Old and New

I am using this as a place holder for material that is out of date. The locations depicted here have changed. I hope to create a gallery of the old and the new as time permits.

Terrier through the Hebes (70 KB JPEG image)

A half complete, but runnable, Vulcan Terrier double-headed with a visiting LNWR Coal Tank in etched brass livery, but otherwise complete. The leading coach, a Lima Mk 1 in WR livery, is just visible.

A close-up of the Terrier - courtesy Jim Bladen and his Olympus G-400 (150 KB JPEG image).

The indoor track visible in the close-up photos is constructed from C&L plastic sleepers and chairs, rail and underlay glued to a conventional 2"x1" frame supporting a 3/4" chipboard base.

Two Peco GWR vans and a mineral wagon - courtesy Jim Bladen and his Olympus G-400 (156 KB JPEG image)

American scene (55 KB JPEG image). Viewed at the same spot but from a different angle to the Terrier.

A close-up of the GP9 - courtesy Jim Bladen and his Olympus G-400 (129 KB JPEG image). This is a Red Caboose GP-9 in Southern Pacific "Black Widow" livery. Its train consists of 3 Intermountain box cars. These were impulse purchases on business trips to the US.

25 August 2010

I took the plunge and removed the conifers at the bottom of my garden. I thought I had left plenty of room for the trunks but they outgrew the hole in the baseboard and started to wrap themselves around it!