ColinK

Tired tonight so I sat down and watched a couple of VHS tapes I had picked up somewhere. The first was 'Britains Railway Heritage, Archive British Diesel & Electric Traction volume 2'. While the quality of the tape was poor, it did include some real gems, Green Falcon, Blue Pullman, class 74, one of the southen 1-co-co-1 locos, and some shots of a five car APT-P. Excellent. So if someone produces a 5 car APT its fine to run it on our layouts.

Many thanks for the update. Meant I didn't have to sit out in the cold with my camcorder.

I've made a short video of the Cumbrian Coast 37's. If you are interested, you can watch it here. I've had to lower the quality in order not to exceed my free download limit. If people like it, I might pay to upgrade my Vimeo account so you can watch it in HD.

Last year I went out with my camcorder and videoed the 37s on the Cumbrian Coast Line. You can watch the video I made here, I've had to reduce the quality in order to upload it without exceeding my free allowance. If people like it, I might upgrade my vimeo account so you can see it in HD. Please let me know what you think.

Some Christmas decorations have moving figures, eg skating on ice. You could try usng the mechanism from one.

To make it even more interesting, how about some ducks in the puddles? Even better if they move

Thanks for the info. I'll be in my local model shop in a few days time, so will try and pick some up. Thanks again.

Really like the 31 driver. Would appreciate knowing what figure you used and how you got him in there.

Many thanks for posting the coach photos. I hadn't realised that there was a 'Inter City Scotrail' logo.

Bump, wondering if there will be any open days at the Littledale Railway this year?

What's all that stuff hanging off the front of the loco on the top picture?

The reason I use Kadees is not for close coupling, but for hands off uncoupling.

I've finally fitted Kadees to my old Bachmann class 24 and Vitrains 37. Many thanks to everyone who has helped with advice on how to achieve this. For the Vitrains 37, I pulled out the tension lock from the unusual mounting. A Kadee number 20 had its 'legs' cut off, being careful to make the cut at 90 degrees. A file was then used to make a small fishtail in the Kadee, similar to that on the tension lock previously removed. It took me three attempts to get two couplers that fitted. Fit the modified Kadee into the coupler mounting, checking with a height gauge that it is at the right height, superglue in position. Once sure it was OK, I strengthened the joint by adding some more superglue and sprinkled on some 'Rocket Powder' which makes a sort of superglue filler. PS I've lost two of the class 37 buffer heads, any idea where I can get replacements? For the class 24, I removed the long coupling plate by undoing the crosshead screw. I then pulled off the tension lock hook and cut off the tension lock loop. A Kadee number 19 coupling was simply superglued on top of the coupling plate. By pure luck, the coupling is the right height without any adjustment needed. I did remove a mm or two from the underside of the buffer beam to allow for gradient changes. Again I strengthened the join with 'Rocket Powder'. When dry I refitted the coupling plate, That's my two 'difficult loco' coupling conversions done.

My challenge was to build a O gauge class 02 diesel shunter kit. It was to be the first thing I had built in O gauge, and hopefully the first chassis I had built which actually worked. Link http://www.rmweb.co....lass-02-diesel/ I started with this... and made it into this... Much to my relief it does work, although the kit pick ups are not very good and I plan to change them for plunger pick ups sometime soon. It may even appear on 'Gillan & Brown', the Romiley Club layout. The challenge has increased my modelling skills, including chassis building and airbrushing. Plus I've learnt lots of small things e.g. how to get the wheels revolving freely, how to glue a white metal body using superglue and 'Rocket Powder' to fill gaps and strengthen joints. Thanks to RMweb for setting out the challenge, Phil Parker for his encouragement, everyone at RMweb and my model railway clubs for their advice and help. While my loco is not perfect, I've learnt a lot and I'm happy with it.

Be carefull pulling by the bogies. There is a cross member which holds the bogies into the chassis which you don't want to break. It can be replaced, but its a pain to do. One broke on my class 26. I've a couple of new 27s arriving soon, presumably they open the same way?

I'm hoping everything has been replaced, so its really a new loco that will be reliable and bring much pleasure to many for years to come.

I agree 4472 looks great with German smoke deflectors. But isn't it time it was updated and painted in BR blue with full yellow ends and a large double arrow on the tender?

Many lorries have cabs with a bed, cooker and heater. With all the odd hours and travelling you do Jim, make me wonder if the next batch of 70's should have sleeper cabs?

Will the cheese sandwich be edible?

Thanks for all the useful info folks. I have been through the previous thread but it didn't give all the info I need to make my model.

Many thanks 65288_62C, especially for the branding info. I haven't got my sldes back from storage at a friends house (after moving), so I wasn't sure whether the coaches were Scotrail or InterCity. My new layout is more generic than Scotrail, but I'm aiming to model reasonably accuratly trains I particularly accuratly. Couldn't resist the thought of a push pull set storming up the gradient with a DCC sound fitted 27 at each end. Hopefully my mate will let me run it on his garden railway too.

Looking forward to recieving my special super deltic. It will make my New Year very happy. Cheers.

I studied for my Institute of Transport qualification at St John's College in Manchester. One of the lecture rooms had a view of the line leaving Mnchester for Liverpool. Many on the course and one of the lecturers were railway enthusiasts. Lectures always stopped when a Deltic was due. Happy days. If any railtour organisers are reading this, how about a Liverpool - Manchester - York - Newcastle railtour behind a Deltic?

Well done Jon. Looks good.

Many thanks Flood. So its not quite so easy to make an accurate rake, But I should be able to make a reasonable job of it. Cheers.