Siberian Snooper

Many thanks John, just what I needed. It has saved me from making an enormous faux par, the drawing in the bible shows 12 planks for the sides and the photo shows only 10. Which makes a difference to how the end looks.

39 minutes ago, Coppercap said:

Mine arrived today, courtesy of Royal Mail.

 

Firstly, removing the Railmotor's own box from the transit packaging, it was clear that the box had been dropped at some point - NOT by Royal Mail. Well, they might have dropped it at some point, but if they did, it didn't cause this as the transit packaging was undented both inside and out.

   

On opening the box and removing the clear plastic packing from it, I could see the chimney was loose within, so I carefully opened it to make sure I didn't lose the chimney to the carpet, but before I did, I also saw a tiny piece of what looks like brass shining in the light, and part-painted black. I can't work out what it is, maybe a step or something? I can't see another one on the Railmotor like it anywhere. The chimney pressed firmly back into place without any problem.

 

On the track (Gaugemaster controller, on DC), the Railmotor is slightly hesitant and doesn't moves off particularly smoothly, being slightly jerky at realistic stopping and starting speeds (I would be critical seeing it do that at an exhibition), or at slow speeds as if there are tight spots (but it doesn't seem to be at the same point of rotation each time) requiring much tweaking of the controller to try and keep the speed constant, but I'll see how it is after an hour or so in each direction.

 

Lastly, the LED head and tail lamps are very bright at anything other than slow speed. I've not got much of a problem with that, BUT after five minutes or so, I noticed that the LED at the 'trailing' end has failed completely, so it doesn't illuminate in either direction.

 

All that said, it is a fantastic model, superbly detailed and finished.  But, it might have to go back...      

That looks like it might be a foot step, as it's black, it could be from a buffer beam.

The missing bit could be the motion bracket.

I would disconnect the motor and the tender, put a meter to the motor wires and see if you get a circuit, if no, reconnect the tender and repeat the test, if you still don't get a circuit, you don't have a short. Next, connect the meter to one of the motor wires and connect to one of the pickups, do you have a circuit? No, try the other side pickups. Still no! Repeat for the other motor wire. If you're not getting circuits, then the wires have a break in one or the other or both. Whilst the motor is out, put power to it. You will now know where the problem lies, if any.

Any progress on this layout, CK?

8 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

I meant, actually speaking to them, or at least asking them by email.

 

Several members of the GWSG are on RMWeb; this question might do better if asked in the GWR Rolling Stock sub-forum in the Special Interests section of the forum.

Thanks, sorry I got the wrong end of the stick. I will ask the mods, to see if they can shift it to that sub-forum.

9 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

There's a photo on the next page of the 'bible' which - together with this A6 - would suggest that the ends are little or no different to any other contemporary GWR brake - 

 

Barry scrapyard : 30/6/79

A great photo, thanks.  The devil is in the detail, the position of the windows relative to the planking and also that of the hatch. The planking on the AA9 is slightly different to that of the AA6.

I'm also looking at doing the AA6, so that photo is really useful.

Thanks, I can't find anything on the site with regards to brake vans.

Hi All

Does anyone know where I might source photos of AA9 brakes, particularly an end phot. I have done a google search, but that didn't throw up anything.

I have the wagon bible, but there's only a side drawing.

TIA.

I saw Budgie live in Plymouth way back in 70's, my god around 50 years ago!!!

How about hook and eye, made from wire, as it will run as a fixed rake, normal couplings on the outer ends.

2 hours ago, corneliuslundie said:

If train simulation programs are anything to go by, many rural American routes seem to have crossings every mile or so, often ungated. Or at least they used to since most routes are historic.

And of course as has been mentioned previously there is still the problem in a number of cities and towns of the railway line running up the main street. I don't think we have had that problem in the UK for many years, probably since early tramways were converted to proper railways. A late example in south Wales was Argoed where the tramway had run up the high street and was converted to a siding serving the goods yard when the "proper" railway was built. But there are plenty of photos of south Wales villages with a tramway in the main road outside the houses. A slight diversion but it illustrates how one gets to the undesirable situation in many American towns. If the railway is not in the main street it often has a road parallel on either side, with level crossings at intervals.

Jonathan

In some places every few hundred yards, I have travelled most of the major routes in the states and sometimes the loco horn seems to go on for ages, especially near large towns, day or night.

The noisy railway complainers over here would probably have concussion from banging their heads against the wall,you certainly won't get any sympathy over there. 

Whatever you do don't use the coach destroying 60103, for shunting!!

Rob,

would a thin coat of PVA, seal the card? You would probably need to preform the card and coat both sides. It might be worth doing a small piece, as an experiment.

22 hours ago, KNP said:

The one that I half looked at was the Milk Brake van no.1399 but at the moment still looking……couldn’t find a kit of it!

Blacksmiths, did a milk brake, hopefully now that the range has been taken over, it may reappear.

On 20/01/2024 at 10:12, Oldddudders said:

In the heady days of That's Life w Esther Rantzen, suitable names were a regulkar feature. They had stumbled across a business card for an antique dealer rejoicing in the name of Robin Bastard. 

That company had their premises in Yelverton and that was the owners correct name, not a made up one and pronounced as per the Rik Mayall character in The New Statesman.

You could take a series of overlapping photos and send them to id backscenes, I would aim at a 25% overlap as a minimum, they will combined them together and produce a print around 8 or 10 foot long for around £16. Sorry I can't give a link but googling should give you the company website.

I used a medium resolution setting on my camera and they removed some of the unwanted rubbish for me.

MK 1s on the WHR being involved in a crash, I would hope was very low, being single line and lowish speeds. Whether they would be allowed to operate between Carnforth and the start of the single line in Scotland would be a different matter.

I met Terry on the footplate of David Shepherd's 9f, a very nice bloke, it was a couple of years before he passed away. He seems to look a lot taller in the footage, than my recollection.

The support coach could well be the same colour as the tenders.

I've seen the Armstrong goods, I don't remember seeing the 4-4-0.

You must be getting close to getting the track bed built.

It could be freight grey, which is quite dark.

I think that the sheets went to Squires along with the kits,  so online and at shows where they attend, plus the shop in Bognor.  You  may want to contact them to confirm, their online catalogue has not been updated since 2020.

You need to add a 'T' spanner to your PW set, for undoing chair screws.

Sorry, not the Wills sheet, but the SEFincast sheet. I will edit my original post.