Making a New Start

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Finally finished the two new cabooses. Here's the closed one.

and the other one, with added ladders made from styrene square section rod with garden wire rungs. Thanks for the wheels, Ian.

 

[C&S]

Another shot from the archives.

Must get to run some trains soon - trouble is the layout's become a dumping ground for other models at present.

 

[stockers]

Nice trestle - might be a compact layout but the detail is brill.

 

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A couple of views of the oil depot at Hogwood.

 

[Don Gilham]

Excellent Giles !!!

 

[trammayo]

Nice one! So much of interest - never tire of this thread.

 

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Met a mate at a show last Saturday and was given a trio of figures he'd been given but didn't want as he's not modelling in G. So, I've got to find a use for a couple of LGB engineers (one of the seated ones and the other standing with his arm raised). Think number 2 will get a pose make-over once I've decided where to place him - all the locos are fully crewed. The third figure has ended up in the Sales section as he's a very European style of rail worker - seated and weraing a uniform jacket and cap; don't know his origin but LGB seems likely. He has what is either a very fat control lever in one hand, or a very fat truncheon (if he were a security guard).

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At last Hogwood has someone to work the switch at the junction: - Cy Berman, seen here cleaning the windows of his cabin. I must try and find him a bucket; I'm sure the bits box has one in it.

[Edit 2] Looking at this shot again, I'd say that Cy is a bit underweight. Think his leg muscles could do with some building up. I feel a course of Miliput might benefit him - top half looks OK though.

 

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We hired on a new yard worker yesterday at Cattewater - "Gris" (Larry) Griswold. Here he is, having just finished loading #4's fuel bunker.

 

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The bogie cabooses left today for a new life on a railroad in the Eastern States. Here, the Conductor checks his watch before leaving Cattewater on the passenger caboose bound for Bonneyville for the last time. At the junction the van will have its bogies removed before being loaded onto a standard gauge flat for onward transit.

 

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The red caboose was also in the yard waiting for a train to take it down to Bonneyville. It's gone, too, now.

This week-end a friend's coming round for a photographic/running session and there might be a short video, too. Then I'll have to work out how to post it here.

 

[trammayo]

Parting is such sweet sorrow? Apart from the great creation job of the two caboose, they really did look good on your line. Look forward to more photographs (and the video).

 

[C&S]

Parting is such sweet sorrow?

Well, kind of, Mick. But it was getting a bit "more cabooses than sense" on the line - as we already have three Bobbers plus the two passenger vehicles, which is currently one more than is normally needed. Add in the fact that as bogie vehicles they would take the place of a freight car in a train when occupying the fiddle yards, and you see why they were sold out of service. I just had a good time playing with a lot of non-matching bits and pieces to come up with a couple of believable cars.

 

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Three of us spent a very successful day filming and photographing the railroad. Several run-bys, switching - including into a facing spur using the chain, and trains passing; also several "stills" of some of the scenes around the line. Don't know when these images will be available (or how I get them onto the site; they are likely to arrive on a DVD).

Besides this I took a limited number of views, starting with the diesel on a timber train at Hogwood.

 

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Warner and Pete outside Breen's General Store at Hogwood.

 

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A few more, starting with #4 awaiting its next duty. BTW those pulleys at the top of the sand tower are press-studs.

#5 rolls into Cattewater on a passenger train

#1 takes the empty flat cars back to Clydes Creek

#4 at Hogwood.

 

[yb281]

Love the shots of the diesel running between the houses.

 

[C&S]

Thanks for that one, Mel. Don't know why I never thought of taking a picture from that angle before, but having seen it I was pleased, too. At present I'm experimenting with all sorts of new takes on the line, and will post more later.

 

[trammayo]

Nice shots! The crossing pic is very effective

 

[mike]

simply stunning, love the atmospher:love:

 

[Hofabooz]

Hi Giles

looking great lots of great details making up an impressive view.

Regards

Mark