Atomic Systems

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I have finally plucked up the courage to try a cab view. It will suit the whole family, and maybe some other Bagnalls with a little editing of the front and side views

An early texture test! What is the finished article going to be like? It seems stupidly churlish to suggest that this could be improved in any way, but I think that the cylinder lagging is too round - all the pictures I have seen show something either hexagonal or octagonal.

The family has grown by two - Annie, done for Groudle and very, very similar to the existing baby and this one, incorporating some textures obtained from a recent holiday, and which will be added to some of the others
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Kevin,

I've just got back from my holidays which is why I didn't say that you have produced a marvellous looking engine before, but, That looks marvellous

Sian's extra width is probably down to her spell as Sydney - whose very un-Twining dome cover she at last appears to have lost. Nice to see the proper ones on the models too Ben. (You weren't thinking of doing Sydney as well were you?)

Lady Madcap was a quite different engine, longer wheelbase, (originally) non-interchangeable boiler, and a step in the running plate. Port engines were mechanically the same as Alices, but because they didn't have to pass over the abrupt changes of gradient at the bottom of the rope worked inclines,...

One point that has puzzled me on these two ever since I started researching my aborted model is the splashers. Katie seems to have them (and when I was there in 1973 they were painted red like the cylinders) and Sian doesn't. Is this really true, or is it just me? The locos have changed in all sorts...

That's looking good - I started Katie myself in the hope that a 2x scale version would look right on the Welshpool & Llanfair. It didn't so I abandoned it - but I have got an article by Twining in which he describes his valve gear (which is fitted to these engines) which you are welcome to a scan of.

Delightful, keep the Heywood stuff coming - even if it is the modeern replica one (I don't think that any of the original Heywoods had other capped chimneys)

Obviously a bit slow in the uptake, I didn't realise the loco was available for download. I have just taken it for a spin on the AJLR - looking good, though I will try and tame the smoke a bit - even the 2-8-2s don't produce that much!.

Thanks

According to Colin Judge's book, Victoria was sold to an unknown buyer in 1937, Camber was scrapped in Rye in 1947, and the petrol loco was scrapped in 1946. Bits of the track were cemented in place when the Admiralty took oover during the 1939-45 war, and are still there - or at least were last tim...

The real 15in narrow gauge! As a former resident of Duffield, good to see a Heywood loco. As regards the flexiible wheelbase, I did one on the Matheran Klien-Lindner loco, and I bet nobody who has downloaded it realises that it's there. It was done by making the loco (really an 0-6-0) with 10 wheels...

Bronllwyd has been through a lot - the reason for the lack of dome is that the boiler isn't her's at all. I seem to recall that it came off Stanhope - the Kerr Stuart Tatoo, hers in turn having been nicked to go on Pamela (quarry Hunslet)

Beautiful, looking like a well looked after working engine. Bronllwyd has been through an awful lot since she came out of Hudswell Clarke, but she's a class G nonetheless. The Leighton Buzzard line started off with 2 of these, but they deposited too many smuts on the sand in transit that they were q...

A major milestone in the railway's history has just been reached with the arrival of the first passengers at Kariene. A special train conveyed local elders and other dignitaries from Meru Town to the new station. [album 80724 karop3.jpg thumblink] [album 80724 karop1.jpg thumblink] [album 80724 karo...