Andy Y Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Just to keep the S&DJR sorts foaming. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian J. Posted July 25, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2010 I need a dribbling smiley, but this little one will have to do... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Bachmann needs a new painter! However, I'm with the crowd that's glad to see the pictures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 25, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 25, 2010 Just to keep the S&DJR sorts foaming. OK so I've just seen this and I realise that I must have konked out earlier and am now in HEAVEN. Wow! It looks really great and I'm having at least one even though they never ran anywhere near Exeter or Newcastle! 36E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebnoswal Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I model in N, but I'll be getting one of these Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDiesel Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I hope to eventually get one of these. Even thinking of getting the weathered version. Being an S&DJR modeller (and having a layout based on Wellow), one of these would be great. I've heard that Bachmann hopes to release these in October/November time? But I'm thinking it will be more like February/March ... and possibly even later here in Canada? Thanks, Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-BOAF Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 sorry to sound like a stuck record... cylinder or slide bar angles. I don't know the technical name for the casing that encloses the front of the piston (that protrudes from the cylinder front) - most UK locos don't have them, but it is definately at a different height/angle to the piston going in the back end! I don't know if the slide bar is too shallow, or cylinders too steep, but front/back piston HEIGHTs are definately different, and they shouldn't be. Today's models have great detail, but various 'errors' in alignments really highlight the input from people (in China) who seemingly have no knowledge of the prototype, and how it works. Come on Bachmann, sort it out BEFORE they enter production! I feel awful criticising two models in the same way, but it has to be said. There's perfection, and then there's silly errors. Other than that, and aside from very slightly chunky valve gear, looks lovely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted July 26, 2010 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 26, 2010 dOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE TIME TWO THEM DEPUTISED FOR A FAILED SEMI ON THE UP MID-DAY SCOT???? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 dOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE TIME TWO THEM DEPUTISED FOR A FAILED SEMI ON THE UP MID-DAY SCOT???? Was it foggy? Changing tack, I see that the return crank is correct (i.e. leaning backwards for outside admission valves) on the side shown. What's it like on the other side? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I model in N, but I'll be getting one of these Hey Ben. If you lay your N gauge double track very carefully so the distance between the adjacent rails is 16.5mm you'll have somewhere to run it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 To me, it looks fantastic! My only worry is that the crest is sorted out before production though i'm sure it will be! Cheers, John E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Oh my God that's good! (Although if the footplate's cast from Mazak/Zamac, I would be hoping that it doesn't disintegrate quite as spectacularly as the one on my "N" did! ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 I heard a rumour the LMS had tried out a S&DJR 2-8-0s on a coal train between Stalybridge and Huddersfield, pitted against a LYR Fat Nelly 0-8-0 and a choice-picked LNWR Super D 0-8-0 in 1924. The LYR Fat Nellie did what it was designed to do but got wedged in Diggle Tunnel. The S&DRJ 2-8-0 needed its axleboxes re-metalling before it reached Mossley, while the LNWR 0-8-0 did well to Diggle Tunnel then ran away beyond Marsden and dissapeared off the LMS radar. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 ...cylinder or slide bar angles. I don't know the technical name for the casing that encloses the front of the piston (that protrudes from the cylinder front) - most UK locos don't have them, but it is definately at a different height/angle to the piston going in the back end!... You are right, and the part you cannot name is a piston rod cover. For obvious reasons it is coaxial with the piston rod. Is there some way this can be communicated appropriately to Bachmann to be sorted out? It is a pretty glaring fault to anyone with a feeling for things mechanical, (even though such people will likely be able to correct it once they have the model in their hands). That apart though, the general charm of this machine is going to entail spending time with my eyes shut in model shops. Repeat the mantra 'No fit with my modelling ...'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Or even 'piston tail rod cover', which I thought were dispensed with by the 1950's - I will have to check the info. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Hilton Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Lovely - I said to Dad at the weekend that this is probably the only new steam engine I'm ever likely to buy - my Grandpa gave me the quartet of Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties/Sixties books 10+ years ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Flying Pig Posted July 26, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 26, 2010 Or even 'piston tail rod cover', which I thought were dispensed with by the 1950's - I will have to check the info. This picture indicates that they remained in at least one case. Edit: forgot to say what a lovely model! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I heard a rumour the LMS had tried out a S&DJR 2-8-0s on a coal train between Stalybridge and Huddersfield, pitted against a LYR Fat Nelly 0-8-0 and a choice-picked LNWR Super D 0-8-0 in 1924. Wot! no MM 2-8-0 in the line-up? Lovely - I said to Dad at the weekend that this is probably the only new steam engine I'm ever likely to buy - my Grandpa gave me the quartet of Somerset and Dorset in the Fifties/Sixties books 10+ years ago Surely you'll need a 3F to go with it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted July 27, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2010 I wonder whether the piston tailrod/cylinder cover is a one piece plastic assembly that fits over the cylinder unit and is mis-aligned on the pre-prod sample. even the slide bars look slightly non parallel to me. 53807 also had tail rod covers in late crest BR service Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted July 27, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2010 Really glad i bottled out of having a kit one of these built a few years back. Will be able to have 3 or 4 of the Bachmann ones for the money I saved I suspect that my current policy of buying stock that ran on the line that i model will be tested when these hit the shops. Will look nice with a couple of Beattie Well Tanks. Time to dig out the S&D book collection me thinks.. Even if the cylinder tail rod cover is wrong i can't see many joe public being bothered and most serious modellers that are offended by the error should have no problem altering it. annoying that it's not correct but not the end of the world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 A quick shufty through Ivo Peters S&DJR Albums shows all the S&D 2-8-0s had piston tail-rod covers in BR days. Whether or not the actual tail rods had been removed I don't know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 I hope to eventually get one of these. Even thinking of getting the weathered version. Being an S&DJR modeller (and having a layout based on Wellow), one of these would be great. I've heard that Bachmann hopes to release these in October/November time? But I'm thinking it will be more like February/March ... and possibly even later here in Canada? Thanks, Rob It's hoped at this stage subject to everything going to plan that it will be out before Xmas - I asked when at Barwell last week I forgot to ask whether there'll be token exchange apparatus included as part of a detail pack - these engines (in BR days at least) had one on each side of the tender due to occasional tender first working becuase of the the short turntable at Evercreech. Otherwise I guess something could be cobbled togther from some scraps in he event of nothing etched being available. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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