A J52 for Finsbury Square

[Mallard60022]

12 hours ago, 31A said:

 

This is one of the other Finsbury Square station pilots:

 

 

The other two locos in the Pilot Link are a mucky J50 and almost equally mucky 350HP Diesel, so I won't show you them!

As Pimped as a Cleaners' Bothy. Boootiful job Steve.

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[manna]

G'Day Folks

 

Like the conversion using a J15 chassis into a J52, I did the opposite, I made a J52 into a J15.

 

manna

 

PS. A new dome has been fitted since these pics were taken.

[31A]

11 hours ago, manna said:

Like the conversion using a J15 chassis into a J52, I did the opposite, I made a J52 into a J15.

 

That's very ingenious!

[Chas Levin]

 

On 03/12/2022 at 10:01, 31A said:

 

That's very ingenious!

Just came across this thread, thanks Steve for popping a couple of pictures of your finished project on the end; although the other project features are very interested - and very impressive - I was very disappointed when I thought I wouldn't be ale to see it at all.

I picked up a Hornby one a while back in GNR livery because I didn;t at that point have anything in the livery and although it's by no means very accurate it did provide a little distant set dressing. To my surprise tohugh, it's a really good runner, completely unaltered by me (well, other than crewing and coaling) so I haven't done anything with it since. PArtly that's because of other projects, partly because of better GNR vehicles having superseded it.

And I fully agree about the Hornby J15: in RTR terms, it's the smoothest runner at low speed I have, out of any UK profile stock that is. 

If you start including continental locos from the likes of Fleischmann, Roco or Brawa for instance, you raise the bar dramatically...