RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 27, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2015 All very well, but think of the cost of constantly having to renew the battery in the smoke alarm. I think I'll pass on the smoke and flames. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted January 27, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2015 Not doing much at present, till the antibiotics and ear drops get to grips with the infection, and the temperature of 101, which I wish the doctor hadn't mentioned. No wonder I haven't been feeling too good. Never mind, it will soon be gone. To pass the time, I ran trains, and, a bit too late as usual, took some photos when the light had nearly gone. An early afternoon Inverkeithing - KX goods class C passes a rare Heaton A3 waiting to take over the Down Heart of Midlothian. The V2 is one of New England's own, which has just taken over, well out of sight of the spotters, from something they would much rather have seen. This is included only because it took me so long to photoshop the signals, otherwise it would have joined several more in the recycle bin. More light closer to the window, so this one came out a bit better, though the brightness needed boosting a fair bit. A single chimney A3 is indeed a thing of beauty. As is this B17, waiting patiently for something to do. Time for more ear drops. 27 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 28, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 28, 2015 Heaton magic and a GE (?) beauty.......nice. Not really noticed before how good the weathering is on that water tower. P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) I clicked on this thread and at first glance, thought the top picture, with the A3 and V2, was real. The colours and weathering just look...right. Edited January 28, 2015 by JeffP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 29, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 I have seen the light. Coachmann is correct, more emphasis needs to be put on rolling stock, so I have had a good hard look at my locomotive needs, to see if I can free up some cash to fund the purchase of some more coaches. I have three station pilots. There should be two, and there isn't really work for three, so why did locoholism persuade me to have two C12's? I have decided that one can go, and was about to put it on E Bay, when I remembered how gratifying it was to see Dave Shakespeare's stock going to people on RMWeb, several of whom have become on line friends as a result. So I have decided to offer the C12 on here first -it really would be great to know that it was going to someone I "know" at least through the forum. Here are some photos then, and if anyone is interested, please send me a PM. The loco was professionally built painted and weathered by John Houlden from the SE Finecast kit. My memory isn't what it was, but we standardised on Mashima motors and High Level gearboxes, so I'm pretty sure that is what is in there. It is fitted with a TCS decoder, but can be restored to DC running if required. Kadee couplings are fitted at buffer beam height. 67397 was one of the very last to be withdrawn, from Grantham shed in late 1958. Should anyone feel that what I am doing is inappropriate, I apologise. I'm not trying to put pressure on anyone, and if no-one wants it it will go on E Bay as originally intended. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Gilbert nothing inappropriate there at all - I can't find any sign of a C12 ever working on the Waverley Route or I'd be in there bidding! Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 29, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2015 Carry on Gilbert - your thread and some of us like it so much we're hardly going to moan when you make offers like that. Regrettably tho' pretty little ex GN tank engines were on a par with the commonality of hens' teeth in Wales and The Marches. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 G, I hope you didn't have to go to Torksey! Heavy snow here in 36E this morning. Good excuse for you to run the EC schedule I expect? I should be coach hacking but instead I am putting myself through torture by watching tennis and Mr Murray stressing me out! As it is snowing 'hard' again I shall probably not go to the Gym either and so I shall probably get my note pad and books out & pretend to know what I'm going to do to convert some tenders for my 'Packets'. C12....Seaton Junction......sorry! P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Little known useless fact Phil - Torksey Caravans offer the cheapest prices on the web for Elddis 'vans - we've been considering getting back into the hobby and web research discovered this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Anotheran Posted January 29, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 29, 2015 Hi Gilbert, You've got a fairly hefty following at 177, but it may be worth you posting your loco in the Classified section of the site to give it an even wider audience. Though I think you need to set a price on there in advance. Looks a lovely loco, but as Mike pointed out, I don't think I'd have seen one in West Wales, so it's not for me. Kind regards, Neil 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AireValley1962 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 LMR and limited funds here for me, or I'd offer. I agree with Neil, too, classifieds might help out. Cheers, William 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 You might find someone would swap coaches (or part swap/pay) for this little loco? However they would need to have rather a lot surplus! On the subject of coaches may I ask a few questions in open posting here whilst we wallow in the glory of a Murray win! He does make things hard sometimes; wonder if he can play golf? Lovely sun at 36E now. Gresley Open Thirds(2nds). Can anyone confirm that any D27s got cascaded to secondary duties in the early 60s? Also did this happen to the later D186s. I've read somewhere that older open stock was often 'shunted off' to special and excursion traffic. Gilbert will understand why I'm asking this (that bloomin' Cleethorpes/Sidmouth train again!!) Finally, are any of Hornby's products supposed to be D186s and if not which one(s) would be easiest to covert using etched sides? Thanks, Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 29, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 You might find someone would swap coaches (or part swap/pay) for this little loco? However they would need to have rather a lot surplus! On the subject of coaches may I ask a few questions in open posting here whilst we wallow in the glory of a Murray win! He does make things hard sometimes; wonder if he can play golf? Lovely sun at 36E now. Gresley Open Thirds(2nds). Can anyone confirm that any D27s got cascaded to secondary duties in the early 60s? Also did this happen to the later D186s. I've read somewhere that older open stock was often 'shunted off' to special and excursion traffic. Gilbert will understand why I'm asking this (that bloomin' Cleethorpes/Sidmouth train again!!) Finally, are any of Hornby's products supposed to be D186s and if not which one(s) would be easiest to covert using etched sides? Thanks, Phil Hi Phil, Torksey was closed, so we didn't have to go, which was fortunate, as when we played at home instead we got a blizzard which dumped rather a lot of snow in a very short time. It was touch and go getting up the hill to get home! I'm thinking in terms of Ian Willets built specials so far as the coaches are concerned, which is why I'm looking to generate some funds. So far as cascading of Gresley carriages is concerned, I'm pretty sure that a lot of it would have been surplus to requirements by the '60s, and that they would be ideal for the Cleethorpes- Sidmouth. The Dia 186's I am certain about , they were ideal excursion/holiday stock. As to the Dia 27's, they were originally intended for dining, and I wouldn't have thought that train would have a Restaurant Car. If there was any catering at all, I'd expect it to be a buffet car. Having said that, they could have been used just as ordinary open seconds. The Dia 186 conversion I did with considerable assistance from TW had to be from a corridor coach, as Hornby don't do an open second. An FK or an SK would be the best donors, then you would just have to build an open interior. We can go further into that when you are next here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted January 29, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 Thanks folks for all the positive comments about the C12. I realised that it would be of no use to most regular contributors, though I did consider trying to spin Bigwordsmith a yarn about a C12 substituting for a failed Pacific at Grantham, and getting all the way to Haymarket, who then borrowed it for a trip across to Carlisle. I didn't think he'd swallow that though, so it will have to be the story about the unrecorded transfer to St Margarets, for use on the Peebles branch. They got their C12's and C16's mixed up you see. Easy to do - they did look a bit similar. Our Duck is of course sadly mistaken too. C12's were used from Seaton right up to the time of their withdrawal. I have a photograph in front of me right now, showing one waiting to leave Seaton ( Junction for Uppingham). So, again some one got a bit confused, and sent one to the other Seaton, down South. No? Worth a try. Actually, I have had two enquiries already about it, so it may be going to a follower of PN as I hoped. If not, I will try Classifieds, as suggested. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted January 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) D186 was a favourite; thanks. I'll source the 'best' sides for the job. As for the D27s I'll do a bit more 'digging'. I think they were usurped by either Thompsons or MK1s on the 'named' trains. Not sure what happened to the 27As without reading more stuff. I'm only chasing that Diagram as I have those two Turnbuckle UF Sleepers! I suppose I could do another RCAF........ but that involves more work internally! I have a couple of B & C FK/SK for the donor 186, so I can convert and paint maroon, as that is the livery of most of the Gresleys I've seen in my reference pics of them on the Southern from 1960/1/2. Seaton in Rutland was it? P Edited January 29, 2015 by Mallard60022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Richard E Posted January 29, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2015 Seaton in Rutland - for what is now a rural idyll there used to be a heck of a lot of railway around there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted February 1, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted February 1, 2015 Yesterday. No snow at all anywhere except at the top of the hill where I live. It seems that the 60 odd feet extra height was enough to turn sleet into snow during that overnight shower. Never mind though, as rain was forecast to get rid of it. The rain though was running three hours late. But, if there was no snow elsewhere, golf would not be affected, would it? Sadly, the golf course is a mile or so along the same ridge, so closed. Three hours later, bright sunlight, and green grass....too late. So I decided to do some alterations to the sequence. After an hour of that, and about the fifth time the ****** laptop scrambled text while I wasn't looking, I gave up on that. Didn't it occur to the designer that a system which allows a hand passed from one side of the keyboard to the other to mess everything up was not fit for purpose? The end result though was running of trains, and taking of photos. Then I sat far too long in front of the PC photoshopping, hence various errors and inadvertent erasing of chunks of buildings etc. Good day apart from all that. Here are the images, missing bits of roof, and all. Oh, I forgot to mention that it took me about six shots to notice that the camera white balance was set to white flourescent - I can't remember doing that - so the results in bright sunlight were "interesting". I've done my best to make them presentable. End of rant. A lot going on at the North end. It being the Friday before August Bank Holiday weekend, many trains are running in more than one part, including the Down Heart of Midlothian. Some engine changes at PN are needed, despite the difficulties that causes, so in the bay we have locos for both the relief and the main train. We also have that leaning signal again. Nothing I do seems to keep it upright, and it always moves while my back is turned. I said it was one of those days. I just happened to put the camera down here, and quite liked this view, which I don't think we've had before. Back to the main action now, as the KX A1 begins to move forward from the relief train. The cameraman will need to move pretty sharply too. Slightly out of sequence, a view of all that express power in a very small space. The spotters will want to know the numbers, though Bongrace and Amadis are every day sights. Bongrace pulls away, and heads for New England. Allowing this view of Pacific power. At the South end, the Inverkeithing goods is held at signals. But I had to try one more shot from the North. Why leave this one till last, when it requires so much photoshopping? And why not just give myself a break before tackling it? Oh no, I've started, so I'll finish. At least I had the sense not to post these last night. I'm going to play with my trains now. 