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3 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Beautiful. As to the tender livery, rounded corners to the inner panels; the beading around the edge of the panels was not lined out, except along the bottom, and there not to the full height of the beading. 

 

I think there should be MR on the tender rear, in the middle of the panel. (Not on the buffer beam.)

 

I was about to comment on the position of the cabside number, but from the photo I'm looking at it is correctly positioned; on 2632 (and presumably 2631) it was slightly higher up - the centre line being a fraction more than half-way up the cab side sheet. That's a detail difference I'd not noticed before!

 

The real expert is @Dave Hunt who has built a simply stunning S7 model of one of the three engines from the second batch - I forget which one.

Hopefully this a bit better.

A new loco I've been working on that I thought I would show off here first, as Annie's contacts here pointed me in the direction of the relevant edition of Midland Record for the drawings. This model is of a Midland Johnson compound from the second batch with straight valances.

I'm not 100% certain I've got the tender livery right. If anyone has any comments please let me know!

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

Timber viaducts have a relatively limited lifespan and a railway that would want to run heavier locomotives on the line would consider replacement of timber structures with cost effective masonry ones worth the cost and effort.  At least they didn't think of slapping concrete around the existing viaduct a viable solution!

 

Having said that, the timber Barmouth Viaduct, built for the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway (later the Cambrian) opened in 1867, operates in an even more severe environment than the Cornwall ones and is still going strong! Even so, the GWR and later WR didn't consider running anything larger than a 43xx or Dukedogs across it, or that in more recent times only DMUs were allowed to cross it, though apparently loco hauled trains are once more permitted.

Don't forget the other timber viaducts on the same line. There's one over the Afon Dyfi by Dovey Junction and another between Barmouth and Harlech. There was another over the Dwyryd at Pont Briwet that also carried a road but that was replaced as part of a road improvement scheme. They originally intended to keep the old one as a cycle path but accidentally undermined it whilst building the new one. They've done a lot of work on them all recently and they should be god for years to come. Hopefully someone will get their act together and sort out ERTMS for steam so we can see a return of the daily summer Cambrian Coast Express services that operated a few years back.

5 hours ago, Annie said:

Yes Rob Dee has done a lovely job with this TPO mail van.  I suppose having cut his teeth previously on the 6 wheel coaches he was well primed to take on the 6 wheel TPO.  Ed Heaps very kindly provided all the TPO apparatus having already made these items for his own HR and NER TPO vans and that definitely helped Rob's GER TPO project along.  

 

Unfortunately I can't muster a T19 James and the only singles I have are the Eastlingwold & Great Mulling's Beyer Peacocks.  After Ed Heap's brilliant work with recently making a T26 and a C32 and greatly improving the situation for GER Trainz enthusiasts I wouldn't really like to stretch his goodwill too far by pleading for yet more  GER locomotives. 

I could use the T26's as stand ins on the mail trains and then of course there's the question of scheduling and routes.  The Eastlingwold & Great Mulling would absolutely insist on a Beyer Peacock being in charge of any mail train on their patch so that forestalls that issue for a while which would leave the joint line mail train for a T26 to handle.  I do have a 'Claud', but with it being brand spanking new at the time period of my layout I don't think it would be an appropriate choice.

It's great to see someone else making use of the TPO system I made.

When it comes to GER express locos a T19 or Petrolea type single would be relatively straightforward as a conversion from the T26. They are on the list of potential future projects. The GER loco I'd really like to model though is a P43. If anyone knows where decent drawings can be found I'd be interested to hear. I've only been able to find side views of it. Something with end and plan views would be useable, but the ideal thing would be a works GA type drawing showing the inside motion in side and plan views.

2 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Do the nets and traductor arms work?

 They do. Here's a demonstration using my Highland Jones TPO model.

A sneaky RMWeb exclusive peak of a friend for the T26 I've been working on...

On 09/05/2021 at 16:24, Annie said:

The 'Claud' lurking in the background is a GER re-skin Ed did around two years ago now on a 'Claud' in lined LNER green that had been made way back in TS2004 days by pacificseven who was one of the very early makers of Uk models for Trainz.  As old as it is it's a none too bad model and it runs very sweetly.  One day soon I'll ask Ed if I can cure its tender of Arial fonts disease.

Just for Annie... The models actually much older than 2 years. I made it back in the days of Trainz 2009, before I had got into proper content creation. I released it much later after someone spotted it in a screenshot asked for it.