Curlew Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 I'd guess the L&YR 0-4-4T https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p820151419/e18961e66 Might the left hand diesel in the background be the Emu Bay NB 0-8-0, or at least something similar? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 8, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2023 Correct about the L&Y, will be No.14 in EM gauge. Way out with the diesels but that NBL 0-8-0 is very interesting - any more info about it? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Michael Edge said: Correct about the L&Y, will be No.14 in EM gauge. Way out with the diesels but that NBL 0-8-0 is very interesting - any more info about it? Didn't something similar run on the 4'-0'' gauge Tharsis Railway in Spain; (same area as the Rio Tinto)? I had a guided tour of the Tharsis Railway back in the 1970s - plenty of North British locos in evidence. (The Tharsis Railway and mines were Glasgow-owned). John Isherwood. Edited January 8, 2023 by cctransuk 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curlew Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 2 hours ago, Michael Edge said: Correct about the L&Y, will be No.14 in EM gauge. Way out with the diesels but that NBL 0-8-0 is very interesting - any more info about it? 1953 built, to 3ft 6in gauge. There are other photos on the web, just search 'Emu Bay Railway'. It had a few mods over time including extra windows in the cab rear, I think. The cab looks similar to one of your BR kits. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Is that a Sentinel 0-8-0 lurking at the back? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 8, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2023 3 hours ago, Curlew said: 1953 built, to 3ft 6in gauge. There are other photos on the web, just search 'Emu Bay Railway'. It had a few mods over time including extra windows in the cab rear, I think. The cab looks similar to one of your BR kits. Thanks for that, it’s in the same style as the BR D2700, I knew there was an 0-6-0 in this style but not about an 0-8-0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 8, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 8, 2023 1 hour ago, pete_mcfarlane said: Is that a Sentinel 0-8-0 lurking at the back? Yes, I’ve finally made a start on this test etch, this is the long wheelbase version as built for Normanby Park. A slight complication with this variety is that they seem to have been run without the centre portion of the coupling rods so it will need two motors. I do have a photo of one at Kilnhurst with all axles coupled though. I was intending to do the better known short wheelbase version first (Ebbw Vale, Moor Green colliery and MoD) but the test etch didn’t have short footplate. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) On 08/01/2023 at 13:06, Michael Edge said: This month's test track photo shows a bit less than usual but some new work. The N2 is still here, waiting for the customer to collect it, the SR 0-6-0DE is substantially finished now but still waiting for sandbox patterns to be made. In between some kit development and the next job - no prizes but does anyone know what they are yet? Is that a Steelman chassis on the back row? I can't remember if you have mentioned if before, Mike, but can we see some more of the drive arrangement and is that something that you will be including in the kit? Edited January 9, 2023 by Ruston Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 9, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 9, 2023 The Steelman is on an etched version of the Bullant drive which was designed for this kit but is no longer available. We have been supplying this etch with the Steelman recently but the kit is currently out of stock. I’ll put some pictures on tomorrow - I think I’ve posted them before but they have probably been lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 10, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 10, 2023 Photos of the Steelman frame, I think I've put these on before but they have probably been lost. The etch reproduces the Bullant including its fixing system and uses .5 module plastic gears. The motor needs to be quite short to fit in the Steelman engine casing, this is the small square motor. This etch has been included in the most recent kits we have supplied not including motor/gears/wheels. This is an earlier test with a cheap Chinese motor which later failed, both had more than enough power but do run rather quickly (as does the Bullant). We have also supplied this compensated frame, although with no suggestions as to how to power it. I had to build the loco this far to make sure it fitted, it's out on the test track because I thought I might as well finish it now. This is a reduction of a 7mm etch for this loco which I've not got round to building yet. In 7mm it's easy to couple the axles with delrin chain but it's a very tight squeeze to do it in 00. 10 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Michael Edge Posted January 20, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2023 Another EM1 on the way. This will be much the same as the black one behind, bogie etch as before but linked with 1/16" pcb this time. As before this will be fitted in the centre part of a resin moulded body but with the etched cabs added. Mitsumi motors, Gibson wheels and .5 module worm gears, no compensation this time for comparison with 26001. The green one at left is the whole resin body on these bogies and has DS10 motors with Romford 20:1 gears. I bought two of these moulded bodies for £5 each thinking that it might be a quick way to get more EM1s but I'm not going to do any more, I think building the test etch body will be quicker. Just opening out the bodyside windows takes long enough! This is the sum total of EM1s available for Wentworth Junction, there's also 26510 and an EM2 but to replace all the steam locos currently on the layout will take another 12 EM1s...... 20 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 20, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Michael Edge said: Another EM1 on the way. This will be much the same as the black one behind, bogie etch as before but linked with 1/16" pcb this time. As before this will be fitted in the centre part of a resin moulded body but with the etched cabs added. Mitsumi motors, Gibson wheels and .5 module worm gears, no compensation this time for comparison with 26001. The green one at left is the whole resin body on these bogies and has DS10 motors with Romford 20:1 gears. I bought two of these moulded bodies for £5 each thinking that it might be a quick way to get more EM1s but I'm not going to do any more, I think building the test etch body will be quicker. Just opening out the bodyside windows takes long enough! This is the sum total of EM1s available for Wentworth Junction, there's also 26510 and an EM2 but to replace all the steam locos currently on the layout will take another 12 EM1s...... If only somebody brought out an etched kit! Mike. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 20, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2023 Wait for the next one Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John76 Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 10 hours ago, Michael Edge said: Another EM1 on the way. This will be much the same as the black one behind, bogie etch as before but linked with 1/16" pcb this time. As before this will be fitted in the centre part of a resin moulded body but with the etched cabs added. Mitsumi motors, Gibson wheels and .5 module worm gears, no compensation this time for comparison with 26001. The green one at left is the whole resin body on these bogies and has DS10 motors with Romford 20:1 gears. I bought two of these moulded bodies for £5 each thinking that it might be a quick way to get more EM1s but I'm not going to do any more, I think building the test etch body will be quicker. Just opening out the bodyside windows takes long enough! This is the sum total of EM1s available for Wentworth Junction, there's also 26510 and an EM2 but to replace all the steam locos currently on the layout will take another 12 EM1s...... Mike I used a milling machine to open out the body side windows. It was a lot quicker and you get consistent openings. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted January 21, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2023 16 hours ago, Michael Edge said: Wait for the next one Mike. Oh heck, be still my beating heart! Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted January 21, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2023 12 hours ago, John76 said: Mike I used a milling machine to open out the body side windows. It was a lot quicker and you get consistent openings. John I drilled a hole in each corner, then cut deep into the sides with a scalpel before milling a slot across and breaking the bits out. I have seen some of these, possibly sold by Silver Fox, with the side windows just painted black.... It's not very easy to glaze these windows now either, especially with ledges fitted inside the body to bolt the pcb to. Anyway, definitely no more, next one will be all etched apart from the cab roofs which will remain resin mouldings. 2 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Michael Edge Posted February 2, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 2, 2023 The rest of the EM1 now ready for assembly. Two etched cabs and the moulded roof, we had run out of handrail pillars so these are made in my old fashioned way with soldered wire. The moulding for the control desk is done now, I'll fit these in 26001 as well now, latest one will be 26013 as it ran up the Worsborough branch on an RCTS special in the early 50s. I'll move the description of the next (all etched one) to the kits thread since that will be a proper kit prototype. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted February 3, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2023 The test track is getting back to its normal crowded state. The 7mm N2 is still here awaiting collection but I've done quite a bit on the Barry 0-8-2T - now the boiler is on it's downhill all the way. EM1s still clogging the place up but I'll get 26013 finished as soon as I get some buffers for it. Next up two of Robert Thompson's dirt cans (very nice kit) followed by another diesel shunter (anyone any idea what this one is? - prototype and scale?) and the previously identified L&Y 0-4-4T. The last one should be finished next week, work had stopped while I waited for a Roadrunner+ gearbox, the motor/gearbox I had lined up for it wouldn't fit in the boiler. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir douglas Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 interesting, something centre cab, jack shaft and scale somewhere between 4 and 7mm S scale maybe? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 3, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, sir douglas said: interesting, something centre cab, jack shaft and scale somewhere between 4 and 7mm S scale maybe? Ah, possibly some NZ jobby - 1/64 scale, 16.5mm gauge? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted February 3, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 3, 2023 2 hours ago, St Enodoc said: Ah, possibly some NZ jobby - 1/64 scale, 16.5mm gauge? getting closer.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted February 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2023 10 hours ago, Michael Edge said: getting closer.... Hmm, perhaps something from our side of the Ditch then - WA, SA or QLD? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Michael Edge Posted February 4, 2023 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2023 colder this time.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 21C123 Posted February 4, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 4, 2023 morning Looks like an NZR Hillside built Tr shunting tractor to me. Roger 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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