Cunningham Loco & Machine Works

Here's EMD's real design for an F unit to fit the British loading gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_B12 https://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,354747

Ordinary domestic ammonia serves well as a solvent for removing acrylic paint, but does not affect lacquer and almost certainly does not affect enamel. It is far superior to isopropyl alcohol insofar as it will not discolour your underlying solvent-base paint as isopropyl alcohol sometimes does.

Here's a source that might prove useful to you for Egyptian and colonial railway photographs: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124446949@N06/albums/with/72157704339588205. I am unaware of any railway in the United States that emulated British practice in any significant regard after the most formative years. However, certain of the railways of Mexico received British capital, staff, and motive power; this may well be the best route for you to take in devising your desired British desert railway. If you must set it in the U.S., you could do worse than to adopt the following explanation, that the SF&T (or SF y T) began as a Mexican railroad funded by British capital, which, after initial failure in securing finances (for such a railway may well have failed to be remunerative), was bought out by American interests and, so as to procure sufficient traffic, extended across the border into El Norte, thereby providing another north-south railway link.

To the Board of Directors & whomever else it may concern, We are quite amendable to your making any modifications to the design that you deem necessary in its adaptations to the conditions prevailing upon your railway. Regards, Cunningham Locomotive & Machine Works (Trsnscriber's note: penciled beneath the text of the letter there is a note, apparently reading, as far as the scrawl can be ascertained: "so long as we see pictures".)

It is indeed an inside cylinder engine. Don't think the firebox didn't bother me ; it did! I worked out that the crank axle does not pass through the firebox, but instead is directly below it, this being permitted by a shallow grate, rearward-sloping ashpan, and high-pitched boiler, the latter of which also allows plenty of room to get at and baby the motion. My excuse, such as it is, is that I wished it to simultaneously fit a cheap Hornby 0-4-0 chassis and not have too great an overall length.

Not if you're working her compound! That drawing doesn't show the high-pressure cylinder on her fireman's side.

Here's a prospective pugbash; feel free to use the design.

In the course of finding a suitable prototype for a micro layout to exhibit my Hornby Leadenhall on, and with the aid of the National Library of Scotland's 1893-95 OS London 1:1056 map*, I discovered this engine servicing facility on the LB&SCR side of London Victoria Station. Has anyone any contemporary photographs of or including it or its vicinity**? It would be of immense help. *https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.49434&lon=-0.14561&layers=163&b=1 **Since such photographs would inevitably be public domain, and because I don't think I could easily obtain any book they would appear in, please post or link them in the thread; it doesn't matter if they're photographs of photographs!

This isn't about the prize; it's about the smallest locomotives, plural. On that line of inquiry, what was the (dimensionally) smallest type or class of standard gauge locomotive built in quantity, i. e. not a "one-off" (2 or more built).

That little Barclay looks especially appealing, as does the Kerr Stuart, even if the latter is in an ugly-cute way*. The prospect of building standard gauge version of a narrow gauge design has given me the most perversely unorthodox ideas, i.e. a standard gauge version of Dougal. *Which somehow makes it even more appealing

Precisely what the title implies: what were some of the smallest standard gauge steam locomotives used in the UK? I ask because I wish to build a Gauge One model of one of these "little fellows".

No; I believe that, as evidenced by the title, it was originally intended as entertainment for railway staff, though it subsequently morphed into a magazine of railway-themed fiction, and then, in the 1930s, into something very like our modern "enthusiast" magazines, but with a selection of said railway fiction. As near as I can ascertain, the magazine had its heyday through the 1950s, declining thereafter until it merged with "Railfan" magazine in the mid 70's. Spoken as someone who, living in America, has more knowledge of this (and an incomplete collection of the magazine from WWII on).

This is the "Gowan and Marx", a very Disk-style locomotive if I ever saw one. C'mon, you know you want one!

For $100, I'm buying one. The real trick is not letting it grow into building my own Lego steam locomotives.

That 3d print is excellent; what printer are you using?

Yesterday construction progressed to the point of applying the initial coat of sprayed primer.

(The usual disclaimer that this is purely in jest)

In that vein of cheap models, I'm just going to put this here...

No, the project isn't dead; I just prefer actually working on it to maintaining a constant post schedule. It's acquired some green stuff filler and air and feed water greebles by now..

Work continues, albeit very slowly...

Interestingly enough, a rough equivalent operated in revenue service(!) in Sweden.

Nice job of diorama-building there. Would be interesting to build a micro layout of the setup. Now we just need animated miniature sailors!

While you navally inclined folks might well already be aware, it has recently come to my attention that certain IJN destroyers had, of all things, narrow gauge railways on their decks! This was in the interest of moving torpedoes, and in light of its manifestly fascinating and peculiar nature, I wonder if anyone has any more details? Pictures here: https://www.amazon.com/InfiniBand-destroyer-torpedo-carrying-IMP3525/dp/B07CHXJGF9 https://www.shapeways.com/product/UHXTXL98Z/1-96-ijn-610-mm-24in-type-93-torpedo-tubes

Work continues to progress on the Jintybodge. The slow speed is attributable to the fact that I am scratchbuilding the detail parts of plastic. The dome is of styrene tubing and sheet and a Tri-Ang boogie wagon wheel with the flange turned off it, while the T-joint in the outside steam passages incorporates turned Plastruct tube, a piece of scrap sprue for the actual T, and plastic discs made with a leather punch. The headlight is of ABS rectangular tubing, 5 thou styrene sheet, and more turned plastic tube. The outside steam passages themselves are of Plastruct tube also. Cab doors were added after the bunker broke off twice after I removed the original cab, and are thus of suitably thick plasticard. I think it serves as a kind of spiritual antithesis to Corbs' steampunk locomotive; in contrast to his high wheeled and smooth lined express engine, mine is a rather cluttered freight and shunter, born to serve and work in the shadow of the cyclopean "dark Satanic mills".