grandad

If you want something Russian, have a look at my 00 trans Siberian sleeping car made to commemorate a double anniversary trip in one in 2005. Me 65 and we wed for 40 years. Also have a look at Red Star Railways http://www.redstarrailways.com

Wow!!!!!!! Looks amazing! Very well done.

 

Those red carriages in the background would look very much in keeping with the Inchicore Test Train, which it hauled when on trial. I've seen coaches like that painted in the older CIE dark green and they look very convincing.

 

The loco is a masterpiece!

The carriages are Ratio Midland Non Corridor painted in a Midland darkish red

And now for something completely different: a model of CIE No. CC1, generally known as the Turf Burner, was a prototype 0-6-6-0 articulated steam locomotive designed by Oliver Bulleid to burn turf (an Irish term for peat used as fuel) and built at CIÉ's Inchicore Works in Dublin. CC1 shared some, but not all, of the characteristics of Bulleid's previous attempt to develop a modern steam locomotive, the Leader. Like the one completed Leader, CC1 had a relatively short career and was never used in front-line service. It was the last steam locomotive to be constructed for an Irish railway. It is scratch built from plasticard on a shortened Lima chassis.

There is a story told that he once vented his frustration, saying "Why can I not find the people to make my ideas work?"

 

His style was idiosyncratic (like Citroën before Peugeot took over), and he could certainly seem aloof or remote. The correspondence between him and Ricardo Engineering suggests a man who would listen but always go his own way.

 

I'm not sure that he was as unpopular in Inchicore as some might think - if anything, as a devout Catholic, he had the respect of Inchicore men, if not their loyalty.

 

In that repressed era, I think those who dealt with Bulleid (or the aftermath of his work) had to be equivocal about their views. Thus you will find material saying that R.A. Riddles on British Railways had quite a bit of respect for Bulleid, and other material that suggests Riddles thought Bulleid to be a charlatan!

It is interesting that our Mr. Bulleid had connections with Ricardo Engineering because I ended up working for them for 10ish years when they bought the company that I was working for - F F Developments, pioneers of 4 wheel drive transmissions.

I have come to the conclusion described by murrayec. I fact there is one photo which does not show a bundle of tubing alongside the chassis member, which suggests that it is the "other side" that I have been looking for. This is what bears out murrayec's observation. So, construction will continue based on this assumption. Many thanks for all of the help given. When this one is finished, it is back on to Leader - version 3!!

PS, thank you Garfields Ghost for your welcome.

Glad you mentioned High Level Kits. Yes, their motor bogies are great. I have used 2 so far, one to remotor a Triang Blue Pullman and one for a tender drive for a Crampton model. Their gearboxes are good as well.

Wrennaire, that is brilliant - thanks

There are four pages on the turf burner, 0-6-6-0T CC1 as OVSB designated it, in Brian Haresnape's A Pictorial History of Bulleid Locomotives - fascinating stuff. Apparently he had obtained approval for the construction of 50 turf burning/oil fired steam locos, the intention being for these to be a production run of the turf burner when that had been proved in turf burning mode - sadly it was not to be.

 

Stephen

I now really need to understand where this feature is on the opposite side of the loco. Is this feature on the same end as it is on photographs or at the other end?

I am pretty confident that the intermediate windows are on both sides regardless of the offset boiler

I am in the process of scratch building a model of Bulleid's turf burner. I have a copy of Ernie Shepherd's book but all the photographs of the loco seem to be of the same side. I need a photo of the other side. I need to understand what differences there are between both sides. For example. At one end, furthest from the camera, is a set of small recessed panels which may be connected to the , presumably, turf bunker. Do these appear on the other side of the loco? The photos show a pair of windows between both driving cabs which I assume are part of the gangway between the cabs. Do these windows appear on the other side because the boiler is offset to allow for the gangway.

Have you tried http://www.diesel-trains.co.uk/Lima_replacement_motor_kits.html? I haven't used them, but found the site when I thought that I may need to get a replacement in the future.