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Heljan ES1 exclusive for Locomotion and Rails of Sheffield
Porcy Mane replied to AY Mod's topic in Heljan
Traff Yd catenery, with the trolleybus wires beyond. (Detail from a Photograph by the late Ian S. Carr on the last day of electric operation). As compared to the modern overhead on the mainline. The add hoarding is still there. P -
Heljan ES1 exclusive for Locomotion and Rails of Sheffield
Porcy Mane replied to AY Mod's topic in Heljan
Probably easier to install the third rail or just have a J72 or Class 03/04 shunter moving it around. -
Heljan ES1 exclusive for Locomotion and Rails of Sheffield
Porcy Mane replied to AY Mod's topic in Heljan
Probably June 1961. This date is disputed. I'm chuffed Heljan is doing this but I'd imagine the production is completed if it's delivery afore Christmas. I hope the livery has been corrected from what I assume is a pre-prod model in the phots above? P -
Especially the Livery for the BR version, but I can forgive Heljan for that for introducing a NER loco that worked in a very limited area.
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I ope not. Their last engineers wagon was a bit of a dog.
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Class 37, by Accurascale
Porcy Mane replied to Accurascale Fran's topic in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
Consett > Tyne Yard not doable. 9P72 Tees > Raisby tripper for 1969 looks a goer. Loads of Conflat L's and Berry Wiggins tanks. -
Class 37, by Accurascale
Porcy Mane replied to Accurascale Fran's topic in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
... and your preferred headcode? -
Surely you me a dead short? 😮
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Class 37, by Accurascale
Porcy Mane replied to Accurascale Fran's topic in Accurascale / Irish Railway Models
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Planning for the future? 😬
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Dear Duckie, In the Dapol (Dublo in my day) body floor, 45 degree cuts into each corner with a razor saw then cut out the remaining floor chunks with a said saw. Clean up insides with file and a ratio u/f was a snug fit (way before days of the Red Panda). You could always glue a step, 2 x 1 mm strip, to the inside of the remaining "box" for the floor to sit against. All this was way back in the early 1970's and it was probably Gunpowder vans but method should still should hold true. Just by coincidence a Rumney Models GPV has just dropped through the letterbox.
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But not the way OR has represented them by giving us double that of the prototype. Easy to remove every other one though. P (who finds counting rivets quite relaxing).
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As you say, "been there, done that". I've since taken to thinning the wheels by turning off the outside face of the un-prototypical dished tyre rim. Far less time consuming that grinding out splashers/running plates. What I found much more laborious was getting rid of all those rivets along the running pate top & around the splashers that Oxford Rail for some reason, gave us as freebies. Thanks to the two Richards I've now got a Mk1 Bradwell chassis and etched coping plates, so working inside motion here I come? Hoping all is well, down your way. P
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I found my high level gearbox's with High Level coreless motor to be better performers on DC but that's not to take anything away from the Oxford rail J27 chassis. Mine would happily run at 0.18 volts (yep there's a zero in there) starting voltage being about 0.2v The example in the Vid has been converted to EM and I just bent the pick ups out marginally to maintain electrical contact. It was ran from cold & had no prior running in. Not bad running considering its cost. What do you reckon?
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When I hope all those pictured above can get together again, go down the Strand and give us all a quick chorus of: