Wickham Green too Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Certainly not going to be at Earls Court now ................. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 18, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 18, 2020 Can't afford the new high fidelity APT? Why not go halves with a mate? 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium iands Posted August 18, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 18, 2020 Looks like a problem with the suspension/tilting mechanism. how easy would that be to recreate convincingly on a layout? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK123GWR Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Just now, iands said: Looks like a problem with the suspension/tilting mechanism. how easy would that be to recreate convincingly on a layout? Jam some paper into the mechanism? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post montyburns56 Posted August 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted August 20, 2020 Overdone it with the flock? Sandown 1963 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted August 20, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) On 18/08/2020 at 16:49, Metr0Land said: Can't afford the new high fidelity APT? Why not go halves with a mate? Gauging test with tilt failed wrong way, perhaps? Edited August 20, 2020 by 96701 Typing in the wrong bit...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Any way's the wrong way on straight track ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 20, 2020 3 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Overdone it with the flock? Sandown 1963 Somebody cut the grass and found those two lurking there! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted August 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 20, 2020 Shame they could not have been hidden until the IOW Steam Railway could have got hold of them! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 just seen 2 class 66's top & tailing a pair of empty container wagons, sorry no photo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack374 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 1 hour ago, sir douglas said: just seen 2 class 66's top & tailing a pair of empty container wagons, sorry no photo Possibly a wagon repair trip? I saw this photo today and on second glance it’s actually quite a mash up...GBRf-operated working led by 66763, hauling a dead DB Maritime livery 66005 (these workings often used to transfer locos), then a DB red MXA 'Lobster' bogie box (ex-BDA chassis), YSA 'Salmon' bogie flat, then what appears to be a blue livery BDA. I’ve never seen the blue BDA before, very modellable I’d have thought... (Flickr link) Jack. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 14 hours ago, sir douglas said: just seen 2 class 66's top & tailing a pair of empty container wagons, sorry no photo Fairly close. Holbeck 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted August 22, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 22, 2020 2 class 66’s for 5 empty hoppers? Bit of overkill innit. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris M Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 (edited) The GBRf pair of 50s are now regulars top and tailing loads of two or three old coaches or the occasional HST power car. Kernow are doing a limited edition pack of the pair as they are now in N gauge. That makes an interestingly different nice little train for a modern layout. Here they are passing through a rather wet Widney Manor last Monday. Sorry about the quality, these are snapshots from my video. Edited August 22, 2020 by Chris M Photo added 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldomtom2 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 From the Hattons Genesis coach thread. Anyone for blue-and-grey pre-grouping six-wheelers? DE320104E_Wolverton_c1968 by robertcwp, on Flickr 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 On 22/08/2020 at 06:30, Hilux5972 said: 2 class 66’s for 5 empty hoppers? Bit of overkill innit. Probably down to operational convenience, it may have saved a run round en route or the rear loco may be needed elsewhere. Happens more often than you'd think and saves an expensive light loco path. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 (edited) Ten wheels on my wagon ..... no longer rolling along ........... DEFINITELY ' Not to be Hump Shunted' ! Edited August 23, 2020 by Wickham Green too 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 23, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Wickham Green too said: Ten wheels on my wagon ..... no longer rolling along ........... DEFINITELY ' Not to be Hump Shunted' ! Somewhere in China? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted August 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 23, 2020 That looks very much like the main hall at the BeiJing railway museum. ..but I don't recall the center wheels though! (I'll have a shifty through the phots I took..) Kev. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted August 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 23, 2020 It is BeiJing! I even took a photo of it... Kev. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 The centre wheels ............. looks like they're on some sort of a cross-slide but won't accommodate much of a change of gradient without doing 'interesting' things to the axle loads ! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLBH Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 On the subject of wacky coal wagons, Burlington Northern's Trough Train warrants a mention: Yup, that's a 13-unit articulated coal hopper. Or rather, 23 of them in one train, because that's what happens when North American railroads and King Coal meet. You definitely won't get that under the screens in the Welsh Valleys. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold SHMD Posted August 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 24, 2020 Here's a whole rake of these "10-wheelers" on a train heading through KaiFeng in 2004. I remember them as being quite noisy (they were empty) and there was one car, in the middle, which was "hunting around" alarmingly! I wonder if the centre wheel was set wrong and was taking too much of the weight of the car? Kev. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 1 hour ago, RLBH said: On the subject of wacky coal wagons, Burlington Northern's Trough Train warrants a mention: Yup, that's a 13-unit articulated coal hopper. Or rather, 23 of them in one train, because that's what happens when North American railroads and King Coal meet. You definitely won't get that under the screens in the Welsh Valleys. If I didn't know better I'd swear that was alongside Loch Carron on the Kyle Line ! 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted August 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 24, 2020 2 hours ago, RLBH said: On the subject of wacky coal wagons, Burlington Northern's Trough Train warrants a mention: Yup, that's a 13-unit articulated coal hopper. Or rather, 23 of them in one train, because that's what happens when North American railroads and King Coal meet. You definitely won't get that under the screens in the Welsh Valleys. How do the stop the coal falling out the joins? Lasted until BNSF days: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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