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I have been developing an idea for a freelanced railroad for some time now and have it to the point where the first power is ready to start work. I just don't have anywhere yet for it to do that. The railroad runs across southern Iowa and is based on a shortline that expanded rapidly following the spin-off of lines by neighbouring Class 1's and the collapse of the Rock Island. The Oskaloosa & Iowa Southern is a railroad waiting for a layout.

In the meantime, here is a roster shot for the O&IS (known as the Appanoose Railway) GP9 #352

l was recently on a visit to Valencia, including a rail trip to Sagunto. Apart from the amount of graffiti on stock I was really impressed with the rail set up. Good passenger services at reasonable prices, with lots of freight. There seemed to be lots of freight moving by rail, which was great and not something I see much of here in Scotland.

Here are a few pics.

Any advice on where I could find out a bit more about the current Spanish setup?

Cheers

John

11 hours ago, ianathompson said:

Like the station building. It captures the GNoSR atmosphere very well.

What was the prototype?

 

I measured up Dufftown before settling on Portsoy.

 

Ian T

Thanks, Ian, it is not based on any specific prototype but I have tried to capture the feel of the company' stone-built stations. The main dimensions were extracted from the drawing of Brucklay in the Railways of Buchan book. John

Now that the attic temperature is more hospitable I can hopefully do a bit more on the layout. The winter has been mostly spent building stock for the earlier pre-grouping period, so has been quite productive.

Today did though see the first train of the season running after a bit of tidying up and rail cleaning. BR era in my 1952 timetable.

This is the 10.23 am from Fraserburgh approaching Rosehearty;

The leisurely pace over the 3 miles 65 chains from Fraserburgh means there is time to get a second photograph at the platform in Rosehearty before the service heads to the branch terminus at New Aberdour; 

Hopefully, I will now be able to make some progress with the left-hand end of the layout and finish off some of the areas that are requiring attention.

Cheers

John

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Have a look here - 

I would suggest moving F so that it joins on to D as it was only accessible from that siding. The "run round" at B is a common feature of Scottish yards and is not used so much as a run round, but more to bypass wagons. Where you have marked position B is the high end of the loading bank, the bypass would allow wagons to be loaded at this position, but access is still maintained for the rest of the loading ramp (position C). As such I would make the loop a little longer. I didn't think that there were 2 sets of cross-overs on the mainline and would move the single set inside the turnout for the up siding, which itself would require a headshunt.

Hope that helps

John

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13 hours ago, justin1985 said:

 

Many thanks for all of the other comments - lots of useful details. Empties in opens, full casks in vans, makes sense - and presumably also arriving and leaving at different times, to suit batch production. So the lack of a "back haul" was presumably less of an issue.

 

I imagine very few distilleries had their own bottling plants? Probably most done in the larger cities? 

 

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Sorry Justin, but that is not the case. Whisky moved from Speyside in open wagons, in later years those with metal bodies were preferred, but what was available was used. Empty barrels were returned intact for re-use but there was no direct relationship to production. Most distilleries would have sizeable stores of barrels as production was seasonal. Hogsheads were 54 gallons and Butts were 108. 

Draff was moved away in clean open wagons.

The main bonding, bottling and blending facilities were in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee.

John

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Apologies for the quality, but I felt this was of interest. I got this tattered old photo from a neighbour and it shows Dundee driver Harry Mackie in the cab of a Type 2. The best that we can come up with locally is that this was driver training for Dundee crews just as they were arriving at Haymarket. It is taken in the yard at Wormit just beyond the south end of the Tay Bridge.                

Where has this been hiding? Found my way here today and had to stay a while. Very nice, simple idea, well executed with a lot of atmosphere. Well done.

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1 hour ago, jwealleans said:

That was the one in 1923?

 

I think the NBR 0-4-0 tender engine (1868) was the oldest in the LNER group, but I may be wrong.

The GNSR Class 43 numbers 44, 45 and 48 all lasted to 1925, reclassified as D47's by the LNER. No. 44 was delivered in March 1866 and was the oldest of the 3. 

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Not so much. Ex LNER corridor stock was used a lot on the Deeside line with ex LMS on many of the other routes. The last non-corridors were for the Banff branch, but these were BR Mk1's in the 60's.

Your mainline will be granite ballast, mostly supplied from Paradise Quarry on the Alford branch. Goods yards would be an ash/cinder mix.

Interested to find out more about your project.

John

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On 28/01/2019 at 17:47, Regularity said:

I sent a link to this thread to Barry Norman, and his response described it as, “...finely modelled and of a rare prototype”.

Thank you.

And thank you all for the positive feedback. It is way too cold to be in the attic at the moment, so I have some other projects to keep me going. I am hoping to get the west end of the layout completed when the temperature starts to come up a bit.

John

On 11/07/2018 at 10:17, airnimal said:

John, I am sorry for hijacking your thread.

I have only just realised your G.N.S.R van is for your Rosehearty branch line. I presume that it will be painted in B.R grey. I had not made the connection.

I looked at building one of these vans with the channel head stock in reverse. I have all the castings but I found out they were built to late for for the period I wish to model.

Is there any information if any were built before 1900.

Firstly my apologies, I have only just found this posting and would not have ignored your question. The van above is indeed for Rosehearty and is now complete in GNSR livery. It is shown on the layout - here

The steel underframe variations were built from 1902 with the diagram 15S, so just a little after 1900. The earlier wagons are not covered in the diagram book, but appear to be very similar in size and basic shape to the D14S. There is, ironically, a number of photos of these, as it was the earlier vans that were often used as stores on station platforms. These appeared to not have the cross bracing that was present on the later versions.

John