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1908 Beckton gas works taking on water from the canal aquaduct on the Alcester branch HC 656 "Somerton" belonging to CJ Willis on the Birmingham & North Warickshire Borsig 5896 "Marquesa", No15 of the Coquimba railway (FC de Coquimba) in chile a GW bus at Paddington MW 237 "Nellie" belonging to the Met for shunting Neasdon EMU depot. it was the only steam loco in the Met fleet light enough to cross the Brent river bridge, it had just come into service here at publication replacing an 1886 Hudswell clarke portrait of old David Joy, there is a lengthy 8 part article "links to the evolution for the locomotive, basically a history of locomotives with drawings from David Joy's diary Santiago shed

Still been working on a few things here and there but not much to post about, though now ive got the scenic break backscene properly mounted on 2 brackets which form the ends of the embankment and the backscene slots onto bolts in these

sorry wrong thread

reminder to not stray far from rail mounted for too long

1907 Cardiff Carlisle Glasgow central Clapham (Yorks) Churchill viaduct on the West Midland wagons being loaded with heather Port Louis on Mauritius

ive been watching some of these in the last few days, lots of steam in Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala and Ecuador in the 2000's https://www.youtube.com/@trianghornby/videos it really makes me want to model it

without a link to see it, "gauging wagon" sounds like loading gauge which checks the width and height of structures surrounding the track like platforms and bridges

just one thing im wondering is that the breach end needs more support under it because its heavier, a bigger saddle and another axle or 2 while this is a lot bigger its the only example ive got is from Royal Ordnance Coventry. note that the breach end has twice as many axles under it

a few weeks ago, a angle pois type lamp arm sat on top of a full skip, i couldnt pass it by just like this but a bit rusty and missing head, foot and 2 springs put on the head from a little flexi stand lamp we're not using, had to shorten the cable length between the head and switch so it sits at the joint. it will be a good replacement for my current desk lamp

ive got about 40 of those Deagostini "Combat Tanks" collection from about 15/16 years ago, but now im having a clear out and have 2 big cardboard boxes of these wasting space. this isnt a for sale post just wanting advice on the right places to look into about finding someone that might be interested in taking the whole lot off me (example photo off the internet, not mine)

ive now found a bit about it using reverse image search which gives a Russian railway forum, "Molodets" at Odessa port in 1869 http://forum.modelldepo.ru/showthread.php?t=9850&page=35&styleid=32

this just came up on my facebook and thought of sharing it