leslie10646

I heartily agree. Wow, 23 feet long and no roofing struts, water tanks etc etc to contend with - you lucky lad.

Keep it up Dane, you'll soon need more wagons!

Well that confirms what I always knew - my tracklaying is appalling!

9 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Interesting! My sharpest curve is, I think, just over 2ft radius........

Impressive strategic planning.

Do you know what is going to win the 3pm at xxxxxxx today?

On 23/12/2022 at 10:06 PM, Leyny said:

Apologies if this has already been asked, but despite owning a heap of coaches and wagons over the last 40 years, I've never actually had any 6-wheeled vehicles. The layout I have is pretty tight (just 8' x 4') and my IRM A's struggle to get round it without derailing (due to the positioning of pointwork, they're a lot better going one way than the other). So how are 6-wheelers on tight layouts? They'd be ideal for GAA/Knock excursion traffic on my layout of the Burma Road, so long as they'd actually run on the thing!

Sorry to have been so long reporting back regarding the suitability of these six wheelers to small radius curves.

I tried my trio over the Setrak points in my yard this evening  - they don't like them!

The point is just under 18 inch radius, so I suggest that these coaches need a bit more!

They are very happy on my normal 2 foot curves and sail over my crossover (medium radius - that's 36 inches, of course). I think if your curves are much under two feet, I'd get the loan of one and try it out!

Thanks for the reminder, Ernie. Steam Railway owes the IRRS for a couple of our photos used in Joe Cassell's Spoil Train article.

As Ivan says above, only the facade is there today, but it is the station which appears in several scenes of the Moustachio'd Man greeting folk like Musso arriving often behind double-headed streamlined pacifics!

It was also the terminal point for my Christmas trainset (see appropriate thread) from Dresden (two arrivals / departures each day).

He's NOT THE FIRST TO MODEL THIS STATION - just go to the Technical Museum in Berlin and in one of the roundhouses you'll find a HO model of the station and the approach lines, including the very roundhouse in which the model is located.

Just stick "technical museum berlin" into Google and flip through the Tripadvisor pictures and you'll find an image of the model (about 20 / 30 pics in!). Worth going to Berlin to see!

It looks a great video, so thanks, George for sharing it!

I don't see many "new trainsets" being shown off yet!

So let me start the ball rolling .....

This was the Family pressie to me - bought at auction at few months ago. A Rivarossi "Henschel Wegmann Train" complete with the streamlined tank locomotive 61.001.

The train was an especially lightweight set - the similarities to the Flying Hamburger etc  are fairly obvious, except that this was STEAM, not diesel. It ran between Dresden and Berlin in the late 1930s on two expresses each way, each day at an average speed of 64mph for the 109 miles.

61.001 was a BALTIC Tank - one of the type that does seem to have done the job! This loco was reputedly capable of over 100mph, but I doubt if such a speed was needed regularly. I bought it because the very similar sister 61.002 (actually a 4-6-6T) provided the frames and 7'6" drivers for 18.201, the only steam engine I have done 100mph behind.

Happy Boxing Day!

A Happy and Blessed Christmas to everyone here.

I hope that Santa brings you all something new for your layouts!

Leslie

Hi Leyney

I have a Peco Setrack point (very small radius) in my goods yard, so I'll shunt my LNWR set over it and report back. They run very well on 2ft curves.

It'll be after Christmas though, we're into Three Line Whip territory now and I have to be a good father / grandfather for the next 48 hours, then me time's me own.

Merry Christmas.

2 hours ago, Lambeg man said:

As a paid up member of the 'Hacking Club' I have to ask did not the GS&WR build some similar looking locomotives at the turn of the century? A narrow boilered 4-6-0 which were called "Long Toms" for some reason. Page 121 of the 'Bible'. Class 362, only three built and all withdrawn by 1928. Not my era but might float someone's boat.

Sorry, Steve, the GSWR loco was inside cylinders and appears to have had a more highly pitched boiler.

I've just had another Hattons e-mail -

Rapido Trains are doing the famous Scottish loco the "Jones Goods" (a 4-6-0 in YELLOW (or green) for you youngsters!) - we should all stop speculating - just live long enough, and EVERYTHING will appear!

Certainly the Highland Railway modellers will be reaching for the 20 year old Malt this Christmas in celebration of what is to come!

Kevin, Your work simply makes my lower jaw hit the floor - you're a man of few "posts", but what work! As Robert said a lot earlier in this thread - double "Wow" no other words for it.

A master class.

Congratulations

My infamy has spread and one of my neighbours bought me a trainset this Christmas. Here seen on the kitchen table with a few of Linda's toys (she loves signal boxes, hence the Kernow one of Bude), the Tayto lorry needs no explanation beyond that she was born almost within the sound of the Tayto factory hooter) and the church is actually sold as "Saint Andrews", which is the church we attend. I didn't add the UTA bus and her Flying Banana!

