railroadbill Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Actually yesterday coming home I thought "it would be great if Rob had just done one of his excellent pictures of a Duchess" - and he had! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 Actually yesterday coming home I thought "it would be great if Rob had just done one of his excellent pictures of a Duchess" - and he had! Thanks. It was a bit tentative and I really intended early crest no speedo, here is another version... In a moment of madness yesterday, just before I received a lovely 6241 LMS lined black Duchess, I bought a 2-10-4 Chesapeake and Ohio T1 class...with a plan of weathering it over Xmas....all before Maunsell madness (SR 851) takes over next week. Never a dull moment! cheers 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroadbill Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) Nice one, Rob. They are a very impressive loco. I always liked Duchess of Montrose because of the Hornby Dublo 3 rail model. One of my friends had that one but I started with the Flying Scotsman set so had Mallard. Which was the better Hornby Dublo model? H'mm. [Mallard was obviously faster ha ha ] Edited December 9, 2018 by railroadbill 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) Here is the aformentioned T1 class... I used to own this one but sold it ove a year ago... the one I bought yesterday was UKP115 with DCC and Quantum sound. who would try to make money from models these days? Hornby do an excellent Rivarossi C&O H8 2-6-6-6 which was used on similar work.. 14,000-ton coal trains, 1-in-100 grades. No wonder 'we' won the war! The H8 achieved 7,450 drawbar hp in tests at 50mph... wouldn't have had much trouble on Shap... a 30-ton axle load on drivers might have had the civil engineers losing sleep though. typos as ever.... British habit of mine. Edited December 9, 2018 by robmcg 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) Nice one, Rob. They are a very impressive loco. I always liked Duchess of Montrose because of the Hornby Dublo 3 rail model. One of my friends had that one but I started with the Flying Scotsman set so had Mallard. Which was the better Hornby Dublo model? H'mm. [Mallard was obviously faster ha ha ] Now there's a question, A4 or Duchess, two examples of engineering art. I prefer one or t'other on alternate weeks. This Hornby model is quite hard to find in BR super-detail... only in the trainset of 2005, and the one in the pic was bought from Rails on its own, with slight damage, for UKP79 ... Edited December 9, 2018 by robmcg 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted December 9, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2018 Here is the aformentioned T1 class... I used to own this one but sold it ove a year ago... the one I bought yesterday was UKP115 with DCC and Quantum sound. who would try to make money from models these days? 3004_T1_portrait50_3a_r1200.jpg Hornby do an excellent Rivarossi C&O H8 2-6-6-6 which was used on similar work.. 14,000-ton coal trains, 1-in-100 grades. 1633_shed_2-6-6-6_H8_1abcdefg_r1200.jpg The H8 acheived 7,450bhp in tests at 50mph... wouldn't have had much trouble on Shap... a 30-ton axle load on drivers might have had the civil engineers losing sleep though. When I see that last photo, I'm reminded of a line of dialogue certain scene in Predator.. ' You're one ugly Mother. (insert expletive)' 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted December 9, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2018 Look like something out of Mad Max a few gun turrets on it and you could start WW3 with it 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 and yesterday's new toy... untrammelled by excessive editing, so far... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted December 9, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) This one escaped the old loco's home.. Edited December 9, 2018 by toboldlygo 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 10, 2018 Author Share Posted December 10, 2018 This one escaped the old loco's home.. 9303_lhfan.jpg 9303_rh.jpg And this one remembers some of those who fought in two wars... Possible Hornby 2019 production. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 ... Hornby do an excellent Rivarossi C&O H8 2-6-6-6 which was used on similar work.. 14,000-ton coal trains, 1-in-100 grades. No wonder 'we' won the war! 1633_shed_2-6-6-6_H8_1abcdefg_r1200.jpg The H8 achieved 7,450 drawbar hp in tests at 50mph... wouldn't have had much trouble on Shap... a 30-ton axle load on drivers might have had the civil engineers losing sleep though. typos as ever.... British habit of mine. Shap wouldn't be a problem, I suppose, apart from getting stuck in bridge-holes and on station platforms... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MatthewCarty Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 This one escaped the old loco's home.. 9303_lhfan.jpg 9303_rh.jpg You're really whetting my appetite for Dapol's offering hopefully this time next year! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted December 10, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2018 You're really whetting my appetite for Dapol's offering hopefully this time next year! They haven't announced the 93xx, yet. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 (edited) Not such a bad model really, given sympathetic photography with mild editing. Wheel flanges reduced, front drivers have brakes, otherwise straight out of the box really. cheers here is the Duchess of Montrose we had in the 1950s early 60s 3-rail.. it was used mostly on front room floor layouts. I changed the drivers/chassis to a Triang? 2-rail B12 c1966 with Kitmaster valve gear but it has been restored as seen here.. Hard to see any improvement really. Unless you prefer blue... Edited December 12, 2018 by robmcg 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 The HD Duchess looks like a refugee from Barry Island...... What happened to the pony truck? Mazak Rot got it? (What would modern Hornby models look like in 60 years time given the same degree of use?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 12, 2018 Author Share Posted December 12, 2018 The HD Duchess looks like a refugee from Barry Island...... What happened to the pony truck? Mazak Rot got it? (What would modern Hornby models look like in 60 years time given the same degree of use?) We were aged between 5yrs and about 16 years when our DoM was in use, stored in cupboard loose with 3-rail track, carriages and wagons all loose, but 'carefully handled' at all times. Sort of. It always looked tidier than the photo, in my memory at least, and I have no idea what happened to the trailing truck, that may have been after I put a Triang B12 2-rail chassis in it... then it may have spent 20 years being shifted around without being used. It is a good question though, how will current models look in 60 years? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 It is a good question though, how will current models look in 60 years? A very good question indeed - if they are like modern cars they will simply electronically die. I also have a mid 60's 2 rail Hornby "City of London" and she still runs very well indeed - though she's now a little tatty. I run her now & again. She will outlive me !! Brit15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 I must say I still cherish my 3-railers! And they still all work, though I wouldn't trust either the A3 or Marshall 3 controllers... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold toboldlygo Posted December 13, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2018 Meanwhile to stoke up, Rob's Swindonitis.. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 Why is the boiler tapered? It ain't natural, I tell 'ee. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 here is the proper cure for Swindonitis... (repeated from the relevant thread) Bow down you heathens! Show some respect. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) I think Hornby may have reached new heights with the Nelson.... Edited December 14, 2018 by robmcg 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 (edited) here is the proper cure for Swindonitis... (repeated from the relevant thread) 851_SR_LN_Drake_Image13_3ab_r1200.jpg Bow down you heathens! Show some respect. Slur deleted for fear of the MiM... Anyhow, I'm waiting for the BR late crest variant. Edited December 14, 2018 by Hroth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 It had to happen, I have added effects and foreground, background, carriages and so on to Mike Wild's superb photo of 851. MiM rule! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 (edited) Well at least it looks better than the knock-off copy of the Lord Nelson the LMS commissioned after they found that a GWR Castle would knock spots off any of their express locos and that the GWR wouldn't lend them a set of Castle plans! The slab-sided, parallel-boilered Royal Scot class, which brutalised its way up Shap until the LMS managed to get access to proper GWR technology by poaching Stanier.... I just had the thought that the reason the GWR wouldn't lend the LMS the plans was that they knew what would happen in the ham-fisted hands of Fowler and his chums! Edited December 15, 2018 by Hroth 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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