SIDE SHOT SATURDAY

[bdw9535]

Penn Central GE 44 Tonner 9999


Bruce

   

[CNR5103]

CNR Alco S-2 # 8113 switching the yard at St-Henri

   

[Lester Perry]

I know I am a stranger here now but I still visit once in a while. I am curious about this thread. Is it the same as the weekly photo fun of old with a new name ?

[doctorwayne]

Hey, Les, good to hear from you!

The Weekly Photo Fun feature is still on-going, while Side Shot Saturday is for dead-on views of locomotives, rolling stock, and probably any other subject you want to show us:  trucks, automobiles, structures, too, I'd guess.  It's pretty-much straight-on views, with not too much else in the photo....sorta "show us whatcha got".

Wayne

[cn nutbar]

Hey, Les, good to hear from you!


thanks for the explanation Doc---now I know what to post

[Lester Perry]

Well the only thing I see different is, not enough STEAM

[doctorwayne]

Here ya go, Les...

















Wayne

[cn nutbar]

Beautiful pictures Doc---hope you saved lots more for Saturday.

Les---some more STEAM---hope you enjoy 

   

[Lester Perry]

I LOVE IT   NEED MORE !! I might add more when it thaws out here. need some new pics.

[cn nutbar]

Here's a couple more Les to hold you over until Saturday---I'm looking forward to seeing some of your C&O steam again

       

[BR60103]

Wayne:
The 503 is almost enough to make me s TH&B modeller.

[Lester Perry]

Nothing new but I can try to get some good pics. First it needs to get a little warmer outside. My RR is in a shed in my back yard. It is well insulated and has a small heater but it is 15 f right now and I usually don't go out there when it is this cold.

[doctorwayne]

David, the 503 was one of two similar kits which the local hobby shop got as part of an estate lot.  I believe they sold the other one, while I built this one for the fellow at whose home the so-called "Barn Layout" was located.  It was in a former chicken barn, and was a fairly exclusive club, which included the hobby shop owner and a couple others, plus Martin, the owner.  I saw it a couple of times on the H.O.M.E.S. layout tour, as did Ed. 
Sadly, Martin passed away less than a year later, and the hobby shop closed last September.

I had thought the kit to be from Airfix, but someone on the MR Forum mentioned Kitmaster, although noted it was 1/76th scale.  Non-powered, it fit on HO scale track, and could be manually rolled back-and-forth.  I would have left it unweathered, but the shop owner wanted fairly heavy weathering.

Wayne

[BR60103]

Wayne:
The kit is Kitmaster; Airfix never reissued it. I built one in the early 60s which my sister disposed of when she cleaned out dad's house.
The standards are British OO, which is 4mm = 1 ft but runs on HO track.*
The prototype was the improved LMS class with the rotating coal bunker. There was a problem that the driver bearings were from an 0-6-0 class and inadequate.
Other story: the locos were to replace a pair of 0-6-0 s on long coal trains. The practice was that the loco pair would push the preceding train over the hump at Toton (?) yard and then follow it through. They did this with the Garratt, not thinking anything of it, until a pair of drivers came up through the cab floor.

(You mentioned that you were doing this when I saw you on a layout tour.)

* this is probably covered in a PhD thesis.

[nachoman]

YIKES WAYNE!! All of those are awesome!