david_abramczyk

Makes sense, but I was also meaning things like, are the factory-applied smokebox numbers just printed on, or are they embossed, and would need to be cut away?

I've just started thinking about maybe adding another A4 to my collection; but this time going for one in BR Early Crest condition, and modifying it to be 60013 'Dominion of New Zealand'. How would one go about changing the smokebox numberplates?

So, the other day a couple of Peppercorn Pacifics arrived at my place, and that oddly got me thinking; what counts for 'latest acquisition', especially in relation to online shopping; is it when we flash the cash, or when it arrives home?

Just in the last few minutes, I put my money down, and bought my second A4; a tender-drive model of Golden Eagle in LNER Green.

Hi everyone Years and years ago, I got my hands on one of the "Codename: Strikeforce" sets, with the 0-4-0T, the two Lowmacs and the covered van. I've enjoyed them on and off over the years, but the wheels on the wagons (those nasty plastic wheels friction-locked onto metal axles) have pretty much given up the ghost by this point and need replacing. Does anyone have any suggestions for where I can get new and better wheels for them? A parts number for them would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I mean, the L&YR had multiple variations on it's locomotive livery in the late 19th and early 20th Century, so I'm trying to narrow down which particular variation it is, and when it was in use.

New arrival this afternoon; Bachmann's Aspinall Class 5 2-4-2T, in Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway livery. Not entirely sure of the period though; does anyone know?

Quick update; "Falcon" arrived today, and I'm rather pleased.

Well, I've broken new ground in terms of my collection; I just bought my first ever Gresley A4- it's the 2008 'Railroad' tooling of Falcon in LNER Blue and with its' pre-war number of 4484.

Well, that's kinda what I'm doing; my plan is to make it all one compartment as a 'Directors Saloon', with a table and multiple armchairs inside it. It's also most likely going to be the oldest 'passenger coach' on the line (which depending on whom you ask, is either known as the "Yarlshaven Light Railway", or the "Jarlshaven Light Tramway"), though strictly speaking it's probably more like Departmental stock?

Well, that works for me; like I said, I picked up an LMS liveried one at a swapmeet, and I'm planning to make it akin to a bespoke 'Directors Saloon' for a light railway; one that had some rather eccentric requirements of the builder- one of them being that the doors had to be tall enough that a man wearing a top hat could board and alight from the coach without having to remove his headwear.

So, I picked up one among an assortment at a swapmeet a few weeks ago, and I've had a thought rolling around my head for a while now. By now I've heard a whole mess of things about how they're non-prototypical and all that, but I've never heard hard numbers about them- how tall they actually would be in 'real life', how big the compartments are, etc. Anyone got any figures on those?

Same here with me; though it's a little annoying that I ended up with two copies of Issue 2.

Well, took longer than I hoped, but Chamossaire arrived in the post today.

What's new on my lot; ordered a copy of the Thompson A2/3 #514 "Chammosaire" from Kernow Model Centre; it'll arrive in a week or two, all going well.

I've ordered some 3d printed GCR Barnums; and now I just need to work out what paints to get, so as I can paint them in varnished teak.

So, as I mentioned in another thread, I bought a second hand model of "Humorist" in pre-war LNER green the other day, practically mint in box. I've had a soft spot for "Humorist" for a while, but I also fancy doing something a bit wild. On the operating logic of 'It's my model railway and I'll do as I please with it', I'm considering having a go at fitting the model with post-war 'Peppercorn' style full smoke deflectors, with a handwave of it being an expansion of the experimental programme in improving her draught and smoke deflection, due to the Kylchap exhaust and double chimney being softer than the regular version.

Yesterday, I purchased a second hand model of Gresley A3 #2751 Humorist online; it should arrive at some point around Christmas.

Personally, I kind of wished that the rebuilt W1's were made so that you could easily add nameplates to them; either British Enterprise for the LNER era model, or Pegasus for the BR model; or even vice versa.

You'd be correct there; there was only one actual LNER engine that ever went to Barry; an ex-Departmental Thompson B1, number 1264; there was at least one other LNER-built loco there though; a Stanier 8F that was part of the "Barry 10", and has since been broken up for use in 'new-build' projects.

As I said, it's a rant; but I've looked through catalogues dating back to 1978, and for long stretches, the LNER was only represented by Flying Scotsman, a B12, maybe a tank engine, and three pieces of rolling stock- the aforementioned Gresley composites, (which appeared in 1978 and still appear in the Railroad range, basically unchanged even after 40 years), and the short wheelbased grey brake van; and in some years, they'd only appear in BR livery, not LNER livery.

You'll have to pardon me if this seems a bit ranty, but is it just me, or has the LNER (the Grouping-era company) constantly been under-served by all the major OO-Gauge RTR manufacturers? I mean, going back through years of catalogues, it always seems like the only LNER models Hornby makes are the same small slew of "Flying Scotsman, Mallard, borderline generic tank engine, two Gresley composite coaches and a brake van" in the catalogue year in and year out; meantime the LMS, GWR and even (to a lesser extent) the Southern has crowded out the LNER, in terms of both range and variety. Similar things happen with Bachmann; and Dapol and Helijan doesn't make any at all. I'm beginning to feel like the big model companies almost resent having to make models for the LNER, unless they have the option to inexpensively retool them into BR liveried engines- which is another thing too; it feels as if the model makers line up LNER liveried stock to be the first to be on the chopping block when it comes to clearing way for new models, while BR models of the same equipment aren't touched, and are left to shamble along in the range for years and years.

Pretty sure of it; since the specific model was first made in 1997, and then produced on and off until 2004-ish; definately before NEM's were introduced.

Just fresh today, on my birthday no less, a second-hand split-chassis Bachmann Thompson B1, No. 1040 Roedeer in LNER lined black with shaded lettering/numbering; just need to get it fixed up now.

It reminds me of that famous occasion back in 1985, when City of Truro was visiting the Severn Valley Railway for an overhaul; as a joke in collaboration with the magazine Steam Railway, the yard boys painted one side in BR lined black, and stuck a BR style number plate on the smokebox. Back then, it apparently got a ton of people riled up; but if that stunt was tried again nowadays, I genuinely would not be surprised if some group or another tries to get her painted in the full BR Black livery, and mean it sincerely.