RMweb Premium DLT Posted February 10, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 10, 2014 This thread is for anyone to add their photos of the Baldwin WW1 Gas Mechanical locos, to create a resource for modellers. I'm kicking off with my photos of Moelwyn on the Festiniog, taken in August 2006. Please feel free to add yours. Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted February 11, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2014 Heres a link to the Fetiniog's "Festipedia" page on Moelwyn: http://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/Moelwyn Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ngtrains.com Posted February 11, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2014 Don't forget to get it properly realistic you have to make it jump out of third gear when accelerating. If modifying the kit to be Moelwyn as a 2-4-0 don't forget to pick a photo to model to. When I first drove it the radiator was a home made contraption that looked more like a multi-barrelled rocket launcher and whilst small changes were made the pony truck changed quite fundamentally in the mid 90's when it had a bit of a rebuild off site. This I know because it was me that gas axed its old one on Mike Harts back yard in Rotherham. I will see what old photos I have of it and, if its about when I am at Boston Lodge next week and the sky isn't throwing lumps of water at me, I'll take a load more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted February 11, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2014 Thats brilliant Paul, thanks very much. Meantime found this 1990 photo online: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rpmarks/6133699767/in/photostream/ Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ngtrains.com Posted February 11, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 11, 2014 Yes, that's the gruesome home made radiator Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGH Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Baldwin 48606 in Minffordd Yard at the Festiniog's 1995 May Bank Holiday Gala, when a number of locos from France were visiting. I believe this is in more or less original condition apart from the petrol engine having been replaced by a diesel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted February 11, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2014 Baldwin 48606 in Minffordd Yard at the Festiniog's 1995 May Bank Holiday Gala, Brilliant pics, thats the loco from Tacot des Lacs isnt it? Many thanks, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 11, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 11, 2014 Yes, that's the gruesome home made radiator I thought it was a cheese grater. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGH Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Brilliant pics, thats the loco from Tacot des Lacs isnt it? Many thanks, Dave. I think so, although I don't know much about preserved narrow gauge lines in France or how many more of these locos there are over there. More photos of MOELWYN in use may be of interest: On a works (?) train at Minffordd 1.8.2004 At the rear end of a passenger train at Minffordd 2.5.2005 and at Penrhyn on the same train With BRITOMART at Portmadoc 5.5.2008 At Boston Lodge 30.4.2011 At Portmadoc 15.10.2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted February 12, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2014 Some more great photos there PG. Come accross this weird looking standard gauge conversion, with the wheels outside the frames: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Road_Switcher_Berliet.jpg and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Road_Switcher_Berliet_2.jpg Don't think it was built this way, looks like a homemade conversion to me. Who will be first to model it? Cheers, Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Not mine, but great photos from the 'early' days:- R594 Chain shunt Dduallt Jun1961 by Ron Fisher, on Flickr R0993 MOELWYN Min Yard May 1963 by Ron Fisher, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viriconius Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I've just uploaded a set from the two Baldwin Gas-Mechanicals at Tacot des Lacs to flickr i the hope they'll be of use to fellow-modellersI think I understood that the nearer one was painted green for a film company - they think the beige is more like the original colour (though I doubt the detail was bright red!). But Neil Sayer's kit photos are in a blue-grey... IMG_8747 by Simon of elsewhere, on Flickr IMG_8738 by Simon of elsewhere, on Flickr IMG_8818 by Simon of elsewhere, on Flickr IMG_8822 by Simon of elsewhere, on Flickr IMG_8824 by Simon of elsewhere, on Flickr IMG_8878 by Simon of elsewhere, on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DLT Posted March 11, 2014 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 11, 2014 Some brilliant detailed photos there, thanks very much. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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