Edwardian Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I suspect the chaldrons are a wee bit easier with EM wheelsets! Nice work all round. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 5 Author Share Posted January 5 2 hours ago, Edwardian said: I suspect the chaldrons are a wee bit easier with EM wheelsets! Definitely easier in EM and they are suprisingly free running given that the axles are held in resin lugs but I will need to add some blackened brass washers behind each wheel to stop too much lateral movement from occurring. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold lezz01 Posted January 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 5 Isn't everything? Easier in EM I mean. Regards Lez. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 11 Author Share Posted January 11 Power restored to all sections of 'Mealsgate', including the relaid Bolton Loop and the carriage & goods shed sidings and all of the point motors are wired up and operational. The layout hack, a Bachmann Cl.25/3 (!), has traversed all lines and only derailed itself a couple of times on the relaid sidings due to now corrected track faults. Next step is to paint / touch up the track and ballast and then start on the basic scenics. That said, I haven't got round to narrowing the baseboards and moving the controls to the otherside - I think I need to run some trains first ! Rumour has it that M&CR No.29 (or is it No. 30 ? ), one of the big 'Yorkshiremen', will soon be seen on the line, an event that escaped the notice of photographers in the early 1920s... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DavidLong Posted January 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 The Class 25/3 is an entirely appropriate piece of motive power for the railways of West Cumbria but for a slightly later era than the period that you are modelling. Common as rats! David 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 (edited) Exactly and given that part of the Mealsgate line was retained as a long siding into the mid-1970s (complete with its own TOPS code !), it's possible that a Cl.25 might have at least ventured on the line at the Aspatria end. Edited January 12 by CKPR 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 (edited) Getting rather distracted by the other lines in north Cumberland, especially after a trip to Hay-on-Wye that yielded two more 'missing' volumes for my reference library (the Port Carlisle book came from The Bookcase in Keswick). That London Road Models have the NBR class R / J82 in their range was welcome and tempting news to me ! Obviously even I'm not daft enough to attempt an animatronic horse in 4mm,but I was wondering if anyone has attempted this for Trainz, etc [ @Annie ?] Oh, and I discovered from the Essery & Jenkinson book that Caledonian 4-4-0T No.7 retained her pre-group livery until 1928 ! Edited January 14 by CKPR 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 I was there... What remains of the 'stone outer dock': 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcD Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 There is a program on the iPlayer (Villages by the Sea) that looks a Port Carlisle's rise and fall. It's worth wasting a bit of time watching. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted January 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14 1 hour ago, CKPR said: Even I'm not daft enough to attempt an animatronic horse in 4mm,but I was wondering if anyone has attempted this for Trainz, etc [ @Annie ?] Yes it has. A fully animated horse was made a good few years ago by a very clever digital modeller for Trainz. Unfortunately they are no longer with us and they took the secret of its construction and scripting with them when they departed this world and no-one has attempted making one since. I've made use of the horse model from time to time to shunt sidings when I want something of a challenge and it certainly works just fine. It's been used to draw carts on specially adapted roads as well as horse drawn trams. Recently a friend devised a way of creating a horse drawn tramway for a stone quarry using this same horse. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 (edited) 1 hour ago, Edwardian said: I was there... What remains of the 'stone outer dock': Thank you James and the track plan, which I had not previously seen in its entirety, certainly opens up some very interesting modelling possibilities. Edited January 14 by CKPR 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ChrisN Posted January 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 14 There is the model that has a horse drawn tramway on it, with the horse sort of moving. In the background there is someone hitting two halfs of a coconut together. It has been discussed on a thread here, somewhere. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 (edited) 56 minutes ago, ChrisN said: In the background there is someone hitting two halfs of a coconut together. Well, you know me and my love of analogue railway sound synthesis... Edited January 14 by CKPR 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CKPR Posted January 27 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 27 (edited) I've finally got around to making a mock up of Mealsgate station building from the CRA plans by Mike Faulkner that were kindly given to me by @SteamAle at the Workington show some years ago. The original plans are to 3mm/1' and rather than redraw them, I decided to make a 4mm scale proving model from mounting board before starting on the model proper, which will be made of ply and DAS. I'm currently working out how to use A1 sheets of thinner mounting board to reproduce the platform, forecourt and roads in one piece so as to avoid any obvious gaps or changes in level. For the purposes of establishing the correct position of everything, I'm obviously just playing around with various bits and pieces, some of which like the stop-gap platform, will be scrapped or rebuilt. PS the station building was made from the last of my 50p mounting board offcuts from the now sadly closed Printing House in Cockermouth so another sort of connection with the M&CR proper ! Edited January 29 by CKPR 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Could you not scan the 3mm drawing and print to 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 25 minutes ago, sir douglas said: Could you not scan the 3mm drawing and print to 4 Strictly old school round here, marra ! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 Juat arrived in the post, an un-used M&CR luggage label for Annan. These seem to be relatively common and I wonder if this is because of the dwindling traffic over the Solway Junction line back in the day. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamAle Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Bit big to go on a 4mm model I think. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian@stenochs Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 2 hours ago, CKPR said: Juat arrived in the post, an un-used M&CR luggage label for Annan. These seem to be relatively common and I wonder if this is because of the dwindling traffic over the Solway Junction line back in the day. Is that. Annan G&SWR or Annan (Shawhill) CR? 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 4 hours ago, ian@stenochs said: Is that. Annan G&SWR or Annan (Shawhill) CR? Good question and given the M&C's link with the Caley at Brayton, I would presume it was Annan (Shawhill). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 (edited) No going back now ! The topography of High Blaithwaite has been drastically modified and will now hopefully be much more accurate. I've also narrowed Mealsgate as a prelude to swopping the controls to the other side and making a proper control panel, complete with a working lever frame. I'm on me tod for two weeks (Mrs-CKPR-to-be is away cat sitting in Mancunia), I've got a weeks holiday coming up and I'm stocked up with scenic materials, etc, so we should see some progress on both Mealsgate and High Blaithwaite. Edited February 18 by CKPR 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 Bleak but better, don't you think ? There will be a low embankment at the front with a proper facia board to be fitted when the basic scenery is in place. The road bridge will now fulfill it's proper model railway function and hide the exit to the fiddle yard. The area behind the station building will be slightly raised to platform level, gradually falling to towards the carriage and goods sheds. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 (edited) A view from a bridge - blocking in the landscape with card before getting to the hopefully not too messy bit with the mod-roc. I've painted the rails but will clean up the railheads after building up the landscape. Next step, making a brew and then attending to an urgent request from a student about her doctoral thesis (I know, I'm supposed to be on annual leave this week). Again, excuse the class 25s but I'm not risking one of my M&C engines as a test engine at this stage. Ah yes, the dog leg in the (truncated) goods shed siding - it's been relaid three times and I'm not risking making it even worse by taking it up again... Edited February 27 by CKPR 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 20 hours ago, CKPR said: excuse the class 25s I'll think about it. No guarantee, mind. But, seriously, that is a lovely shot, very 'natural' looking splay of track. 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 (edited) The positions of the various structures have been finalised using known dimensions and photographs and the substructure for the platform has been fitted. I've also cut away the embankment to the correct angle of the bridge. @Edwardian, fear not James as the Class 25 has been banished to its stabling point in the carriage shed road and the branch train proper is being used to check clearances. We're in P4 territory here as having scaled down both the rolling stock and civil engineering to 1:76.2, the clearances are prototypical and hence pretty tight (the M&CR's loading gauge was always somewhat restricted). Edited February 29 by CKPR 14 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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