RMweb Gold fishytrains Posted March 25, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2013 The forecourt are is really coming alive. Gray Trains buildings are absolutely stunning. The photos are fantastic as well. Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwealleans Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I'm very pleased you've been able to find employment for them, Gilbert and you're right, pottering about in the flat knacker link is far more my level than all this galloping up and down in curiously named and shaped Pacifics. I shall endeavour to make sure they are continuing to give satisfaction in person before too long. WRT that cassette; the problem with high sided cassettes is that you can't get your fingers in to rerail stock, especially coaches. Some sort of rerailing arrangement at the ends might be worth investigating. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetleys Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 WRT that cassette; the problem with high sided cassettes is that you can't get your fingers in to rerail stock, especially coaches. Some sort of rerailing arrangement at the ends might be worth investigating. I echo your thoughts on the re-railing aspect of Gilbert's cassettes but hopefully when he and I manage to get together at Ancaster 'Plant' as warmer weather arrives we can fine tune the design, I'm sure Gilbert won't mind me saying that like most modellers he has limited access to the sort of woodworking tools some of us take for granted. I have the necessary power tools and I'm sure between us we will put together a light weight and user friendly cassette without resorting to aluminium section which I suspect will be quite expensive. Dave 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 I appreciate what you are saying Dave about the price of Aluminium section, but if anyone is after the said Aluminium section a good place to look is the website of this company "Aluminium Warehouse". I know several people who have used them and they have all been very pleased. Regards ,Del. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetleys Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I appreciate what you are saying Dave about the price of Aluminium section, but if anyone is after the said Aluminium section a good place to look is the website of this company "Aluminium Warehouse". I know several people who have used them and they have all been very pleased. Regards ,Del. Del, I have no experience of cassettes in wood or aluminium although the latter is used on exhibition layouts and I maintain an open mind, perhaps Gilbert can research pricing and supply but I'm sure that whatever medium he chooses my workshop remains at his disposal, I have a good pillar drill and other useful tools and once the warmer weather arrives we can start production. I'm just glad I'm Gilbert's mate and not his accountant, this post and we members seem to be conspiring against his bank account, if it's not another 'must have B17' it's another dozen coaches! Dave 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 28, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2013 Re Gilbert's accounts, maybe we need to start a 'co-op? style association? Quack. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gresley Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Del, I have no experience of cassettes in wood or aluminium although the latter is used on exhibition layouts and I maintain an open mind, perhaps Gilbert can research pricing and supply but I'm sure that whatever medium he chooses my workshop remains at his disposal, I have a good pillar drill and other useful tools and once the warmer weather arrives we can start production. I'm just glad I'm Gilbert's mate and not his accountant, this post and we members seem to be conspiring against his bank account, if it's not another 'must have B17' it's another dozen coaches! Dave Dave, I can think of worse things to overload the bank account. B 17 AND another dozen coaches ? Is that all ????? Stuart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Grafarman Posted March 28, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2013 Del, I have no experience of cassettes in wood or aluminium although the latter is used on exhibition layouts and I maintain an open mind, perhaps Gilbert can research pricing and supply but I'm sure that whatever medium he chooses my workshop remains at his disposal, I have a good pillar drill and other useful tools and once the warmer weather arrives we can start production. Dave Only cassettes I know of are made of plastic and carry a threaded spool of magnetic tape, and when you insert them into a 'Walkman' there eminates various noises some would associate with music; ah, those were the days...!! Getting older by the day hour David 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Only cassettes I know of are made of plastic and carry a threaded spool of magnetic tape, and when you insert them into a 'Walkman' there eminates various noises some would associate with music; ah, those were the days...!! Getting older by the day hour David I can see it now: the modelling kids of tomorrow scratching their heads, trying to find which volume Yeadons the C-90 is profiled in... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted March 29, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 29, 2013 It has been a very busy week. The layout had its first International visitor on Monday, in the shape of our Canadian member Jim Theaker, and no, he didn't come over just to see PN., but it was great to meet up with him, and recall old times on the railways of Lincolnshire. Tuesday's visitor was Tim, who as usual came bearing goodies. He also sorted out some irritating running problems for me, in particular the constant derailments of the Tees Tyne pullman set, which had been causing many complaints from passengers who had had their soup dumped in their laps. Runs smooth as silk now. A lot was achieved over a couple of days, so many thanks Tim. Oh yes, what goodies? I hear you ask. My B17/6 is now a March engine, and in a condition of which Andy Rush may approve. Why the name plate, which was pin sharp on the photo, is now illegible after shopping I do not know. It says Huddersfield Town, if you can't read it. We also have another loco for the Leicester trains, which is good in view of the complete failure of my Hornby Stanier tank. A very handsome little beast this. Fortunately Derby shed still had one in good running order in 1958, and I have photos of Derby locos on these trains, so I was able to justify it, and Tim has done his usual lovely job on both this one and the B17. 