4mm Far North Line
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Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
Side effect of some photos of coaches today - two locos hanging about the station. A take on what Peter Drummond might have done for a 0-6-2T, based on his later loco on the GSWR, and an excuse to use the excellent Hornby J15 chassis and Ben Wyvis on shed getting used to its new tender, with a cab shelter. This I took from a photo of a pre war Ben with one such fitted and was originally on another of my builds but they didn't get on well so the two locos swapped tenders and now both are happy with their partners. Its funny how individual engines can have their quirks, but then what with their Frankenstein origins its little wonder that some individualism creeps in.
D6356
Western Thunderer
Lovely pics, I guess drawbar heights and lengths can differ just a fraction and that can make for a happy "marriage" or not. On the FR attempts to swap Linda and Blanche tenders did not work so it happens in the real world, well narrow gauge. I think Std classes might have been easier, at least within classes.
Robert
Robert
Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
Two years later..... 
how did that happen....any way, time for a catch up I guess. Here is the latest on the line - a Drummond liveried Rapido Big Goods doing some day to day work in between railtour duties as per 103's Kyle Line work. I was resisting this loco until I saw the livery samples a few months ago...
how did that happen....any way, time for a catch up I guess. Here is the latest on the line - a Drummond liveried Rapido Big Goods doing some day to day work in between railtour duties as per 103's Kyle Line work. I was resisting this loco until I saw the livery samples a few months ago...
Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
Ha, Ha... never went away, just didn't get around to posting....I must remedy that though....
Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
So, what else did I do on my holidays.....scratched a long lasting itch about the BR 2-8-2, after three abortive efforts over the decades. This one is based on the P2 and a Clan body and is an alternative look at something that never was anyway. 5'8" drivers and done as an MT rather than a freight loco. The valve gear is a bit of a cop out, being the Hornby original, and although I do have bits for a replacement it will mean more chassis hacking - of which a lot was done to get where I am with it, and as the years progress I realise tasks have to be prioritised....
Oz7mm
Western Thunderer
How perverse you are Ben Alder. While most of us run models of real trains in imaginary surroundings you run imaginary trains in models of real surroundings. Long may it continue - I wonder what you will come up with next.
Many moons ago, I had a book Locomotives that never were. It was my son's favourite.
John
Many moons ago, I had a book Locomotives that never were. It was my son's favourite.
John
andytrains
Member
How about a name for the 2-8-2. Munro class. 282 names to choose from.
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simond
Western Thunderer
Sounds eminently plausible - they look a bit newer than 1891!
Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munro's Tables, in 1891
Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munro's Tables, in 1891
Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
I had one of the lined black ones on order but when I saw the livery samples I changed to the Drummond one as I already have a DJH one in plain BR black - here are the two side by side...
And another look at the oldie. The Rapido knocks it in to a corner.....
Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
And as for Ben Alder.......
Along with the rest of the gang.....I got a bit carried away....
Ben Alder
Western Thunderer
Ha Ha....started off doing a model of Thurso on my own which reached a state of completion as far as a sixteen year old could achieve in a ramshackle shed with very little in the way of appropriate motive power and Helmsdale (with my uncle c1970 - it got nowhere) and when the Mainline/Airfix revolution happened spent a good while doing what I would call freelance generic modelling, which I enjoyed but eventually tired of and after some more focused HR models on supposed stations started concentrating on actual locations, which I found far more satisfying. With regard to the current set up, the loco variety was sparse and once I'd built or converted all of them I was left with that need to build more stuff. To increase the HR choice I did toy with going back to the mid forties, but that would have meant a lot of stock change in wagons and coaches, not to mention signalling and building colour changes, so the answer was to project the survival of the indigenous fleet by another decade or so. This was followed on by creating some of Peter Drummond's proposals for the HR and also some never were's based on what the Drummond brothers built at the other Scottish railways they worked at. The alternative BR Standard ones were a longstanding backboiler and most were done during lockdown and after over a three year period, and like a lot of my work, grew in the execution, based on a ga
thering of second hand stuff over the years when such things could be picked up cheaply. One or two I did as static but I like to see engines work so the rest were motorised. Hopefully I have reached the end of all of this although there are three Jidencos waiting attention. One is all but done, being an almost total rebuild and should break cover soon.
The Small Bens were based round Hornby Radial chassis - bought during fire sales - and I had a pile of spare bodies at one stage which led to this little amuse bouche, inspired from a Photoshop job someone posted on a FB imaginary locos group. It is unpowered although on retrospect, I think I could have fitted it with a motor, but a Replica powered underframe is waiting to be married to a LMS Period 1 coach for it.
A take on what might have been of one of the Duke of Sutherland's engines, had it survived until nationalisation....