Axlebox

http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brcoke/h32035079#he697543 http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brcoke/h32035079#he697543 ...do I need to start eating my own hat?

Pourcy/Paul I understand it was the first job he had drawn up that went off to be produced (it was the pipe run hole modification in the gusset plate), however he didn't specify which side had the pipe run gussets (and it wasn't picked up when checked or by the foreman on the shop floor until a number of wagons had been assembled with holey and none holey gussets...I can't imagine they had put many together before they noticed!) I for one was convinced by the story however I'll eat my hat if some one comes up with a picture of the 2 or 3 wagons involved. I doubt its a lesson Ray forgot,...which is why he still talks about it 60 odd years later! Regards Duncan

...after a tip off at the York show this weekend...Revoboy has been crawling around the back streets of County Durham taking pictures of lamp posts again, I know, I was in the get away car...expect news of his new discovery soon (which if I'm honest was quite impressive and I'd probably buy a couple myself if someone cast them...oh bu99er, they've got me at it now)

...for once the troublesome truck is innocent...I reckon it was the old mine workings under the track...

...the problem with building rolling stock today is the quality of the buffers outshines all other castings...luckily, they're on the ends where you don't get to see much of them...now if only someone introduced a decent range of vacuum cylinders, oh wait someone has, so what's next...before the lampost appreciation society jump in...I'm thinking of something small, squareish and oily/greasy...

...so pleased the film ends just before the SPAD at the end...or was the signalman waving a green flag...trying to stop a train coming down from Consett was always a difficult task...and if this hasn't been aired before... http://www.derbysulzers.com/24102.html Duncan

Poursee It doesn't look black to me (unlike the factory behind)...but it doesn't look ice blue either...how old were these wagons by 1967...could it be very weathered and faded after 10 years on the road?

...nice Pulverite wagon at 9.40.

Evening Tony Pleased you enjoyed Blackgill...and I can vouch its as much fun to operate as it is to watch from the front.(having done both!) The layout is basically a passing loop on a single line (although you can't see this from the front) and trains are run to a timetable which usually ensures 2 trains pass each other in the middle...but not always...so from time to time trains are held at signals until the train coming the other way clears the section (the signals are partly interlocked). When we get the chance though we'll storm up the bank and clatter down the hill...the down side to this is the paying public only get a fleeting view of Eddie's work...just like the real thing I suppose. Cheers Duncan

...there was me minding my own business at Model Rail Scotland this weekend...until...I swear there was a Hornby Q6 (ex works by the look of it) on shed at Blackgill...anyone get a photograph?

Ian Great stuff...amazing how easily the wagons just crumple in impact... Duncan

Poursee, I suspect there may be a murder on rmweb if you keep using/abusing that PIC of Mr Franks...

<<Knocking up the two square holes at the top is being a bit problematical at the mo.>> ...if your making them in styrene...drill 2 round holes and then force in 2 bits of square bar (the right size) slightly tapered to ease thier passage...

Pourcy likes boxes for axles aswell...hes just got some weird lamp post fetish thing going at the moment...some nice cast axleboxes will soon cure that...or perhaps I may have to nick him a real lampost so he can put it up in his garden...

The next logical step has to be...axleboxes I like axleboxes Axlebox (that's my name this time)

crunch time... https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/v/t1.0-9/11038997_820269281353467_6266440991086667724_n.jpg?oh=dd94aa6aa93a9dca5fb419aa448606e5&oe=5734ED27 https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11083685_820267561353639_798033961996400359_n.jpg?oh=53e9fb910917a799acf77161e939e6ee&oe=57355AAE

Lorries?...couldn't see anymore 16tonners in that collection, but loads of really good period road vehicles...

Poursee...did you find this whilst looking for something else?...just wondered...

...I like the way Poursee even cooks on his workbench...nice lamps BTW Dave...suspect I might just have to buy some of you next month...thanks for the curry invite...sounds good to me...I'll put it to the gov next time I see him...

Tunnicks indeed...he gets like that if he hasn't had a drink...probably time to take him out and give him a good watering again...I hear Glasgow can be good for this towards the end of February... ...I'd buy shares in Williams bros brewery now if I were you... ...next he'll be ranting about bus shelters, lamp posts and petrol pumps... A/box ps...£10 says he'll bang his head the first time he gets on the Subway...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/22736452852/in/photostream/ ...again no 16 tonners...however Poursea, that miniature siding just gets better and better with a turnplate and an extra siding at right angles... ...back on topic next time, promise... A/box

https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/23482341361/ ...I did a 'double take' with this 16 tonner...at first sight this photograph appears to be from the 1920s or 1930s

...no that really is the noise a 16 tonner makes if you hit it hard enough with something more solid...

...I see Poursea's dictionary eating has got as far as the letter R

...up north we have an onomatopoeic word for this kind of mishap...dunch