Today on the WGLR

Sun's come out, so I've posed some better photos.

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Comparison with No.5.

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Those horrible knuckle couplings will be first thing to go, closely followed by the white wheel rims. Conversion to battery RC is a given (quite easy on these) plus maybe a very gentle weathering.

Not quite sure how it fits into the WGLR fleet? Maybe they bought Lyn from the SR and never got around to repainting her, maybe she'll just be a perpetual visitor? :bigsmile::bigsmile:
 
a before and after version ,nice adition to the fleet mell:thumbup:
 
nice... as you say very light weathering, coupler and dark wheels... mmmmmmm lovely. I think the US factory confused the paperwork and took an option contract from L&B as an order for two. by the time the error was noticed the loco was mid atlantic and it ended up at the wglr, who were already very pleased with their own, at a knockdown price - and as you say no one ever bothered to repaint it. They WERE american built right? Happy Birthday!
 
Mel - lovely lovely lovely! A light dusting of dirt on the chassis, and ditching the white rims will make a massive difference, along with repositioning the smokebox door handles! I know they could be at any angle, but I always think they look best at about 6.37!
 
yb281 said:
jameshilton said:
Mel looks like you enjoyed your birthday and the Baldwin does indeed look fabulous, I can understand why it is becoming a firm favourite.
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It got even better today James. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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Lovely Birthday present Mel :love:
 
Leased from the 'big railway', in times of need.
Looks great Mel.
 
stockers said:
Leased from the 'big railway', in times of need.
Looks great Mel.
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Like you're thinking mate. Lyn was leased to the WGLR by the Southern when the L&B closed in 1935 following the success of No.5. She helped out with the increased traffic for RAF Ffynon Garew in the build up to WW2 and officially passed into WGLR ownership in 1940 by which time no-one could find time to re-paint her. :bigsmile:
 
yb281 said:
Sun's come out, so I've posed some better photos.

Comparison with No.5.

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Not quite sure how it fits into the WGLR fleet? Maybe they bought Lyn from the SR and never got around to repainting her, maybe she'll just be a perpetual visitor? :bigsmile::bigsmile:
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Now, I've always liked the quirky individual nature of the W&GLR and its rolling stock, but now what do I see?

STANDARDISATION! :@

Ah well, I guess that's progress for you....

(Nice locos BTW!)
 
yb281 said:
stockers said:
Leased from the 'big railway', in times of need.
Looks great Mel.
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Like you're thinking mate. Lyn was leased to the WGLR by the Southern when the L&B closed in 1935 following the success of No.5. She helped out with the increased traffic for RAF Ffynon Garew in the build up to WW2 and officially passed into WGLR ownership in 1940 by which time no-one could find time to re-paint her. :bigsmile:
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Yebbut how does that explain that the SHLR has her too?

We'll have to do some Lyn double-heading mate :thumbup:
 
Been doing loads of hanging around lately due to MIL's condition, waiting for phone calls etc., so I've used the time to get Lyn looking a little more ........ errrrr ....... WGLR like. ;)

The awful knuckle couplings have been removed. I usually like to run locos bunker first at least some of the time (should be 50% really), but fitting a front coupling that works on this loco with the cow catchers and looks presentable is a bit of an issue, so this one will only ever be run forwards. The rear coupling takes the form of a bent wire loop as used on several other of my locos. It's a bit bigger than usual due again to the cow catcher, but sort of disappears when coupled to something. You may also notice the lead for plugging into a battery RC wagon. Those horrible white wheel rims were also painted. Just doing this makes one heck of a difference. The smokebox door handle was re-positioned and super glued back in a more realistic position, before the whole smokebox and chimney were painted matt black (didn't dry as matt as I would have ideally liked). Next came weathering with Tamiya NATO black via the airbrush and finally, real coal glued into the bunker.

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Still needs a crew to be fitted sometime.
 
nicely done mell, makes the loco...:thumbup:
 
Thanks chaps. :thumbup:

I've managed to get Lyn on a running-in turn today. One little tip that I would recommend on these Bachmann Baldwins is to give them a quick lube job before running straight out of the box. Both of mine came with little evidence of any grease in the gearboxes. I ran No.5 for a while before checking, but I've added some grease to the gearbox and lightly oiled the metal valve gear on Lyn before running and this has resulted in the loco running more quietly with each lap of the railway.

Needless to say, Lyn has performed faultlessly.

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Not sure that the original had a lamp growing out of the chimney? :rolf:

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Really looks good Mel....
 
Lovely shots again Mel, We can all take inspiration from your line. Beaver Creek is a bit more, how can I put it, more 'disorganised' than yours and it is hard to get the 'realism'.
 
The more I see of these two locos the more I think of getting one, I always dimissed them as too american but with detail tweaks and painting (Melling? The loco has been Melled?) the better they look. Damn fine job :thumbup:
 
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