Valley Railway

refman · Post by **refman** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:21 pm

<IMG SRC="http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php ... .JPG">[img]
Thinking of having ago at a 2x narrow gauge route so here is my first bit of stock to see if it works[/img]

festkid2004 · Post by **festkid2004** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:54 am

Looks good !

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:44 pm

Wow! Thats stunning, what have you got planned in the works as it were? All freelance or some prototypical stock?

Chris

refman · Post by **refman** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:10 pm

Hi Chris
Not sure about the route yet. I quite fancy a 3ft gauge one
with Isle of man and Irish stock.
Am going to try and model " SUTHERLAND " ex manx northern,
but in order to fit std, sim track I will need to scale up by 1.57 to 1
and I`m not sure what the narrow gauge boys will like that.
Will keep you posted
Reg

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:23 pm

Sutherland is IMR No.1, has nothing to do with the MNR...also its best having a word with the SPTS team about the IOM

David

MuzTrem · Post by **MuzTrem** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:34 pm

but in order to fit std, sim track I will need to scale up by 1.57 to 1
and I`m not sure what the narrow gauge boys will like that.

Just download x-tracks, it gives you a full set of 3-foot gauge track.
Nice model

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:52 pm

Sutherland isnt a Manx Northern Engine. Your thinking I think of MNR No.3 Thornhill built in about 1880, which became IoMR No.14 in the 1905 takeover by the IoMR of the MNR.

Very similar to No.7 Tynwald, the two engines being built 6 months apart to almost the same design. Thornhill never carried MNR numbers on the chimmney, ie a No.3, however did have the standard IoMR fittings added when it became an IoMR engine.

Read David Lloyd Jones's book "The Manx Peacocks" it has all the details about the engines, including I think speculation as to whether No.14 ever ran on the IoMR before the 1905 takeover on testing runs and such like...

Chris

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:54 pm

Alternativley you could be thinking of MNR No.1 Ramsey, built in 1879 by Sharp Stewarts. Ran on the MNR for all of its life, being scrapped in 1912. On the IoMR takeover she was kept with sister engine Northern, to shunt the Ramsey Dockyards.

Looked like a big version of the Southwold Sharpies.

Chris

Frsimplex1993 · Post by **Frsimplex1993** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:16 pm

pitleyfalley wrote: Read David Lloyd Jones's book "The Manx Peacocks"

Chris

Fantastic Book!

Or Caledonia.

pitleyfalley · Post by **pitleyfalley** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:07 pm

Caledonia and the Sharp Stewarts were very different engines. Cale' is a Dubs product, 0-6-0 and I think a lot larger than the Sharp Stewart tanks, which were 2-4-0's.

Yes David's book is fantastic. An update would be wonderfull, so much having happened in the last 7 years. Its amazing to think that at some points in the 90's the IoM was down to 2 working steam engines, and now has 7!!!!

Chris

refman · Post by **refman** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:36 pm

<IMG SRC="http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php ... .JPG">[img]
Progress report " Sunderland" as is at the moment....a few more details and she will be ready to go.
Looks OK on TR route even with 1.57:1 scale[/img]

JonPotter · Post by **JonPotter** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:43 pm

Just one word - AWESOME!

chrisj94 · Post by **chrisj94** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:49 pm

Wow,looks great mate.
By the way,youve got a PM from me!

Frsimplex1993 · Post by **Frsimplex1993** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:25 pm

Fantastic! I love the loco. I'll be pleased to test the loco.

refman · Post by **refman** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:08 pm

<IMG SRC="http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php ... .JPG">[img]
<IMG SRC="http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/119037/ng4.JPG">[/img]
Think I`ll leave it like this and have a play for a bit.