Portchullin Tatty

The line to Ullapool was fully surveyed, but did have some fierce gradients (1:37 I think) and having driven the route only a couple of months ago and walked a number of the mountains, I can certainly vouch that it is a bit steep!

None of them were built, so let your imagination go!!

Is Paul having html problems? I thought he was spending too much time with the "commentator" (see Captain K's blog....................).

The Jones Goods came south, in period too...................

I am not sure that I will offer my black 5s; I hear anything that turns up on Barrow Rd in LMS livery goes in a can of paint stripper!!

Very tasty Morgan; is that with a bow pen?

I am struggling to see blemishes in it; except of course how clean it is but I suspect you will be doing something about that........!

Wouldn't a K1 be a bit lost for your tastes?

You can see that the lattice has structural strength, even in its scaled down form - it is spanning a scale 200 ft with no intermediate supports!

Well done, it must be satisfying to see the end of that task approaching.

It does look fine but the buffers are a tad clean for such an obviously working loco!!!

Lino will have been all the rage since the 1930's and I doubt it was "company specific".

I recall the first house we bought peeling up three layers of it, each with newspapers of the era that it was laid below. An absolute timewarp - there were even reports on the votes in Czechoslovakia as to whether they would be annexed by Germany. Vote one = no, vote two = no; ..................... what happened next!!!!

Looking good Craig - the same number of steps forward as have been taken backwards.

Hopefully with the flaking paint issue firmly buried, the blockage on construction can be removed. When shall I tell Terry to book you in?

I tend to find that plastic open wagons have a tendancy to bow inwards overtime - very unprototypical as they would tend to bow outwards (if at all for steels). Make a lid of close fitting plasticard and cement it in place a few mm below the top of the wagon, upon which a load can be rested.

The guard strap (safety hangers?) mod is worthwhile and not one I have thought of before but it lifts the quality of the brakegear quite a lot.

Craig,

When painted, does the diffrence in texture between ply sleepers and the plastic ones stand out?

I have always been a bit shy of mixing them due to this reason.

Mark