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 So I decided to do some alterations to the sequence. After an hour of that, and about the fifth time the ****** laptop scrambled text while I wasn't looking, I gave up on that. Didn't it occur to the designer that a system which allows a hand passed from one side of the keyboard to the other to mess everything up was not fit for purpose? You do plug a wireless mouse into the laptop don't you? You do then disable the keyboard touchpad don't you? Failing that, put a thin piece of card over the touchpad when typing. Its usually the heel of you hands that brush the touchpad inadvertently. Excellent photos again Gilbert. It was always windy on platform 2 causing things to lean over much of the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2015 Lovely set of shots. I had great fun imaging all the chatter and noise at the north end. 5th one is great. Quackers. (About to go and get a kit to bash....honest.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted February 2, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2015 You do plug a wireless mouse into the laptop don't you? You do then disable the keyboard touchpad don't you? Failing that, put a thin piece of card over the touchpad when typing. Its usually the heel of you hands that brush the touchpad inadvertently. Excellent photos again Gilbert. It was always windy on platform 2 causing things to lean over much of the time. Erm..... The full extent of my knowledge of computers could easily be written on the head of a pin, with plenty of space to spare. 1.There isn't any space for a mouse to be put down, and I confess to not knowing what a wireless mouse is, or how it works. 2.I have no idea at all how to do this. 3. That sounds sufficiently low tech for me to be able to do it - thanks Mick. I have a complete horror of trying to do anything with a computer, as I know that if it doesn't turn out as it should I'm going to struggle to get things back to where they were previously. Even adding a new slide into my Powerpoint programme is a nightmare, even though I have been given a step by step idiot's guide as to how to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donington Road Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Erm..... The full extent of my knowledge of computers could easily be written on the head of a pin, with plenty of space to spare. 1.There isn't any space for a mouse to be put down, and I confess to not knowing what a wireless mouse is, or how it works. 2.I have no idea at all how to do this. 3. That sounds sufficiently low tech for me to be able to do it - thanks Mick. I have a complete horror of trying to do anything with a computer, as I know that if it doesn't turn out as it should I'm going to struggle to get things back to where they were previously. Even adding a new slide into my Powerpoint programme is a nightmare, even though I have been given a step by step idiot's guide as to how to do it. Wireless mouse. They will work on virtually any surface. I can sit in my armchair with the laptop and this one works on my leather chair arm, my thigh(wearing trousers!) and on the very small area next to the touchpad. As the mouse is optical it does not require much more area than its own footprint to operate. I really do recommend you use a mouse most of the time rather than the touchpad, you will wonder how you ever managed without one. If you have been photoshopping all those pictures using the touchpad I salute you for your endeavour. To switch off the touch pad it is usually a press of the fn key + one of the F keys along the top. My laptop is fn+F4. To turn back on is the same combination. It should tell you in your laptop manual. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I haven't visited Peterborough for a few days so i hope by now you have sold the surplus C12. I would have been sorely tempted by the GC N5 'pilot' and would have offered coaches for swaps! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted February 2, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2015 Wireless mouse. They will work on virtually any surface. I can sit in my armchair with the laptop and this one works on my leather chair arm, my thigh(wearing trousers!) and on the very small area next to the touchpad. As the mouse is optical it does not require much more area than its own footprint to operate. I really do recommend you use a mouse most of the time rather than the touchpad, you will wonder how you ever managed without one. If you have been photoshopping all those pictures using the touchpad I salute you for your endeavour. To switch off the touch pad it is usually a press of the fn key + one of the F keys along the top. My laptop is fn+F4. To turn back on is the same combination. It should tell you in your laptop manual. wireless mouse 1.jpg Many thanks Mick. I shall go in search of a wireless mouse. The laptop is in the raiway room, and is used solely to show the running sequence. All of the photoshopping etc is done on the PC downstairs - much more comfortable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigwordsmith Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Gilbert - you should just go and get a Mac - they just work - straight out of the box, no faffing around and hugely user-friendly 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 2, 2015 Gilbert - you should just go and get a Mac - they just work - straight out of the box, no faffing around and hugely user-friendly I though it wasn't raining today! Q Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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