Making a New Start

Nice one again - love your innovative projects:thumbup:
 
As always, Jiles, it is a great addition to your lovely line. It was really good to see your creations in the flesh at Ian's and to see them at work.
 
Ian, Mick and Mike - many thanks for the kind words. Still think I have it easy, working indoors. Mike, I don't know how you've found the time and energy to produce what you've achieved. If I ever find I'm going to be down your way with some spare time, I should certainly like to see the line for real; yours too, Mel.

Too many chores to get on with at present so there's been no more modelling for a few days - and there I was thinking being retired would mean more spare time.
 
A little more progress on the new drover caboose - the roof has been trimmed to fit, and a suggestion of seating and a stove has been added to the coach section.

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Just done some more work on the caboose, but the paint's still wet, so I won't take another set of pictures until the work's finished - probably on Wednesday. Meanwhile, I've re-shot some older pictures that didn't work the first time, for one reason or another; here's a "quiet moment" at Cattewater.

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Great looking layout Giles do like your kit bashed caboose :thumbup:
 
Thanks for the kind comments, guys. At last I've leaned to put the camera in the middle of the layout instead of just taking the normal operators' viewing angle; seems to be working. Here's another.
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Do you mean post 427? I'd never noticed the difference until I saw the picture - it doesn't seem to register in real life, for some reason. The two vehicles have different origins: the red caboose is an LGB Toy Train model (repainted), while the green drover caboose was made from Bachmann Big Hauler combine parts, though the cupola which gives it the extra height is home-made. I built the main part of the body while living away from home, so didn't have any other rolling stock to compare it to, just assuming it would be the same scale as the rest of my stock. I'll go upstairs and compare them side by side now!

The home-made vehicle is built on a ply under-frames, so the "sit" may be slightly lower than when it was on its original frame. Looking closely, you can see the sides overlap the plywood, so this would make a difference in height of about 8-10mm to the top of the body side compared with the LGB caboose which sits on top of the under-frame.

Edit: Yes, I was right - the bodies are the same dimensions, just one sits lower than the other.
 
Visited Kent Garden Rail (on the back of a trip to ExpoNG) and bought bogie frames for both cabooses. With luck I'll get time to fit them to the brown one tomorrow than add its truss rods.

Until they're ready to photograph, here's a picture of Cattewater engine house.

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I was, Don. Then I thought I might as well finish it off properly as I found I had some wheels in stock. Thanks to Ian of Coggesrail there are more coming to finish off the closed caboose, too.
 
Just found some pictures of the last running day, back in September - time for another, I think. First off is the Mail crossing the trestle
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We don't get to see much of the diesel switcher at work, so here it is on a freight at Cattewater.
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Meanwhile, now I've got the needed wheels (thanks, Ian) I must get round to fitting the bogies to the enclosed caboose.
 
Hi Shawn,

They are there - have a look at the extreme right of the picture by the brown boxcar and you'll see the crossbucks. A bit close to the tracks, I know, but there was no room to place them any further back.
 
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