Damned clever these Chinese, chuffs, bells and whistles no less. Happy Christmas to you all!

When this link arrived in my inbox this morning, I thought that if these guys can do something as obscure as this, then almost anything is possible. Mind you, the Festiniog (all 14 miles of it) has more followers than the all the railways in Ireland.

Robert Shrives will be over the Moon!

https://www.hattons.co.uk/directory/versiondetails/5499/peco_products_oo9_ffestiniog_4_wheel_quarryman&utm_source=klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=modvehid5499-pecoquarrymanfrgreyinstock#models

1 hour ago, Bob229 said:

A Christmas gift for me of a Lima TGV set about 1986 happy days, still have it

Hate to say ANYTHING good about the French, but the TGV was a class train.

A lot better than the rubbish we're asked to travel in the in The Kingdom

Just a little Addendum to the story of Leslie's LNWR coaches.

Wrenneire won't like them - Hattons' producer has devised a simple to open secure packaging for these six wheelers - so no video on how to open the box is necessary!

You'll all see what I mean when the "Snail" versions arrive on your doorstep!

10 minutes ago, Broithe said:

If you look at the houses along the southern section of Cardiff Castle Road in Finglas, you will notice the similarity in style, but that doesn't give away the full history.

They were built by a 'commune' of building workers, for themselves.

My uncle was one, he was the carpenter of the multi-skilled group.

The roofs still look OK.

He died in 2021, aged 103.

Great story, Broithe. Long live the men of skill. I bet he smoked a pipe and enjoyed his glass too.

1 hour ago, Dave Dawes said:

No not me, I purchased my first one with money from my paper round, I was into Airfix kits before trains.

I would say I'm not a collector, I purchase for Exhibition layouts I'm building at the time, then once it goes, so does the stock.

Not this Irish stuff though, the IRM A is beautiful in light green and I have a request for a grey 121 in with Santa , they could be around for a while.

Happy Christmas to you all and a better 2023 

Well done Dave. DIY! Don't wait for someone to do it for you.

I worked for a month one summer and put the proceedings (after paying my Stamp and a bit to Mum for housekeeping) into the Hornby Dublo "Cardiff Castle".

My first trainset?

Andy Cundick, at least, will enjoy this -

CASTLEDERG, 1950: My Dad was the Customs sergeant at the RUC Barrack and I was four years old. A  shop in Omagh (I guess) arranged for Santa to come round on, if my memory hasn't failed, a horse drawn coach from which presents were handed down to the children of customers.

I assume mine was opened on Christmas Day. It was a clockwork train (loco, tender and, I think, two open wagons) with a circle of track.

There's a much sadder sequel. My Dad became Station Sergeant at Carrickmore the following year and on the day we moved into the Sergeant's Quarters (at one end of the barrack - it's still there!) I was sent outside to play. I took my train and was filling the wagons with gravel from the Barrack's drive. A large shadow loomed over me - "What do you think you're doing?" The owner of the voice was one Constable Cecil Cunningham, who I remember as a big amiable fellow, but who was destined to be the sixth RUC man to be killed in The Troubles. So, I'll not forget that trainset (or him).

On a happier note, I'm still playing trains 72 years later!

Now, in motion - arriving at Richhill

As promised my new train, here hauled by the nearest thing I have to a DNGR tank - a GNR Tank. Three Hattons six wheelers. I really wanted the full brake, but thought I might as well have a short train!

54 minutes ago, mfjoc said:

I love the picture of the G&SWR Baltic tank at "Inchicore"

Yes, I would have thought that highly paid folk at RTE would have worked out that the Ampersand was in the wrong place!

It's a particularly nice photo of a  Whitelegg Baltic, which like most Baltics belied its fine appearance with mediocre performance.

Thanks, Jon and David.

David, although I have a GN Working Appendix and WTT somewhere, I doubt if I ever looked the lamp codes up!

So, having fallen for the wind-up, I wonder what gauge you'd be modelling in to CHANGE the lamps each time depending on the type of train. To say nothing of moving the tail lamp to the front of the loco is you were reversing to the shed!.

One plus of all these DCC-fitted disease-als where it's all done for you!

стахановец, my dear David? Not many Workers in USSR worked as hard as that. As such workers were bent on striving even harder for good of The Socialist State, you were right not to use it - after all, you serve TWO Kings!

David, that looks terrific.

Bit worried about the "Great Leap Forward" bit - the last iijit to have one of those starved countlless millions. I hope you're not starving Timothy and Christopher?