all look to be Mk1s except for the second one which is a Porthole SK Another picture of it here: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh39.htm A nice mixed batch of vans to identify! Keith Edit There's another picture of it in Pat Whitehouse's "150 Glorious Years" working a Class 7 mixed freight south through Hatton in late '64 Nominally withdrawn from Laira in 1963, after repaint it was temporarily allocated to Tyseley where it was used as a normal stock loco for a while before heading off to preservation. Edited January 9, 2019 by melmerby 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted January 9, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 9, 2019 (edited) It worked through Snow Hill a lot that year. I posted a picture of it subbing for a Class 128, hauling a BG and GUV, in the parcel train thread. The Class 7 train mentioned may have been the time it was reported to have rescued a failed train and by the time it was relieved at Leamington it had virtually no water left in the tanks Edited January 9, 2019 by TheSignalEngineer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Another picture of it here: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh39.htm A nice mixed batch of vans to identify! ........ mainly B.R. standards with a couple of different LMS types near the front and one of Southern origin further back and ........... and my eyesight gives up at that point ............ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 10, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2019 If you lad (or lass) wants to run a 40+50 combination it's no good telling them it's wrong class 40 & 50 pair depart Crewe, Sep 68 by Jonathan Martin, on Flickr 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted January 10, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 10, 2019 ........ mainly B.R. standards with a couple of different LMS types near the front and one of Southern origin further back and ........... and my eyesight gives up at that point ............ So what type of brake van is at the rear? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 So what type of brake van is at the rear? A four-wheeled twenty tonner ! ( I nearly said there wasn't one 'cos the train's fully fitted an' the guard's in the loco's rear cab ................................ but that's obviously wrong- as a 'van was still compulsory for another five years or so ! ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted January 10, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2019 Just idly browsing, and, as you do, wondered if 25kv leccies ever met ex-LNER steam. See Here: BWR0480 61329 + E3139 ( BRAND NEW ) PASSING DERBY ST MARYS GOODS DEPOT EN ROUTE DONCASTER - CREWE FRI 07.01.1966 by David Russon, on Flickr Regards Ian 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold john new Posted January 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2019 You open the smoke box door on the B1 to fit in the batteries! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 You open the smoke box door on the B1 to fit in the batteries! Is that why when you press the dome light shines out of the firebox ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 The ultimate open access. I think I would pass on using this service https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-46828430/manila-s-trolley-boys 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) The ultimate open access. I think I would pass on using this service https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-46828430/manila-s-trolley-boys Don't give the politicians over here ideas. "East Midlands Trollies announce the 14:15 service to Derby" "West Midland Trollies apologies for the fast running of the 0930 Barnt Green to Bromsgrove - Customers are urged to hold on tight" Keith Edited January 11, 2019 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Langley Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Just idly browsing, and, as you do, wondered if 25kv leccies ever met ex-LNER steam. See Here: BWR0480 61329 + E3139 ( BRAND NEW ) PASSING DERBY ST MARYS GOODS DEPOT EN ROUTE DONCASTER - CREWE FRI 07.01.1966 by David Russon, on Flickr Regards Ian What's going on with the rail that's balanced on what looks like temporary wooden(?) blocks in the foreground? 3rd-rail-esque. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Bridge over a busy road on your layout but the track goes nowhere? https://goo.gl/maps/E3qJmrgkFSH2 https://goo.gl/maps/zg4UK94dxUp Keith Just noticed this one of St Moritz on the RhB. The road was built later than the headshunt but the reason the headshunt is that long is that through coach sets from the RhB in Chur to Tirano on the Berninabahn had to be shunted from the RhB line top right to the Berninabahn bottom right (Not all the through sets/trains went via the Samedan to Pontressina branch) Tm 24 transfering Bernina Express set to RhB 9Apr2001 Ernie 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted January 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 11, 2019 950 St Moritz Tm'24 transfering Bernina Express set 9apr2001 img127.jpg Just noticed this one of St Moritz on the RhB. The road was built later than the headshunt but the reason the headshunt is that long is that through coach sets from the RhB in Chur to Tirano on the Berninabahn had to be shunted from the RhB line top right to the Berninabahn bottom right (Not all the through sets/trains went via the Samedan to Pontressina branch) Tm 24 transfering Bernina Express set to RhB 9Apr2001 Ernie The problem with St Moritz station is that the trackwork isn't really arranged for easy transfer between the two differently powered halves of the station. There is no direct platform-platform link line and a bit of shunting is necessary. Maybe a voltage switchable platform between the two. Meiringen has a switchable section between the Interlaken Luzern line and the MIB for stock transfer. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
73c Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Just idly browsing, and, as you do, wondered if 25kv leccies ever met ex-LNER steam. See Here: BWR0480 61329 + E3139 ( BRAND NEW ) PASSING DERBY ST MARYS GOODS DEPOT EN ROUTE DONCASTER - CREWE FRI 07.01.1966 by David Russon, on Flickr Regards Ian Charing Cross to Derby trains cancelled after finding 3rd rail placed to high Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 The ultimate open access. I think I would pass on using this service https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-46828430/manila-s-trolley-boys Announcement: "Welcome on board. First class is at the front of the train, second class at the rear. At-seat refreshments in first class, and a trolley service will be available in second class... Correction: forget that bit about first class - the trolley service is all you're getting" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Who cleaned the leccy after it arrived at destination amagine all those smuts . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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