Elmore

[CameronL]

12 hours ago, Johndc120 said:

are you sure Yeltsin was a 6T?

That's got to be the auto-correct blooper of the day.

[Johndc120]

The end is in sight for this project

 

These are a pair of pollen E wagons, completely designed by myself and 3D printed in resin. It’s taken several attempts but after purchasing a 72xx I thought I’d better finish the train it’s supposed to be pulling

 

 

The girder is just a temporary one made using wills varigirder kit. I’ll try and do something a bit better looking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it’s nice just seeing the wheels through the gaps on the wheel boxes. I’ve tried to get this to work for OO gauge as well but it really doesn’t look as good as the wheel boxes have to be much bigger reducing the gap between

[MrWolf]

Very impressive work John. I do like that people on here are trying to build something different and putting in so much effort.

[5BarVT]

Very good!

Out of interest, when empty, would they have been coupled together at the inner ends?  Would that have been a bar type coupling owing to the lack of buffers?

Paul.

[Johndc120]

5 hours ago, 5BarVT said:

Very good!

Out of interest, when empty, would they have been coupled together at the inner ends?  Would that have been a bar type coupling owing to the lack of buffers?

Paul.

 

Thanks Paul,

 

yes exactly right, they were coupled with a solid bar to link them together, the bar was often left on one of the ends when not in use so to not use it which can be seen in this picture

 

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/gwrgirdwagpollen/h1608dcb5

 

I have designed this feature in so eventually I’ll probably do a second set but empty and connected together to represent the return working 

 

john

[Johndc120]

This is the other option for the full train, I’ve converted and fitted couplings for the vans either end. I’ve also added a bogie bolster, this was sometimes used to help the return of the pollen wagons and they were loaded on top once they were empty, I think this way it makes a more interesting train

 

 

 

I will need a pair of spare bolsters though to fit on when the girder is removed

[Johndc120]

More layout testing and operator practice.

 

Today’s visit to Elmore was a regular B-set, this time with a cattle van for the loading dock

 

 

 

 

once arrived at Elmore the loco in couples, picks up the rotank wagon from the siding and puts the cattle wagon on the dock before departing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the foreground more layout work can be seen as the platform faces are now being painted

[Andy Keane]

8 hours ago, Johndc120 said:

More layout testing and operator practice.

 

Today’s visit to Elmore was a regular B-set, this time with a cattle van for the loading dock

 

 

 

 

once arrived at Elmore the loco in couples, picks up the rotank wagon from the siding and puts the cattle wagon on the dock before departing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the foreground more layout work can be seen as the platform faces are now being painted

Looking very impressive. What make / model 3D printer are you using?

[Johndc120]

On 14/04/2023 at 08:06, Andy Keane said:

Looking very impressive. What make / model 3D printer are you using?

Thank you Andy, The resin printer is an anycubic photon mono 4K. It’s been brilliant to fair to it. Hardly any fussing with it required

[Johndc120]

A bit of an unusual work bench project for this week, it’s a Hornby railroad GWR county class which happens to be one of my favourite locos (don’t ask!! 🤣)

 

anyway 1955 is a bit late for the county class but not one for facts getting in the way of a nice project this is my repaint! 
 

I am still waiting for the name and number plates

 

 

 

 

[MrWolf]

Visitors to my thread may have noticed a recently acquired Railroad (loco drive) County lurking in the background of the autotrailer build shots.

The plan is to detail it and construct a new tender on a pair of cut down Saint bogies to represent County of Leicester in her last days hauling the water cart tender originally from The Great Bear.

I don't feel so bad about it now, I'm only stretching history to 1938!

 

Your model looks great and I like the way it's very much in the style of the Dukedogs that ran in BR days. A nice bit of What If?

[Johndc120]

On 25/04/2023 at 01:17, MrWolf said:

Visitors to my thread may have noticed a recently acquired Railroad (loco drive) County lurking in the background of the autotrailer build shots.

The plan is to detail it and construct a new tender on a pair of cut down Saint bogies to represent County of Leicester in her last days hauling the water cart tender originally from The Great Bear.

I don't feel so bad about it now, I'm only stretching history to 1938!

 

Your model looks great and I like the way it's very much in the style of the Dukedogs that ran in BR days. A nice bit of What If?

