goldfish Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 It would appear that the type of replacement coupling I am using was the standard fitting for all Leeds rolling stock from 1920 to 1928. Strange how change is not always real progress. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Annie Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted August 31, 2019 When I was still doing things with 'O' gauge I converted all my rolling stock over to the Leeds coupling. It works well and it has a good appearance matching nicely with both my tinplate and my ancient kitbuilt wooden rolling stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Finished replacing the couplings, definitely an improvement (or at least I think it is). A useful bonus of the LMC couplings is that the coupling hook does not protrude beyond the buffers so it is safe to use them with stock fitted with 3-link couplings. Once again, apologies for the terrible photography. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 And, you seem to have fallen for Sentinels the way others before you fell for Terriers. So far, I've not been able to devise an even half-decent excuse to add one to the fleet, largely because the SR didn't, so far as I can discover, ever own any. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted September 1, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 1, 2019 Why have an excuse? Just get one, green paint and transfers, bingo! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 11 hours ago, Nearholmer said: And, you seem to have fallen for Sentinels the way others before you fell for Terriers. So far, I've not been able to devise an even half-decent excuse to add one to the fleet, largely because the SR didn't, so far as I can discover, ever own any. It would be cruel to only have one, the poor thing would get lonely. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sncf231e Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Last week some Dutch HRCA members came to run their coarse scale trains in my garden. The first one was the Sentinel and the question arose: what is the front of the locomotive? Is the Sentinel in the beginning of the video running forward? Regards Fred 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 4 hours ago, sncf231e said: Last week some Dutch HRCA members came to run their coarse scale trains in my garden. The first one was the Sentinel and the question arose: what is the front of the locomotive? Is the Sentinel in the beginning of the video running forward? Great video. That is something I have pondered. With the funnel at the front, and the bunker / water tank at the back, I would say yes it is running forward. I would be interested to know if anybody has the definitive answer to this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Sweet pea Posted September 1, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 1, 2019 Fred you have a fantastic garden railway. I to would be interested to know the front and rear of the Sentinel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 (edited) Some indication might come from the orientation of the locomotive in Sentinel works drawings. They drew the earlier type, the ones with a more obviously steam locomotive shape and layout, with the cab to the left of the drawing, and the cylinders to the right. I take this to be a locomotive facing to the right. They drew the ones under discussion with the bunker to the left of the page, and the boiler and funnel (their word) to the right. My surmise is that they regarded this to be a locomotive facing to the right also. On this basis, the ‘front’ is the chimney end, and the rear the bunker end. But, of course, the LNER may have thought differently! Edited September 2, 2019 by Nearholmer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 I went for the War Department one, which I will run with a couple of WD wagons (a bogie bolster and a tank wagon) from WJ Vintage. She ran between Tidworth Camp and Tidworth on the M&SWJR. Not a million miles from there to Andover on the Southern. Perhaps you can convince yourself she might have been used at an army depot near Birlstone... Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Yes, I wondered about that, and I even found some very good photos of the real one for Mr WJV to peruse when he was considering how to have it finished by ETS, although he actually decided on a probable later livery, because it didn't look identifiably military in 'as delivered' condition. Up to now, I've airbrushed all things related to warfare out of history on my layout, but that is about to change, with the imminent arrival of a very definitely military loco of a different kind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 That raises a number of possibilities. Hopefully with pictures to follow... Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasW Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 I am interested into these smaller couplers and wonder whether it is possible to fit them to my continental ETS stock. But where to order from? Some of my tinplate trains, all from ETS; I found one more box of old photos: ThomasW 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasW Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 ThomasW 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 Good to see your excellent railway gracing RMWeb. Kevin 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted September 10, 2019 Share Posted September 10, 2019 I don’t have any template, but I do have a collection of 60s, 70s and 80s Atlas, Rivarossi and Lionel. Looking at various items I have in my collection, the wheel flanges vary considerably, with Lionel being the most “coarse scale”. How do the Atlas and Rivarossi track sections compare? It looks to me from the flanges, that they are similar. Does anyone know for certain? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Returning to the earlier discussion about which end of a Sentinel shunter is the front, these two images from the November 1925 Meccano Magazine might help. Presumably the text for the captions was provided by Sentinel along with the images. 1 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldfish Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 On 09/09/2019 at 17:00, ThomasW said: I am interested into these smaller couplers and wonder whether it is possible to fit them to my continental ETS stock. But where to order from? Unfortunately LMC couplings cannot be used as a direct replacement for the original ETS couplings. To fit them would either require a slot cutting in the buffer beam, or somehow modifying the LMC coupling. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 And here's Molly (the WD Sentinel) at work. Ignore the background. It's er, under construction. Gordon 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 The lorry is from The Blue Lotus, isn't it? So maybe a scene from a latter day version of The Opium Wars (which can't be called Britain's Finest Hour). Anyway, wonderfully coarse-scale. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Yes indeed. The opium truck from the Blue Lotus. A birthday gift to be used with my (largely) French Hornby/JeP modules that I take to local train shows, but temporarily decorating my home layout, until I have to pack it up to take to the next show. Hmm... Less than a week to go for that! Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 I do like the visual blend that you create with your scenery and trains, which actually looks reminiscent of Herge's drawings, so the lorry is probably at home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Thank you. I was aiming somewhere between semi-realistic and toy-like. I do like the Tintin vehicles, and already have a couple, including the Lancia with someone spreadeagled on the bonnet. It gets a lot of comments. I was amazed at one show, when a young girl recognized them and knew which stories they came from. Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 44 minutes ago, GRASinBothell said: Yes indeed. The opium truck from the Blue Lotus. A birthday gift to be used with my (largely) French Hornby/JeP modules that I take to local train shows, but temporarily decorating my home layout, until I have to pack it up to take to the next show. Hmm... Less than a week to go for that! Gordon Hi Gordon, which one is that? Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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