Rennie locomotives, part two.
Visually speaking, work appears to have slowed up on my Rennie loco project. I have reached the stage where all the fiddly little detailing jobs need to be done and this takes time without much obvious progress. The current pair approaching completion are Satellite of the London & Brighton Railway, and Croydon of the London & Croydon Railway.
However, the list is reducing as each detail is ticked off and at present I'm awaiting some etches for the reversers. This is unusual for me as I like to build absolutely everything from scratch but I will need at least four reversers of two different types and more in the future. So an opportunity was taken to squeeze some on to the fret for an 1849 SER composite carriage kindly drawn up for me by a fellow Brighton Circle member (more of which anon), so once this arrives I will be able to complete the build and prepare them for painting, as well as make a couple of the composite carriages which I'm quite excited about too.
I took the opportunity to compare Croydon with Plumpton, a Stroudley single of the 1880s and my first proper scratch build completed many years ago (and looking a bit rough). The G class singles were not big engines but it's surprising how it almost towers over Croydon. The back-to-back image shows the difference very well.
Bearing in mind that Croydon is in the foreground in the image below, it's still very small compared with the G class behind. The difference is size gives an impression of how locomotive technology and of course power increased dramatically over the ensuing 40 years. Stroudley's inside frame tender was twice the size! It would be fascinating to compare Croydon with a small tank engine like a Terrier or even a much larger 20th century locomotive. I suspect the pulling power of the finished model will be fairly small as well, hence my plan for etched coaches!
Thanks for looking, more soon...!
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