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted March 29, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 29, 2013 And now to cassettes, which merit a separate post. Thanks to all who have contributed views and advice first of all.. Tim also helped me set up the spur to which the cassettes will be attached, and fortunately it turned out to be a simple job. The gradient up to the level of the cassette is very gentle, and the concept worked perfectly. My trial cassette, as I already knew, was not quite perfectly built, being slightly off square. I am utterly confident of my ability to build subsequent ones which aren't quite right either, but not at all confident of replicating the same fault each time, so I think I shall have to wait until I can take up Dave's offer of help before doing more. So, the whole thing is set up to accomodate properly built cassettes, which with Dave's expertise and equipment I'm sure we shall achieve. I have one of those bright red plastic Hornby rerailing devices, which does work, so what will happen is that the stock will be put into a cassette, and once there it will remain, except when decanted onto or off the layout. Experimentation shows that no derailments occur when lifting the cassettes on or off, so the inability to get fingers down the sides should not be a problem.. Each cassette will be tailor made for the stock it is to carry, the longest being 46 inches long. Even that length is neither heavy to lift nor unwieldy, and this method of construction does give me confidence that nothing is going to take an expensive tumble to the floor, so I think I will stick with this, rather than aluminium angle. I shall also try hard to resist the temptation to acquire too much more stock, though Tim is already running a campaign for the Yorkshire Pullman. The amount of wood needed to make all the cassettes I've already decided I need will be expensive enough in itself, plus the track....... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Bachmann's Compound is the model of the year, nay Century for me! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
foster104 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 I can see it now: the modelling kids of tomorrow scratching their heads, trying to find which volume Yeadons the C-90 is profiled in... ...must be a very obscure Victorian ex-GNSR 4-4-2 tank engine I've never heard of... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianwales Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Hi Gilbert Ref the cassettes and stock derailing while in transit, I have an article somewhere, which I can't find at present, wher the writer mentions he puts a strip of plasticard of the cotrrect back to back gauge down the "four foot" of the cassette and the wheels of the stock then just drop into the gap, a sort of automatic rerailer. if they do derail in transit just move the stock slightly from side to side and the wheel find the gap and rerail themselves. Ian 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted March 29, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2013 My B17/6 is now a March engine, and in a condition of which Andy Rush may approve. Why the name plate, which was pin sharp on the photo, is now illegible after shopping I do not know. It says Huddersfield Town, if you can't read it. Click on the pic to enlarge to full size and the nameplate is superbly clear and crisp 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Click on the pic to enlarge to full size and the nameplate is superbly clear and crisp As are those 4-bolt fishplates, which I have never noticed until now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Current Railway Modeller has a article on making cassettes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted March 30, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 30, 2013 Click on the pic to enlarge to full size and the nameplate is superbly clear and crisp How peculiar! Can any of our camera experts tell me why that might be? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted March 30, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted March 30, 2013 Current Railway Modeller has a article on making cassettes. Thanks Mick. I don't usually buy it, but I will make an exception this month. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 30, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 30, 2013 How peculiar! Can any of our camera experts tell me why that might be? I am anything but expert, but when a picture is reduced in size some of the data has to be "lost" to make it smaller. In this case, the algorithm for doing so was obviously written by a supporter of a rival team! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted March 31, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 31, 2013 "Train of the day" rather than shot of the day this time. This is the 1100 KX- Glasgow, headed by one of those new fangled diesel thingies. Apologies at once for the bare front end. I have put the detailing parts provided somewhere safe. This train changed engines here, and the relieving Newcastle A4 is waiting in the bay. The Railway Observer tells me that such duties were used for crew training, the return trip usually being on a stopping train, so that's what is going on here. It is so nice to have some good daylight that isn't shining directly in. Must go, I've forgotten to put my dinner in the oven. 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Top hole Gilbert old chappy but I'm having a trouser problem here........ I mean bally Jerry may have pranged his kite right in the how's your father...... Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie sure, but I'm dashed if I swallow those septic Type 4's were as darned crappy as that in 1958 when the Whitehall gangsters were parashootink our dosh all over English Electric and Brush like a blasted rash! Didn't blithering Caruthers at the BTC tell us those zing zang oil gobblers were a spiffing wheeze to keep clean...? Not to be taken seriously.. Edited March 31, 2013 by coachmann 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted March 31, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2013 I'm sorry, I don't understand your banter...... From a John Cleese training film I saw when being trained to be an officer or a gentlemen, I think???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted March 31, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Hi Gilbert I am pleased to see the young lads on the end of the platform are being educated in what should be at the front end of any train. Edited March 31, 2013 by Clive Mortimore 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy M Posted March 31, 2013 Share Posted March 31, 2013 Hi Gilbert, I have to agree with Coachman that for 1958 the EE Type4 is far too dirty..........and dare I say the Gateshead A4 is too clean! Great images as always and I particularly like your Huddersfield Town, top choice sir! Regards, Andy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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