Caley Jim

That interior looks pretty good to my eyes!  👍

Jim

Can't talk about other companies, but CR fish wagons, some of which were basically 8T dropsides on passenger rated underframes, were painted in NPCS livery of dark purple brown with yellow lettering.

Jim

11 hours ago, CF MRC said:

Vulcanite with porcelain gnashers. 

No swaged gold plate?   She looks at least upper middle class! 

Jim 

44 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

Now arrived at Aching Constable carriage works....

 

 

Of course, having viewed the photograph I was horrified to see the ghostly reflected image of a malignant entity from Beyond towering menancingly over my carriage prints. It was chilling to think it was in there, with me, invisible to the naked eye!

 

Then I realised it was bird sh1t on the window pane.

 

Panic over.

 

These will keep you out of mischief for a wee while (or perhaps not!).  That is after you've washed the windows of course!😉

Jim

On 27/02/2024 at 15:21, CKPR said:

...... Again, excuse the class 25s but I'm not risking one of my M&C engines as a test engine at this stage.

As long as you don't start coughing and sneezing! (Coughs and sneezals spread diseasals)   😁

Jim

Some photos from Model Rail 2024 at the weekend.

Not all pre-group, so I hope I don't get excommunicated! 🤞

Part 1

Firstly for @Compound2632, Kettlewell

Rolvenden K&ESR

For those of an Irish bent , Donaghadee.

Max attachments reached so part 2 to follow.

Jim

52 minutes ago, Hendreladis said:

I thought my soldering was bad but the photography is apparently even worse. 

Take the photos from further back and then crop them.  Gives you a greater depth of field.

Jim

1 hour ago, Dunalastair said:

The characteristic train on the WHR / Extension was the fish train. 

A fellow 2MM SA member in our Area Group is building a model of Glenfinnan in 2FS and is in the process of assembling a lengthy train of Foxhunter LNER fish van kits.

1 hour ago, Dunalastair said:

However, in the early days, the Scottish railways seemed to have used passenger rated (often dual fitted) open wagons for fish boxes packed in ice. In 4mm scale, NBR 4mm Developments make a kit (https://www.nbr4mm.co.uk/wagonkits/9100.php) in the larger scale. This includes a useful history of the wagons and this drawing.   

Yes, the CR had similar fish trucks which were Dia. 15 dropside wagons whose underframes had been ungraded to passenger train standards.

Jim

It would certainly be UQ by 1964.  BTW, I get a '403 Forbidden!' response from that first link!

Jim

22 minutes ago, Lacathedrale said:

 I've also found the Ratio axles to be 1-1.5mm longer than those from Gibson/etc. so my replacement wheel rattles around like anything. I'd really rather not re-bogie them but I'm not sure what to do!

Can you fit some sort of bearings to shorten the required axle length?

Jim

1 hour ago, Dunalastair said:

 ... and the signalman has been a little quick in dropping it to 'danger'. 

Surely that should be '...raising it to danger.', as it would be lower quadrant? 🤔

Jim

3 hours ago, Rudititanic said:

According to what I read, it was an independent project by Robert Davinson supported by and tested on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway:

https://topstastic.blogspot.com/2019/03/galvani.html

Thanks for that link @Rudititanic.  I wasn't aware of that development.

Jim

Is this the Carstairs House tramway, built by the Monteith's to link Carstairs House to Carstairs Junction Station?

Jim

Surely the important criteria for what wagon was required was the nature of the load?  The load weight marking on a wagon was governed by the running gear.  As @Mol_PMB has said above, you would only need a shallow wagon for a high density load, such as sand or loose root vegetables, while a low density load, such as hay, would need a wagon with higher sides, so the request might be more nuanced than 'we need an 8T wagon'.

Jim

Speak to @Nigelcliffe.  He's working on how to convert them to 2FS.

Jim

Just out of curiosity, why green for the distant?  In my experience they were always yellow as they are in that video.  Was that an LBSCR practice?

Jim

The CR certainly had red on the brake ends of carriages where the guard's compartment was at the end, including PBVs.  I don't think there is yet a consensus on whether those with the guard's compartment in the middle of the coach, e.g. brake composites, had red ends.

Jim

If the loco runs well on DC and like a donkey with the chip then the issue lies with the chip.  Try a different chip or try tuning the chip.  Can't help with LaisDCC decoders, but these articles might help with CT and Zimos.

https://www.2mm.org.uk/articles/CT-decoders.htm

https://www.2mm.org.uk/articles/Zimo-decoders.htm

It's well worth investing in a SPROG and using  JMRI to do the programming on a test track.

Jim

I have a drawing for a CR loading bank buffer stop which has a beam with self contained buffers and hinged ramps which fold down to allow wheeled vehicles to be rolled onto a wagon with end doors.

Jim

6 hours ago, Lacathedrale said:

but in my defence it's an absolute ball-ache to photograph high gloss!!

I never use gloss, far too 'hard' looking on a model.  Always a satin finish.

Jim

Although working in 2FS rather than 4mm, I can attest to the quality of Zimo decoders having 4 locos fitted with them.  I also have several fitted with CTelectronik ones, which are also good, but unobtainable at the moment.  These two are the only makes (at present) which have small enough decoders for my uses.  I am lead to understand that the shortage of both these makes is due to the manufacturer being fully occupied with providing components for the German Military, and we all know the reason for that!

Jim

17 hours ago, Doncaster Green said:

I don’t know what the prototypical capacity would be, although I’ve rarely seen pictures of J94s with more than about a dozen 4 wheelers in tow except in preservation where their Austerity cousins seem to be regularly tasked with 5 or 6 BR Mk 1 s.

I see no point in getting obsessed over trying to emulate the haulage capacity of the prototype.  Unless you have a big layout like Fencehouses or CF on which you can run prototype trains, what's the point?  For me all I want is for a loco to have sufficient adhesion to haul the train I envisage for it.   Weight is always going to be the limiting factor, never motor size.  I recently replaced a Branchlines Minimotor (iron cored) in a little Drummond 0-4-4T with a Tramfabreik 0615 (coreless).  It will still comfortably handle a train of 5 4-wheelers, which all I ask of it.  (And the wheels still turn if you put an obstruction in front of it!)

Jim

11 minutes ago, Doncaster Green said:

The J94 has one of the Association 7x16's in it with a two stage drive and seems to be very good at polishing rails if progress is impeded, something I'd put down to lack of mass to stall the motor! 

What do you mean by 'if progress is impeded'?  Impeded by what?  A finger - yes the wheels will spin, but what is it's haulage capacity in terms of wagons?  Why would you want to stall the motor?  That's just going to draw current.  I have a white metal bodied 0-6-0T which will haul 35+ wagons, three times what my layout is designed to handle and yes, put a finger in front of it and the wheels slip.  Remember too, that if you have a whacking big heavy motor in the tender which is driving the loco, then that motor becomes 'train weight', so the loco needs more weight to have sufficient adhesion.  Weight in the loco for adhesion is what is important, not the size of the motor.  No point in having a motor which can provide more power than the loco is able to deliver at the wheel-rail interface.

Jim