Dempsey

High praise, thank you

Stolen at that price

I was tempted too as a challenge haha

Same as eating an elephant, one bite at a time 

I'm always impressed by the level of craftsmanship that go into these builds.

Quite the collection amassing 

Much appreciated 

Barracks Street is now on YouTube. You can follow the progress of the layout throughout the build. Hope you enjoy.

Chris 

1 hour ago, Rob said:

Looks great- really captured the 'unused line' look on the front left

Thanks very much rob

13 minutes ago, Blaine said:

Will this be a portable layout??

Yes, it is my hope when completed that I will take it to exhibitions

Progress continues on the scenery and is nearing a stage of completion that I'm happy with in this area of the layout. 

Your thoughts and comments are as always appreciated. 

One of the strippers I use does state that it can be used on resin however I have never used it on such a surface. I'll include a link for you to make your own determination. 

https://eirehobbies.com/products/paint-remover-240-ml?_pos=1&_sid=53296aa35&_ss=r

IRrailways offer a weathering service for all locomotives ranging from faint to heavy. To the customers own requirements. 

Below are a few examples. 

DM for enquiries and pricing. 

On 17/9/2023 at 10:08 AM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

You seem to have a slight anti-EVE agenda, and I'd like to see your claims on EVE's producing more emissions throughout their entire life cycle than ICE vehicles, supported with a few links.

Not to opinions or Facebook, but to interviews with scientists, or the scientific research.

From my own reading, EVE's on the whole produce less emissions than ICE's in the majority of cases, with some exceptions.

There's a fairly easy to digest piece here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51977625

It's verifiable as opposed to opinion-based.

But to make it more graphic and easier to visualise, still, as I've seen how dirty mining for rare earth minerals can be, can anybody say that oil drilling and refining is clean?

We'll have to accept a little polution along the way, there is no zero-pollution solution, but we also need to be responsible regarding misinformation like "spending six times more emissions to build an EV, hybrid waste of time".

Drifting slightly off-topic, so going back to liquid hydrogen, I feel that our future transport fuel consumption will need to be mixed.

As @murphaph says, different methods of transport will require different fuels.

We have an electric van for work. We went for the cheaper battery with lower autonomy. It was advertised at 280km autonomy but sensible driving gets 300km per charge.

That same technology, perfect for our van, may not work in something larger and heavier, so diversity and innovation will be required.

Sails are being trialled on ocean-going vessels at the moment, and appear (trials are ongoing) to be reducing fuel consumption.

We may see a mix in the future of ICE's, EVE's, HCE's, alternative fuels, hydrogen fuel cells, electric hybrids, and with a bit of luck, we'll see an expansion in the use of mass transit systems like buses and trains where possible.

Heaven forbid that people would start walking and cycling for short trips of a km or two!

That's a mindset that needs to be corrected, not a fuel issue. When I look down at my own belly, and I doubt that I'm alone, I wish I had more excuses to walk or cycle a bit.

Can anybody else here (without a medical condition) say that they would benefit from less 2km cycles?

I'll try go back and find the article for you @DJ Dangerous. But just to clarify my position, I think technology like this would be of more benefit as like I have stated we would be converting various vehicles already in existence environmentally. 

I'm not saying hydrogen is the answer but I think in this age we can create a fuel to use in a combustion engine that would produce zero emissions, using vehicles already in existence without spending six times more emissions to build an EV, hybrid waste of time

Plus we don't have the power generation ability as a nation to supply the draw of power required to charge an electric vehicle for everyone. 

It would be the ultimate recycling or green eco friendly or insert term here move to use and convert modes of transport that have already been produced. 

I think this is deadly. Instead of all that EV nonsense which cost more to produce in emissions then regular combustion the likes of conversion of regular engine to fuels like these will help offset the emissions they have already produced over their lifetime. Jcb has done similar tests and proof of concept work themselves. 

Plus it would be a true testament to these locomotives if they served the network past 100

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Lovely to see this, @Dempsey, have been following from the the brainstorming right through until now, and it's wonderful to see the progress, the vision, the dedication, fair dues!

Thank you. As I've said many times the buildings and now the bridge has been the must enjoyable part of it all and it has to be said a challenge given I'm working off video 

18 hours ago, Rob said:

Looks great

Thanks Rob, it's great to finally run some trains again

6 minutes ago, ttc0169 said:

Nothing beats the unmistakable sound of a GM loco….lovely driving skills @Dempsey

High praise indeed. Just need to build up the courage to program it

Cause sometimes you just want to run trains.  

33 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Lovely stuff, @Dempsey! Really hits the right note. Even the curtains are nice, and that's extra rare.

The curtains were actually in place right up until the yard closed.

The scene continues to slowly develop. 

Here no.156 carries out some shunting of a loaded container flat.

More weathering and scenery work will follow but for now this is the only part of the layout to get any due to working around the bridge supports themselves. 

Your thoughts and comments as always are appreciated. 

Chris

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Absolutely lovely work! Amazing how you've managed to take so much detail from the video.

Thank you very much. A lot of screen shoots were taken which has allowed me to pick out a lot of those details