RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 17, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2018 Laziness really. It's easier if they all move as one unit. Glue the buffers together? Yes, this is supposed to be a serious suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landscapes Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 (edited) Next we see the arrival of the 5.00pm from KX, another menial duty for a local Pacific. 505 1.JPG Those wagons do the job again. This shot looks all wrong without that "scenic break". The next one is very familiar, but worth revisiting now and again. 505 2.JPG Hi Gilbert I must say I do like those shots you do of looking under the bridge, that is one very nice structure and a big congratulations to who ever made it for you. And the locomotive in the picture is very good as well another Thompson special. Regards David Edited May 17, 2018 by landscapes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Those wagons do the job again. This shot looks all wrong without that "scenic break". The next one is very familiar, but worth revisiting now and again. Yes, they make quite a difference, a definite plus. Can I suggest that the next time you shoot a view like this you adjust things so that there is no visual gap between the end of the rake of wagons and the front of the loco (So you can't see the end of the rake)? Chaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2018 Glue the buffers together? Yes, this is supposed to be a serious suggestion. I hadn't thought of that, but yes, it would work, wouldn't it? I'm busy today, but I may experiment tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 17, 2018 Yes, they make quite a difference, a definite plus. Can I suggest that the next time you shoot a view like this you adjust things so that there is no visual gap between the end of the rake of wagons and the front of the loco (So you can't see the end of the rake)? Chaz The problem is that I haven't quite got enough yet Chaz. I juggled things around on this, but couldn't get it quite right. If I moved the loco up a bit to close that gap, it started to merge with the underside of the bridge, and if I moved the wagons along to close the gap that end, another one appeared at the other. The problem will cease to exist shortly though, as his duckiness has offered me some that he doesn't need any more, and he will, all being well, be visiting next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2018 We've just seen one New England Pacific engaged on menial duties, and almost immediately another appears. Duke of Rothesay has another local from Grantham, but at least it gets a slightly more respectable load behind the tender. moments later, the two locos meet. 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Laziness really. It's easier if they all move as one unit. Push rather than Pull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 17, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2018 A long but very good meeting tonight, so just quick photos. 60505 coming off its train. While 60508 will have to take its own stock down to the carriage sidings, but first the N5 has the task of shunting 60505's stock from Platform 3 to Platform 6, where it will become a Grantham local later on. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 We've just seen one New England Pacific engaged on menial duties, and almost immediately another appears. Duke of Rothesay has another local from Grantham, but at least it gets a slightly more respectable load behind the tender. Duke 1.JPG moments later, the two locos meet. Duke and 505.JPG Ballast colour looks spot on in these two pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 Hi Gilbert I must say I do like those shots you do of looking under the bridge, that is one very nice structure and a big congratulations to who ever made it for you. And the locomotive in the picture is very good as well another Thompson special. Regards David The two stalwarts were involved David. Peter Leyland made the bridge, and Tim did the Thompson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 Ballast colour looks spot on in these two pictures. I'm very pleased with it, and it shows no signs of fading. Just a few more bits to be filled in and tidied up really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 The N5 has coupled up, and is moving forward prior to propelling the stock into Platform 6. Then I tried a longer range shot, mainly infrastructure, but with some activity in the distance. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted May 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 We ended up at Weston Super Mare, took a trip back to Temple Meads to see Westerns, Got summarily ejected from Bath Road Depot...only place I've ever been sworn at before I could even ask permission to go round. Running foreman must have been having a bad day. Bath Road was a fortress with the most aggressive foreman I ever encountered. Maybe he had had incidents there or maybe he/they was/were just 'orrible anyway? St Phillip's marsh was great and Barrow Road wasn't too bad. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted May 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted May 18, 2018 Not sure about this. What do you think? 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Not sure about this. What do you think? N5 front.JPG Nice photo, but strange loco! Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 Nice photo, but strange loco! Stewart That's what I thought. The camera has been at it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted May 18, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 Not sure about this. What do you think? N5 front.JPG Looks good to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 18, 2018 Tonight we are going to watch the Holme pick up as it travels along the Down slow. This features another triumph for the camera. I couldn't believe that lamp beneath the buffer beam when I saw the image, and when I picked up the loco up I couldn't at first see it. It had somehow managed to attach itself to the chassis some way back, but of course the camera gleefully spots it and makes it look obvious. It is not there any more. Even worse on the second one, but they are otherwise nice shots that didn't need photoshopping, so we will have to try to ignore it. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 G'Day Folks Sorry 'G' I couldn't help but give a laugh when I saw the lamp under the loco, bits fall off, and half the time we don't know where they go, I found a set (one) of steps off of a loco whilst cleaning the track, but every loco has all there steps, so no idea where it's come from, think I'll have to build another loco for it. manna 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWsTrains Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 (edited) We ended up at Weston Super Mare, took a trip back to Temple Meads to see Westerns, Got summarily ejected from Bath Road Depot...only place I've ever been sworn at before I could even ask permission to go round. Running foreman must have been having a bad day. Ha, Bradshaw's guide has very few kind things to say about W-s-M (FWIW; my birthplace) and I suspect would have even fewer for an offal plant east of Doncaster if it was there back then. I'd have been asking for a refund as you surely got a raw deal (sorry for the pun!) Colin Edited May 19, 2018 by BWsTrains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 (edited) Not sure about this. What do you think? N5 front.JPG Excellent shot. Just one little niggle - it would look even better if that line of wagons seemed to continue - the N5's smokebox should fully overlap them. The very presence of a gap draws ones attention to the blank edge that you have put the wagons there to deal with. Chaz Edited May 19, 2018 by chaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevea Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Bath Road was a fortress with the most aggressive foreman I ever encountered. Maybe he had had incidents there or maybe he/they was/were just 'orrible anyway? St Phillip's marsh was great and Barrow Road wasn't too bad. Phil Bath Road was a fortress with the most aggressive foreman I ever encountered. Maybe he had had incidents there or maybe he/they was/were just 'orrible anyway? St Phillip's marsh was great and Barrow Road wasn't too bad. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevea Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 In slightly more recent years, Crofty at Immingham shed was as bad. Used to tell you to clear off, then one day he followed us back to the exit, having second-guessed our plan 'b', and before we'd gone 20 yards alongside the gas pipes to get what numbers we could from outside, off railway property, he told us to clear off from there, too. . In slightly more recent years, Crofty at Immingham shed was as bad. Used to tell you to clear off, then one day he followed us back to the exit, having second-guessed our plan 'b', and before we'd gone 20 yards alongside the gas pipes to get what numbers we could from outside, off railway property, he told us to clear off from there, too. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevea Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Apologies for pressing reply key twice - I'll get used to it eventually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted May 19, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2018 Excellent shot. Just one little niggle - it would look even better if that line of wagons seemed to continue - the N5's smokebox should fully overlap them. The very presence of a gap draws ones attention to the blank edge that you have put the wagons there to deal with. Chaz More on the way shortly Chaz. A £3000 quote for relining my leaking pond has forced a slight change of priorities in the short term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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