I’ll let you know if I do any 3D printed details and send you some. I will definitely be doing some sort of frame extensions to go under the buffer beam to hide the horrible gap above the bogie, also to keep the loco a bit straighter

 

my biggest headache at the moment is the over size cylinders as they strike the platforms 🤬…. Not sure reprinting cylinders was on my wish list!!! I also regret not cutting out the coal before painting it as it’s very full (a hang over from tender drive I suspect 

[MrWolf]

I had a similar problem when I rebuilt an old Tri-ang 2MT for a friend of mine. Only place I could run it was on the layout. One cylinder went straight up the platform ramp and it overturned.

 

The Prairies miss the platform ok as does the Mogul...

 

I'd better test run that old County!

[NHY 581]

I've always found these to be very attractive locos. 

 

And what's wrong with a what if ? 

 

 

Rob

 

 

 

[MrWolf]

58 minutes ago, NHY 581 said:

I've always found these to be very attractive locos. 

 

And what's wrong with a what if ? 

 

 

Rob

 

 

 

 

Exactly, many of our layouts are based on a thinner premise than "It didn't get scrapped until 1959".

My other excuse is that County 4-4-0s ran mostly on the LNW/GW joint when new.

All it needs is to turn West with a market or race day special.

 

Further to my previous post -

 

That's a relief!

 

[Johndc120]

14 hours ago, MrWolf said:

 

Exactly, many of our layouts are based on a thinner premise than "It didn't get scrapped until 1959".

My other excuse is that County 4-4-0s ran mostly on the LNW/GW joint when new.

All it needs is to turn West with a market or race day special.

 

Further to my previous post -

 

That's a relief!

 

I guess our platforms are a bit closer than yours then, everything else gets through okay and I’ve now just adjusted this to fit now.

 

as standard this is the measurement, clearly well over the 9’ maximum! 
 

the answer has been to cut a section out of the middle to allow them to be squeezed inward and glued, I’ve taken them down to 37.4 which is about the same as the new Hornby prairie (still over sized! But fits) as the running board is also over wide at 35.2 so if I take them to the correct 8’11 then they won’t stick out at all which would look wrong 

 

 

having done this a bit of surgery has been required to get the body to go down and fill a gap that was left in the top of the cylinders

 

 

the last thing designed today has been a frame extension to sit under the buffer beam and above the bogie. It’s a simple design but it should block some of the visible gap and also hold the loco straighter and therefore the front coupling which I want to mount to the body. I can get away with this because we have a 6’ minimum radius on the layout

 

[Johndc120]

15 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I've always found these to be very attractive locos. 

 

And what's wrong with a what if ? 

 

 

Rob

 

 

 

I’ve always had a thing for them and actually providing it’s done nicely a what if can be a good point of interest

Edited April 28, 2023 by Johndc120

[franciswilliamwebb]

15 hours ago, NHY 581 said:

I've always found these to be very attractive locos. 

 

Very much so.  Somewhere I have a kit built white metal "County of Cornwall" kept for reasons of nostalgia, but I'd love an Accurascale-style modern equivalent👍

[MrWolf]

2 hours ago, Johndc120 said:

I’ve always had a thing for them and actually providing it’s done nicely a what if can be a good point of interest

 

I set my platforms so that an old Mainline Toad would just clear its footsteps and the Bachmann 45xx would do likewise, by sheer good fortune, I squeezed in the point rods for the loop!

[Johndc120]

Elmore station Ground frame getting a lick of paint, the cupboard for the annetts key machine is yet to be finished but they were usually white. I will be painting the hinges roof and the concrete supports over the next few days

the levers are from a spring side signal box interior kit as they are beautifully cast 

 

 

[5BarVT]

On 22/05/2023 at 12:13, Johndc120 said:

usually white.

Black roof?  Or was that just a later/Bristol Division thing?  X phone plate? Or, again, not in your period.

And my photos are all from the back so I can’t say if the ‘shelf’ was different.

But looking very nice as is.

Paul.

[Johndc120]

Ground frame finished and stuck down in place.

 

the last photo shows the connections to the A end with the FPL

 

 

 

 

[Graham T]

That looks very tidy 🙂

 

Who supplied the various rodding components please John?

 

[Johndc120]

22 minutes ago, Graham T said:

That looks very tidy 🙂

 

Who supplied the various rodding components please John?

 

Thank you Graham, the rodding stools are by modelu and the rods are 0,4mm nickel silver wire. 
 

the cranks were my own design and prints taken from the BR drawings, since doing this I’ve helped modelu out to release his own cranks so they are available that way. The concrete legs which the cranks sit on are again my own prints but I’m not sure if these are available yet

[Graham T]

Thanks John, useful to know.  I used the Wills kits on Chuffnell Regis, which look ok (well, better than nothing), but would prefer to use something finer on my next layout.