One that's staying!

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image.jpeg image.jpeg Managed a short running session today while gardening. Although I am in the process of reducing my rather large fleet here are two that will be staying simply because I like them.
No 31 was a purchase from Bay Models at Carnforth. It's a hand built loco, not sure if it has a prototype or if it's freelance running on a pair of LGB bogies. Looks a real workhorse and runs without problems. Here are a couple of pictures.

The other is standard LGB 2095 OBB diesel fare with mylocosounds sound card. Older style bogies but it has just run and run with only minimal maintenance. Must get into my outdoor railway and do some big improvements next spring!image.jpeg
 
Loco 31 appeared in the Garden Rail magazine many many years back. I'm sure that it was part of a much larger scratch built fleet of locomotives and stock. I also think that it may have been an award winner at G Rail one year.
 
casey jones snr said:
Loco 31 appeared in the Garden Rail magazine many many years back. I'm sure that it was part of a much larger scratch built fleet of locomotives and stock. I also think that it may have been an award winner at G Rail one year.
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Thanks for this info. It's a really nice loco well built with some fine detail. I have to admire the skill in making this. Shame Bay Models packed in I used them quite a lot very few dealers in my neck of the woods.
 
casey jones snr said:
Loco 31 appeared in the Garden Rail magazine many many years back. I'm sure that it was part of a much larger scratch built fleet of locomotives and stock. I also think that it may have been an award winner at G Rail one year.
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Isn't this one of the locos scratchbuilt by David Edgley for his "Chemin de Fer Ardennais"? The railway (but not this particular loco) was featured in:-

Garden Rail No. 6 (May 1994)
Garden Rail No.14 (Mar/Apr 1995)
Garden Rail No. 51 (Nov 1998)

David Edgley's obituary was in the Winter 2000 edition of the G Scale journal.
 
casey jones snr said:
Loco 31 appeared in the Garden Rail magazine many many years back. I'm sure that it was part of a much larger scratch built fleet of locomotives and stock. I also think that it may have been an award winner at G Rail one year.
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I think you are correct Casey. As I remember the CFR was a fictional Swiss line. The guy built copious quantities of Swiss NG Lookalikes with a rather nice Garden Railway. It did feature in the Continental Modeller at some time, but I trashed all my copies just before my recent move.
JonD
 
idlemarvel said:
Yes I love my "cranky" too, it always causes great amusement for onlookers, who can't believe there were real locos like that.
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I'm surprised to hear that you get that reaction, Dave - what is it that they find so surprising about the old "Whizzy-cranks" BoBo? Though they are great locos, whether old or new versions, I've never thought of them as being anything particularly unusual?

Jon.
 
Zerogee said:
I'm surprised to hear that you get that reaction, Dave - what is it that they find so surprising about the old "Whizzy-cranks" BoBo? Though they are great locos, whether old or new versions, I've never thought of them as being anything particularly unusual?

Jon.
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Non-aficionados are used to crank-shafts steam but not on diesels except maybe shunters. They might have been common on the continent but not here in blighty.
 
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