Gavin Sowry
Garden Railroader and Raconteur
Father Christmas arrived at the Taita Gorge Railway last night.
Merry Christmas. Post your Railway Christmas Pics Here.
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Alpineandy
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Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to One and All !
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Elmtree Line
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Yes indeed 
Alpineandy
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The real stuff has now appeared !
peterbunce
1880's Colorado Narrow gauge on 45mm track
Hi, Well it has for a short while and in stages not stopped snowing round here - the roads are no good for cars as they are skating sideways on ice.
However, I braved the conditions, and yes it was snowing and got out my snowplough equipped Loco - DSP 69, built on a Bachmann Big Hauler chassis.
The snow was and is deeper than the snopwplough, but is does have one, here are a couple of photos from my endevaours - first number 69 and a coach approaching the depot.
A second one of the depot and associated buildings with deep white tops to the rooves!
Yours Peter
However, I braved the conditions, and yes it was snowing and got out my snowplough equipped Loco - DSP 69, built on a Bachmann Big Hauler chassis.
The snow was and is deeper than the snopwplough, but is does have one, here are a couple of photos from my endevaours - first number 69 and a coach approaching the depot.
A second one of the depot and associated buildings with deep white tops to the rooves!
Yours Peter
peterbunce
1880's Colorado Narrow gauge on 45mm track
Hi,
Three more photos, this time of my village of Sycamore Creek, all the buildings are scratch built, with more almost completed (except transfers) which are lurking inside the house. There is a doubling of the area allocated for the village, that needs some more to fill the area, so more will be built.
So here are some photos with the village all (extra) deep crisp & even!
A view down the main street with the church, and pastors house to the left of it, (this house has 3 dormer windows which provided some extra thinking re them!). The grey walled building is a small shop, that is the Post office - we are opening new ones here!
Having moved the camera through 90 degrees the fronts can be seen on what is the railroad side of the village, with the post office, a small saloon, the large produce building lording it over everything, and behind that the depot and DSP number 69. The buried track is at the back of the buildings. In front is a blue 'shotgun' house, (so named as a shotgun could be fired through the front door and the shot would pass down the side hall and out the end without much damage) which is scheduled fror a move shortly.
Right at the extreme left hand edge is a boiler making shop that sits on a large 3ft x 2ft paving slab, which it slides over.A companion buiolding is scheduled to be built onto a 2 x 2 slab, then between them will be a gantry crane to shift their products around, and onto flatcars parked on the siding in front of them.
A final one, when the photographer has risen off his (niow wet & cold) knees, of the top of the buildings. The big shop (was the second building I made) which now has a companion building , this building needs a new name on the nameboard - the old one which was in paper has weathered away, that is one of the transfers that will be in the next, quite large, order.
Yours Peter.
Three more photos, this time of my village of Sycamore Creek, all the buildings are scratch built, with more almost completed (except transfers) which are lurking inside the house. There is a doubling of the area allocated for the village, that needs some more to fill the area, so more will be built.
So here are some photos with the village all (extra) deep crisp & even!
A view down the main street with the church, and pastors house to the left of it, (this house has 3 dormer windows which provided some extra thinking re them!). The grey walled building is a small shop, that is the Post office - we are opening new ones here!
Having moved the camera through 90 degrees the fronts can be seen on what is the railroad side of the village, with the post office, a small saloon, the large produce building lording it over everything, and behind that the depot and DSP number 69. The buried track is at the back of the buildings. In front is a blue 'shotgun' house, (so named as a shotgun could be fired through the front door and the shot would pass down the side hall and out the end without much damage) which is scheduled fror a move shortly.
Right at the extreme left hand edge is a boiler making shop that sits on a large 3ft x 2ft paving slab, which it slides over.A companion buiolding is scheduled to be built onto a 2 x 2 slab, then between them will be a gantry crane to shift their products around, and onto flatcars parked on the siding in front of them.
A final one, when the photographer has risen off his (niow wet & cold) knees, of the top of the buildings. The big shop (was the second building I made) which now has a companion building , this building needs a new name on the nameboard - the old one which was in paper has weathered away, that is one of the transfers that will be in the next, quite large, order.
Yours Peter.
