When the real thing looks like a model

[pH]

A well-stocked fiddle yard:

 

https://railpictures.net/photo/843971/

[F-UnitMad]

1 hour ago, pH said:

A well-stocked fiddle yard:

 

https://railpictures.net/photo/843971/

Classic mistake, too - cramming in so many tracks there's no room for your fingers to get in to lift stock out. 🙄🤦‍♂️😉

[Dunalastair]

On 17/10/2023 at 09:01, Wickham Green too said:

I can't remember what the application was, but the curve was so tight that Bagnalls had to build a loco with wheels bigger one side than t'other !

 

Sounds like one of the fairground ride 'tunnel railway' locos - see for instance halfway down this link for a Fowler example - other builders also sold into this market

http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/histjf.asp

 

A somewhat unconvincing 'pizza' layout?

[steve1]

2 hours ago, pH said:

A well-stocked fiddle yard:

 

https://railpictures.net/photo/843971/

 

Those readymade loads look too even…

 

steve

[F-UnitMad]

2 hours ago, pH said:

A well-stocked fiddle yard:

 

https://railpictures.net/photo/843971/

 

1 hour ago, F-UnitMad said:

Classic mistake, too - cramming in so many tracks there's no room for your fingers to get in to lift stock out. 🙄🤦‍♂️😉

 

25 minutes ago, steve1 said:

 

Those readymade loads look too even…

 

steve

Credit where it's due, though - it's the first fiddleyard I've seen with ballasted & weathered track....

[Ian Morgan]

There was a large french automated layout at Warley a couple of years back. I first approached it from the rear and thought it looked odd for a layout. Then I realised it was a fully scenic fiddle yard and the layout proper was round the other side.

[Cowley 47521]

On 01/11/2023 at 12:52, Ian Morgan said:

There was a large french automated layout at Warley a couple of years back. I first approached it from the rear and thought it looked odd for a layout. Then I realised it was a fully scenic fiddle yard and the layout proper was round the other side.

It’s something I’ve considered doing at times. With some houses on a backscene it could make quite a passable model of Goodrington Sidings.

[Cowley 47521]

But then the thought of ballasting all those points hits home… 😉

[6990WitherslackHall]

I think someone's got carried away with the weathering on this 37...

 

[Hibelroad]

That’s a mess, whoever did that needs to study some photos of real rolling stock. 

[F-UnitMad]

22 minutes ago, 6990WitherslackHall said:

I think someone's got carried away with the weathering on this 37...

 

Number transfers & the nameplate are all over the place, too!!!

[7802]

17 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said:

Number transfers & the nameplate are all over the place, too!!!

Looks like they’ve used an N gauge arrows of indecision on an OO loco too, just emptying out the spares box.

[6990WitherslackHall]

 

1 hour ago, Hibelroad said:

That’s a mess, whoever did that needs to study some photos of real rolling stock. 

 

The other end of the train modelled is just as bad! They've basically ruined that large logo 37.

 

[Rich_F]

Inspiration for your modem era depots! 

 

Also in the 'interesting pictures from Flickr" thread.

 

 

[lmsforever]

21 hours ago, Rich_F said:

Inspiration for your modem era depots! 

 

Also in the 'interesting pictures from Flickr" thread.

That looks like Aylesbury?

 

 

[fulton]

Nice detail and weathering, shame about the obviously over scale nut and bolt castings. (this viaduct carriers the North Kent line over Janes' Creek, Strood)

[Wickham Green too]

.... and they couldn't even decide whether to use bullhead or flatbottom rail for the reinforcements ( probably whatever was in the bottom of the 'bits' box ).

[PhilJ W]

And they mixed code 75 and code 100 rails as well.

[KeithMacdonald]

On 04/11/2023 at 16:48, Rich_F said:

Inspiration for your modem era depots! 

Also in the 'interesting pictures from Flickr" thread.

 

@Rich_F - thanks, this give me another chance to moan pathetically again. 😋

 

Those red Peco(?) accessories should have been painted, and the weathering on the roof of the nearest DMU is dreadful.

 

But using Demerara Sugar for the pile of gravel is a nice idea.

[F-UnitMad]

51 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

And they mixed code 75 and code 100 rails as well.

And that is a problem....  because....??

[Rich_F]

1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

@Rich_F - thanks, this give me another chance to moan pathetically again. 😋

 

Those red Peco(?) accessories should have been painted, and the weathering on the roof of the nearest DMU is dreadful.

 

But using Demerara Sugar for the pile of gravel is a nice idea.

 

There's also a Dapol JCB shoehorned in between the Clubman & the Turbo models! Rule 1 but I think they'd use a proper crane rather than a digger to fix the units in reality! 😆

[rockershovel]

On 04/04/2023 at 13:48, Ian Morgan said:

You need to vacuum up the excess static grass there

 

 

 

I take it that's OO9?

[MidlandRed]

On 06/11/2023 at 11:24, fulton said:

Nice detail and weathering, shame about the obviously over scale nut and bolt castings. (this viaduct carriers the North Kent line over Janes' Creek, Strood)

The state of the flood defence wall is somewhat iffy as well!
 

I think this is actually carrying the Medway Valley Line, it’s south west of the A2 bridge and south west of the junction beyond the down end of Strood station. 
 

[fulton]

5 hours ago, MidlandRed said:

The state of the flood defence wall is somewhat iffy as well!
 

I think this is actually carrying the Medway Valley Line, it’s south west of the A2 bridge and south west of the junction beyond the down end of Strood station. 
 

You are quite correct, today it is the Medway Valley Line, I tend to use North Kent Line as that was its designation at the time I am modelling the area, I walk under the viaduct each time I go shopping and live just off the edge of your view.

[Wickham Green too]

2 hours ago, fulton said:

... I am modelling the area, ...

OH - the wonders contained with in those few simple words ! ......... if I may say so. 😊