Rowsley17D

42 minutes ago, Rail-Online said:

Hi Guys,

 

Here is another one for you 'wagon spotters'.  Again at Dumfries in 1927 probably of the same train as previously but on a different day.  Again there are two cattle wagons leading but here one is of GWR origin (was this during the brief time that the GWR allowed their cattle wagons to be pooled before pulling them out?).

 

Cheers Tony

 

I wondered what the boxes were at the side of the other track. In the larger image I see they're stacked sleepers with chairs on top. Looks as though the PW guys are going to be busy.

I use HMRS Pressfix ones. Fox are good for waterslide but their website is a nightmare.

5 hours ago, Graham T said:

 

That's what I was planning to use Jonathan, thanks.  But I was wondering about the size and style of the lettering and numbering - I'm struggling to find any references (and also for my 4F).  Could you help please?

 

Up to 1938 plain black engines had black shaded gold livery. You couldn't see the black shading on a black engine. The LMS on the tender usually was at 53" spacing. After 1938 red shaded yellow livery was the norm. The only photo I have of a 2-8-0 has 10" numerals.

11 hours ago, Graham T said:

The latest project has been to fit a DCC chip, sound, and stay-alive to another one of the "interlopers".  Clearly too big a loco for Chuffnell R, but I like them, so Rule 1 applies yet again!  And she may be a little more at home on CR Mk II.  The decoder was incredibly sensitive to being positioned just so - if not, it refused to work.  This caused more than a little gnashing of teeth, and is why the speaker is being used to hold the rear end of the PCB in the right place! 

 

 

But after a bit of effort every fitted back together, and still worked as advertised, thank goodness.

 

 

 

It's a lovely looking model, with loads of nice details.  Just needs some coal, fire irons, lamps, and a crew now.  I also need to find out what the correct LMS livery would be for it in the 1930s; I'm planning to renumber her as 13808, and she will also be getting airbrushed with a dirty black mix in due course, and then weathered.

 

 

Unlined plain black should be just fine.

3 hours ago, kevinlms said:

Why is it impossible to put a loco on the track, before you take photos?

Probably because he describes it as a 3 rail loco in the Item Specifics section and he couldn't find the third rail.

Pedant mode on.

Can I just point out that solvents do not melt plastic, a high temperature is required to do that. Solvents dissolve plastic.

Thank you.

On with railway action. The MegaPoints stuff arrived super quickly (an adverb that seems to have been forgotten about) so I've fitted it inside the old fiddle-yard control panel box. The switch pins on the servo controller were connected to the old switches. The blue wire and green panel are for the ADM turntable in the yard.

Nice work, Chuffers.

5 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Yes, probably, though it could be the end-door version, D351, with the end door at the end obscured by the engine. Evidently the photo dates from no earlier than 1917 but where is it?

Looking at the photo on the Rail Photoprints website the caption reads:

"GWR 2-4-0 Crane Tank 1299 at Swindon circa 1928. Initially purchased by the South Devon Railway in 'kit' form the loco was completed at Swindon and adopted as works shunter in 1881"

Is this a D299 lurking behind 1299?

I doubt the Repair Shop crew could do anything with that.

14 minutes ago, lmsforever said:

Make the most of them ASLEF are threatning to boycot them   .like the layout

It did look strange pulling into Pitlochry. Even stranger was an LNER Azuma heading north.

The Minx Microdrives will soon be on their way to a new home. I'm just glad that somebody can make use of them rather than going to the tip.

Here's a couple of servos in place as I wait for the delivery from MegaPoints.

36 minutes ago, Kris said:

These are great motors. I would quite happily take them off your hands. 

There're yours Kris.

Well I've finally got fed-up with the Minx Microdrive system for changing turnouts in the fiddle yard and they are on offer free in the Classifieds should anybody still use them. This was an idea which was too far ahead of the technology at the time. The least bit change in temperature caused the built-in alarms to sound, as did any slight movement of the turnout itself. It also required a very smooth input.

I've plenty servos and channel to hold them. the servos will be above board and I've 4 in place already. I'm going to used MegaPoints stuff to activate them and their relays to change polarity. The existing fiddle yard control panel will still be used as ordinary on-off switches can be used instead of passing contact ones which some systems rely on. Just as a comparison I went to DCC Concepts at the weekend to see  how much their stuff would cost for the fiddle yard, just under £350! MegaPoints is less £150.

Does anybody who still uses the above system want a shed-load of parts? I've plenty of Point Actuator Controllers, Actuator stall motors and cables.

If I'm the last man standing to use this system, then the lot will be heading for the LA small electrical items recycling bin.

Just pay for postage.

Ideally I would like 2 x PL11 and 10 x PL 10 with PL12.

In bid to get away for couple of days from hospitals and chemo we went to Pitlochry for 3 nights this week. One of the days we went to Inverness via the Highland line. While waiting for our late-running train, an HST came into the station to wait for a path south.

10 hours ago, Hroth said:

We've not had them on for a couple of days, but here's a classic from our old chums Rocket Railways!

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115806654467

 

Its a Prototype Models LMS Goods Shed, carefully described through the lot as "OO gauge".

 

Whoever did the listing didn't bother to look at photo 2

 

 

Apart from that minor error......

 

 

 

£10.50 inc post from Anticsonline or £12.85 from RR

8 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

Read from yesterday’s post onwards.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I see the sale has been pulled.

3 hours ago, MJI said:

Stolen Property

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235073911702

Stolen? I'm missing something somewhere. But then I am in a chemo brain fog at the moment.

1 hour ago, Weeny Works said:

Not a bad price for this class 20. 

 

However, look at the main picture then the rest & also the description:

NEM pockets & nice detail on the main, massive d-locks & some very black traction tyres. Also listed as "never run". 

 

Probably just my OCD clicking in 🤣

Looks as though he's used a web stock photo for the first and the actual model for the rest.

2 hours ago, brylonscamel said:

 

I must admit to being a bit detached from rural farms, living in a Victorian city terrace!

I will be doing more scenic work to bed in the little farm steading, so I am off to the Canmore site for inspiration, although a fair bit of the photo archive seems derelict!

I suspect the the tidiness or lack thereof will depend on when your farm is set. I seem to remember from the late 50s and 60s farms were well looked after. I guess it was due to cheap labour being readily available. Gaps in walls were rebuilt, hedges nicely laid and no junk and rusting machinery cluttering up the place. No it's old pallets, hedges slashed to pieces and the more junk the better.

16 hours ago, brylonscamel said:

Old MacDonald had a farm ..

 

Far too tidy for some of the farms around here!!