Sasquatch

One can't watch this without wondering what all the brilliant and elegant victorian/edwardian engineers who built the railways would have made of all the grimey beasts in the smog of their future. Even the futuristic stuff in the film has gone now! Thanks for posting this one Chard.

Please for give my input on this thread of late. Goathland has been put into storage along with Dunster my other layout due to a heavy work load. It could be time to talk about the stock. My intention is to run trains from two eras, the LNER days and the present. Preserved lines make great models as you can really run what ever you like. Locos; in preservation this could include anything from Hogwarts Castle, Tornado, Green Arrow to almost any diesel. During later LNER days a mix of ex North Eastern and smaller Gresley types. Coaches; BR mk.1s, the Gresley teak rake, a pullman train for the present. LNER coaches running at present include kit built Gresley non corridor sets and Hornby Gresleys. Maybe some North Eastern stock should be added but there are no kits on the market. Goods; Here is a list of goods trains so far for LNER period; Short rake of large hoppers, LNER fitted vans, Rake of unfitted stock, Various bolsters and plate wagons,Vans for pigeon and parcels, Privite owner coal wagons,but none from the area! Plenty of brake vans including NE ballast brake. ....and the fish train (under construction). Also I have BR stock vans,16,21&24T minerals,oil tanks etc. BR parcels waiting to be built. And then there's the odd piece of stock I have been accumulating which appears in all the photos of the present day ie; st.Ival milk tank, LMS double bolster,pipe gunpowder etc. I`ve bid on the Bachmann united molasses tank on ebay several times but they fetch too high a price. So stock from 3 eras of which ex North Eastern Railway is the most costly or time consuming to build. (I`m on a budget these days).

Here is a list of goods trains so far for LNER period; Short rake of large hoppers, LNER fitted vans, Rake of unfitted stock, Various bolsters and plate wagons,Vans for pigeon and parcels, Privite owner coal wagons,but none from the area! Plenty of brake vans including NE ballast brake. ....and the fish train (under construction). Also I have BR stock vans,16,21&24T minerals,oil tanks etc. BR parcels waiting to be built. And then there's the odd piece of stock I have been accumulating which appears in all the photos of the present day ie; st.Ival milk tank, LMS double bolster,pipe gunpowder etc. I`ve bid on the Bachmann united molasses tank on ebay several times but they fetch too high a price. So stock from 3 eras of which ex North Eastern Railway is the most costly or time consuming to build. (I`m on a budget these days).

No doubt someone on here will help ;-)

Hi Mike, Really enjoying this topic. Bridges and viaducts are great fun to build and a must on any layout if you want achieve dramatic effects for model trains. I like your track plan but beware of steep gradients, some of my locos can't climb the 1 in 50 up the viaduct on my layout but this could be due to the garage floor slopping away! On your plan you may want to consider a passing loop on the red crossover line. Shaun

Cheers Matt! Keep forgetting about my modelers license. Steel and wood imports might make for interesting trains too.

Still learning all this computer wizardry and RMweb business. A recent question posted yesterday has brought to light some points which seem to confirm my suspicions about fish traffic being attached to passenger trains, behind the engine!! My friend Boris who I consider an authority on all things NYMR, owns a fish crate branded

Thankyou for taking the time gentlemen you have been most helpful and kind. If you've a couple of minutes to spare you may find my blog interesting. Click on the link below!

Oh no, not my idea of a thing of beauty. We just wondered how they ever moved at all! I know they're quite popular with the guys over here though. Beauty lies within the eye of the beholder after all!!

No contest for me.........

Seeing as there are about 500 of us on line right now I thought I'd take the opportunity to see if anyone can through any light of fish traffic if any that would have used the Whitby to York line which is now the North York Moors Railway.

This one is from Brighton England, not to be confused with Brighton Oregon!

Yes, very impressive Mikkel. Quite an odd looking prototype which always makes a great model subject. Interesting point is that all the stock apears to be GW... In that 1926 picture.

This happened to me too. Wake up at 04:30 to the cat trying to get the bedroom door open then there's no going back to sleep so I get up and get a little modelling time in! It's 20:05 here by the way! The weather here was very mild this afternoon I was working out side in the workshop in a Tshirt!!

Tony, Thanks for the link I had forgotten about the 51L NER dia. F6 kit! Yes I think you're right about the van being a NER road van which were 30` overall which makes more sence, I guess one needs to be added to my list of stock to build. It shouldn't be too hard as it's not much different to the bogie van (see my gallery). The livery on my LNER dia.37 is copied right down to the number, from the picture in Tatlows book. It is ex-works so it is posible that the Ns were added at a later date! Further investigation has shown that most of these vans were sent north of the border. Still it's a nice model and looks great behind some non corridor stock.

Weathering has a sort of pain barrier that needs to be broken before reults like this are posible. This thread sure is helping with my pain barrier where all that plasticy looking Hornby coaching stock is concerned. This is inspirational work and on such a marathon task too!

Great job! Nice to see someone`s having fun. Is that a jar of weathered black or rust? and all washed down with a brew

A rake of fitted stock only looks any good if there is a lot of variation in the oxides,bauxites and browns not forgetting the odd GWR grey one too!

The shade usually doesn`t matter after the grime goes on! Although I`m finding texture does, older models were finished with railmatch brushed straight from the jar. These however were srayed with rather thin paint. Results are very pleasing.

The subject of my first ever blog is more about learning as I go on this topic rather than profess to that which is already known. Intending to further prototypical operation on the Goathland layout I have set about building fish vans. Goathland, being on the Whitby to York line must have had fish traffic. There must also be some RMWeb brotherhood members with some knowledge of this subject, who I hope to fish out and interrogate. Progress so far has been sought from Peter Tatlows excellent volumes on LNER wagons. Construction of two diagram 143 vans from Parkside and a diagram 37 from scratch using products from Evergreen have been completed albeit the weathering. Plans are afoot to build a North Eastern Railway diagram F6 and LNER diagram 23 from scratch also, as I`m quite pleased with the 23' build. I have no evidence that any of these vans ever ran over the line making it a red Herring but the picture in An Illustrated History of LNER Wagons Vol4A just cried out to be modeled. Both the NER & LNER recognized the need to run fish traffic in passenger trains and this will be considered when running trains on the layout. Would the fish vans have been attached to local passenger services to coincide with the tidal landing of the local catch one wonders, and even more baffling is how would the empties have found their way back....... LNER diagram 37 from plastic card. LNER diagram 143. By mistake these vans received 3 coats of paint. Krylon red brown primer,LNER dull teak (because I neglected to label the jar) and Precision red oxide P67. Next time I`ll just stick with the primer as it is spot on! . The older build on the left (about the time parkside cast it on to the market) sports brushed Railmatch bauxite done in the days before airbrushing was an option, and shows the vivid difference to the Phoenix oxide. This matt paint holds weathering powder fast as can be seen on the LMS van, which also received LNER oxide. The grime covers even the worst sins. During a search conducted this afternoon I quite by chance came accross this photograph of Whitby yard. Having already received a reply from the website owner Mr D. Heys most kindly allowing me to reproduce it here, I waste no time. Getting back to all things fishy, there apears to be a small rake of fish vans in this fantastic shot. My eyesight not being as good as it was I`m going to stick my neck out and say that looks like a diagram 37 second from left. This is definately good enough evidence for me! At last this has been dug out to finish it , however I have moved the build here