webbcompound

Anyone know when the EJ&E got their EMD SW1s (running nos 220-246). Or where I can find that out?

Most of my night time train experiences involved staggering around bleary eyed at some unknown station in the cold after a night on uncomfortable seats. the single major exception was stepping off the Orient express at breakfast time in a siding amongst snow covered peaks in Lichtenstein, surrounded by an array of passengers including us, slumming it in the provided dressing gowns, whilst some people had clearly been on the train since the mid nineteenth century from their garb and jewellry.

Don't see what all the fuss is about. Here is an 0-4-4-0 T1 resplendent in Pennsylvania Railroad Brunswick Green, (the 1940s is pre-grouping in the US)efore.

the Chartists would go for it though

I would never sully my inebriation, or other states, with railway modelling. But regarding the HO stuff I have been debating the possibility of a bit of forced perspective. And that really is insanity, even allowing for the Castle in Castle Aching

Lawks. Just back from an XR Action to find discussion of terminal flooding and Edwardian advocating taking a "trip". What is the world coming to? Unfortunately those of us who think, think we know. Only one answer: complete insanity. Just bought a Jouef HO (steam) loco with a view to measuring it, then building one in 4mm instead. There. That's better.

Now if we are showcasing wierd early singles bought on e-bay how about this. Looks like a small Crewe single, but it scales about right for a large Crewe single. there is something funny going on with the chassis, but the wheels appear to be Romfords. So a pretty fair aproximation and a reasonable scratchbuild, but probably made without access to good scale drawings. No idea what I can do with it. Probably have to go back on e-bay.

Yes but people have turned sideways to see out of the window

It was prtobably probably converted into a saloon with doors nailed shut when they built the railmotor. And the mystery no-one has solved is why the Great Southern named its railmotor "TAPAM"

which you could achieve with a few cuts. (Image created with actual cut and paste wetware, hence blob of glue at front of side tank).

The HMRS sheet is fine for those bits, but nI'm after larger stuff that is part of the main livery (Coal Merchant etc)

Anyone know of a source of cursive script transfers? Specifically looking for transfers for 4mm scale wagon.

How about a jig? I'm guessing that pins stuck in a board should do it.

Sorry, just couldn't work out how to embed it. Obviously needed a young whippersnapper to do it.

Just found this early (1930s) film of even earlier steam locos and carriages: One Hundred Years of Railroad Development, made at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad "Fair of the Iron Horse". They are US of course but the early stuff (2.5 to 5 mins) is very similar to UK practice, starting with Tom Thumb, the first US steam loco, and progressing through the early 19th century. After the 5 minute mark it gets a bit modern for this thread . https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=316&v=ocdTR9UKQC4&feature=emb_logo

As a P4 modeller (actual, not ironic) I am quite frankly appalled by your sloppyness. Your flangeways are oversize by aproximately 60,000 Buckyball molecules (using the Van der Waals diameter of C60). But seriously I wouldn't let anyone near my stuff with a steel rule, let alone a micrometer, so no-one will ever know what is happening size-wise. If it looks right, then that is good enough for me.

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the River Tyne at the end of our garden is always exciting during the new kind of weather. This was today.

I think mostly the stock would be from the member companies, with some express passenger stock branded WRU, but actually looking just like the GCR stuff (like the West and East Coast Joints)

of course this only makes things more complicated. the standard US 55 gallon oil drum in fact holds 44 British Imperial gallons. So this reference may or may not refer to the US drum or to an independently devised Scottish or British one. In any case it would be interesting to locate some images of these drums in use, although if they were in common use i would have expected to see them in military use before WW2, HOWEVER the mass transport of petrol in small cans by the British military, whilst counterintuitive may also be a feature of standard military organisation as this US photo shows. Unless they are all empties waiting to be picked up, filled from drums and distributed of course, although their proximity to rail tankers without the presence of drums suggests otherwise.

The 55 gallon oil drum was invented in the US in 1905, but didn't really cross the atlantic to the UK till the Yanks arrived during WW2. That is why the British Army used "flimsies", or small rectangular cans after trans-shipment from rail tanks. (and the Germans used a different container which we know, surprise surprise as a jerrycan) The can was also the standard for decanting for civilian use and you can find them in antique shos and decorating "heritage" pubs in a variety of oil company brandings. I can't see why the railways would be any different so the flimsy would be your can of choice. Photos show WW2 army flimsies being trans-shipped, and a pre WW1 delivery tanker for Royal Daylight lamp oil, with a rack of cans for those without their own containers. you can find the cans in 1/76 from various military model suppliers

You don't need fictional locos. If there were additional lines existing locos could run across them. You could also posit a longer life for locos that were in reality replaced with new classes. If their numbers were re-used you could just gice them an "A" suffix

Looking again at the photos the right hand side seems to have several patches. The one you refer to may well indicate the removal of an SNCF numberplate (attached photo of a USA tank shows exactly this in terms of size and location). But the other four patches could well indicate widely spaced letter/symbols in two rows. They could show W ^ D on the top line, in a similar slayout to the Dean tenders, with the WD number 11 in the center below the arrow.

Hmm. interesting photo, but I'm not entirely convinced by the number. The missing three are 8, 13 and 15 and no other loco retained its WD number in such a prominent way. In addition other DR or military numbers are less visible, so the question would be why the WD number was repainted after them.

Yes, no more jokes about Liberals and Tories. Lets return to more rose-tinted times