A 13 year old railway

[AustrianNG]

Crikey mate that's bright. Bargain though.

It is bright - the colour has really grown on me. I didn't used to like blue locos.

 

[Madman]

Great photo, as usual. I still don't like blue locos.....

 

[AustrianNG]

Took a while to clear all the leaves this afternoon before I could run a few trains, the track needed a scrub with the cleaning block too, there was a lot of crud from the rain as well as the leaves. However the effort was worth it, even Piko "Dirty Wheels" Kamel was in service. All the points got a liberal squirt of WD40 after the session - something I do every 6 months

 

[AustrianNG]

A couple more pictures taken on Sunday.
The V51 has been lightly weathered and has StLmB numbering for the time it served in Austria on the Landesbahn during the seventies.

 

[AustrianNG]

Been round all the points to clean them again after all the leaves have finally dropped. Another dose of WD40 on all moving and contact parts.

 

[AustrianNG]

Just been running in the rain - well I had to as I was off work.

 

[Nemo]

Great pictures Paul. I too was off today but sadly it was way too wet to run anything here, hoping for a drier day tomorrow.

 

[AustrianNG]

In spite of the gales today and the last drop of dead leaves all over the railway, I ran trains for an hour.

Train running therapy is essential.

 

[AustrianNG]

I quite like this one......




And this one.....

 

[simon@mgr]

So do I

 

[Madman]

I like them all. It's just that some are better than others.....

 

[trammayo]

The saying "the camera never lies" might be true, but I think it's the man using the camera that brings truth to the forefront. The 'truth' is the realism of your selected scenes - and you never fail to bring it out - your pics are always a joy to view.

 

[Madman]

Amen to that.....

 

[ge_rik]

Your photos are a delight, as ever, Paul. Really like the couple of the little KOF(?) 0-4-0 diesel coming through the trees.

Rik

 

[AustrianNG]

Thank you gents.
I love model railways in the garden and strive to create "Impressionist" pictures - in other words feasibly realistic but not pedantically so (for reasons of scale, gauge, couplings and other such minutiae).

A couple more............

 

[Madman]

I can picture driving down a country road and coming upon the grade crossing, American style. Great pictures.

 

[AustrianNG]

Archive pictures (Real oil outside the shed).

 

[Madman]

A er "real oil". Better watch out that someone from the EPA doesn't visit you.....

 

[AustrianNG]

It's okay Dan - I've got a tipping license at the waste disposal site

Anyway, the wind and rain stopped so a proper running session was had this afternoon - wind was calm enough for smoke too.

 

[AustrianNG]

I took more than 3 photos.
The dirty wheeled Piko Kamel had to be piloted around the railway by the V51 (on accounts that it's pick up off 4 skates took a few laps to clear the railhead crud off) The V51 sailed around regardless of the dirty railhead of course.