Mike 84C

Thanks for posting, I would not have recognised the place! I used to pass through on Halls ,Black fives etc; even went up the branch to Adderbury and Bloxham where I lived!

In honesty Galteemore & KMCE have said it all. I can only add "proper job".

John, I would like a first series heating/luggage van. Mick

My wife and I went to the West Clare in 2012 and I was surprised the locos were in a not very secure compound and not all of them well sheeted from the elements. I hope things have changed for the better there.

Brilliant Photos to cloudy in Lincolnshire.

What beautiful script those reports are written in. I started to be taught that style in primary school but in came italic so my hand writing looks like neither! I do enjoy these snippets of railway history. And how learned this group is.

Hey!, JHB you saw I filthied up a green A class. I very nearly sprayed it silver, maybe I should have , but I like the green.

Good photos there JHB thanks for posting, hope you had your hiviz vest on!

The bogie ferts in his shop look OK item No;283938069265

Looking good Whizz, a production line! I find its quite hard to stay interested when building on production line status but when you finish wow! instant freight train!

Noel, the A & Sulzer are on Hornby Deltic chassis the C is on a Hornby Electro-Diesel cls 73 I believe. All bought on ebay and run well which is fortunate. All have the later enclosed motor, not the pancake one! Thanks for all the likes guys. Robert, I have started glazing, cutting up Ferro Roche boxes and filing to shape is a dull and boring job! So best man up and crack on. I did wonder if I have overdone the grime but I did use colour photos and filth does seem to be the order of the day in the Crossley era.

JHB, I went again about 10/12 yrs later and missed Lady Edith in steam by 12 hrs; the boiler was still very warm! I took photos then but cannot find them, probably lost in a previous life! And I used a much better camera, always the way.

Weeds help with the narrow gauge atmosphere. I do hope the driver is wearing their ear defenders! I didn't can't drive trains now. .

Just a couple of things I have been doing during lock down. My god the camera is cruel! I hesitated before posting! They both look better in the flesh! Honest! Can I blame the camera phone?

Some little while back there was a conversation about The Lady Edith. Well I took these very poor photos in 1975/6 in Allaire State Park N.J. With one of those Kodak shirt pocket Instamatics.. Who remembers them? best forgotten!

Gosh, JHB I don't think I'll get a camera that close on any of my models! But I do take your point. 7mm but built when? and the rust must mean tinplate?

JHB, is the loco unlined? there seems to be a dark line that follows the splashers & sandboxes outline. Go's around the cab side panel and around the side of the bunker & disappears round the top as if to continue across the bunker rear.

Wonderful wild, bleak scenery surrounded by bogs and the scudding clouds. I do hope that when this b---y cv stuff is over I can get to see this project. Is it the sort of thing that civil engineering students/graduates would be interested in getting into? Thats how the Festiniog got its extension back to BF built. Please keep posting those brilliant photographs.

I was also watching that, someone really wanted those two Park Royals! or maybe it was the Bachmann compartment stock. Ebay is a strange place.

Is the Friends of the East Broad Top still extant as a group? they seemed to stop posting on the Early Rail Group when Yahoo Groups wound up. But they did lots of work at Orbisonia. I went there about 35yrs ago, Orbisonia was a real time warp sort of place as it was/is in a "dry" part of Pennsylvania the liveliest place in town was the Kmart store. The local youth just drove up the main street "draggin main" in loud blingedup cars, always the same direction and tootled back down a side street to start again. The railway was really interesting just like it was the 1950's and the track felt as if nothing had been maintained since the 1950's ! Was very lucky I got to ride the footplate of one the 2-8-2's, it was summer and in high 90's F b--hot! There was talk then of the state taking the railway over, the area has such potential for tourism and it is a very scenic area. Lets hope it takes off and flys. Lots of the pw with hopper wagons stood on it was/is visible on Google Earth. When I find the photos I took I'll post them. Thats really good news John.

Thanks for posting that little gem Tim0, real lateral thinking!

Also thanks from me Ken, those pictures of the Hornby Chassis are very useful and I think using either chassis is making a lot of work which may easily need a lot of cutting . Your scratch built or a Comet chassis sounds like the way to go.

Ken, interestingly on RM WEB there's a thread by BARRY TEN putting a Comet chassis under a Hornby Fowler 2-6-4 body. Although the chassis is designed to fit there seem to be more than enough problems! I thought it may be of interest? And thanks for the very prompt reply to my question. Mick

Are you going to use an etched chassis kit or scratch build one? I bid on a hornby Fowler chassis ( didnt get it!) as I run on 16.5 gauge with the intention of buying that body kit. It seemed like a quick fix to me, am I right? would the Hornby chassis work? Thanks for posting and I look forward to the finished loco.

Brilliant Ken! its almost a shame to paint all that lovely brasswork. For me that 3rd photo in your post really captures the essence of the whole train.