Ox Mountain Railway

G-force1 said:
Mick, those coaches wot I love :inlove::inlove:, who's, what are they? I've been looking at Accucraft USA stuff and I'm now more than a bit confuddled. There's 'millions' that look the same, as in identical; except of the livery.
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Yes,as Mike said, Bachmann. Denver & Rio Grande. I thought your Garratt was of larger gauge!

Not much in stock at B'mann Europe although the coaches are on order.
I just keep my eye on eBay!
 
trammayo said:
Yes,as Mike said, Bachmann. Denver & Rio Grande. I thought your Garratt was of larger gauge!

Not much in stock at B'mann Europe although the coaches are on order.
I just keep my eye on eBay!
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Yes Mick 1:19, so 1:20.3 shouldn't notice too much. Those Accys come a bit keen on ebay! :sick:
 
Well, too cream crackered yesterday and the weather today (morning) was condusive to doing anything on the line - let alone run a train.

However by mid-day, the mountain started to appear out of the grey mist. As the range is only about 900 metres away, coming into focus might mean a spell of good weather (having been spoilt this last few days!).

So my latest project has begun...

Weeds, more weeds, and Lilliums. Before I built the extension, there was quite a nice display of these flowers..
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I thought I had dug a load of them out (especially under the track base but, as I have been wrong many times before, I hadn't.
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So I got the spade out ...
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Out came a nice amount of corms...
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If all are split up there'll be enought for about fifty plants at least. I've already planted out the singles and esconced the clumbs temporarily in somewhere to await attention. A barrow load of Dand Lions and other unwanted vegetation ensued and was dumped on the dung heap. I burnt the Ivy - didn't want that running any further than it has.

The results of my efforts before a quick shower (and a long cuppa) intervened...
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More to follow as and when I get the time (and the weather).
 
trammayo said:
Yes,as Mike said, Bachmann. Denver & Rio Grande. I thought your Garratt was of larger gauge!

Not much in stock at B'mann Europe although the coaches are on order.
I just keep my eye on eBay!
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G-force1 said:
Yes Mick 1:19, so 1:20.3 shouldn't notice too much. Those Accys come a bit keen on ebay! :sick:
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I like the cut of their jib - but couldn't afford a whole one!

To be honest they are the best and most accurate (reflected in the company's name I suppose). As Mike suggests, they probably would not negotiate my curves - or the Drumlins of Mayo where we live!

Bachmann are shorter but still look the part (same as LGB), then you get to Piko and you need to make one out of two!
 
trammayo said:
I like the cut of their jib - but couldn't afford a whole one!

To be honest they are the best and most accurate (reflected in the company's name I suppose). As Mike suggests, they probably would not negotiate my curves - or the Drumlins of Mayo where we live!

Bachmann are shorter but still look the part (same as LGB), then you get to Piko and you need to make one out of two!
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On `the other hand, if you have the wherewithall, then look on the Accy US website for a four-pack :nod::nod:
 
The shower of rain didn't last as long as my teabreak so I thought I'd run something.

I'm pretty sure that I had not run the PCC car on the extension so I had it on the tracks - no problems apart from the appearance of rain again..
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I should really run it the other way round (and direction!)...
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I even got it in the shed out of the drizzle ...
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It started to get a little bit wetter so running was abandoned. After wiping the tram and putting it back in its box, the sun made another appearance. :banghead:
 
Rhinochugger said:
On `the other hand, if you have the wherewithall, then look on the Accy US website for a four-pack :nod::nod:
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At the thick end of a Grand! :eek::eek:


Those Jackson Sharps are very similar to what RR and SAR used to use as stock back in the 1960s (wish I still had the pics), so should look the part behind an NGG 16., even though they never piulled them. Wood coloured would be best but brown would do. I still can't find a RR class 20 in G scale, without a mortgage and forty two arms and legs.
 
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OK, wherewithout, try the Canadian Garden Centre website - :think::think::think::think::think::think: - Art Knapp I seem to remember.
 
Rhinochugger said:
On `the other hand, if you have the wherewithall, then look on the Accy US website for a four-pack :nod::nod:
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Ha - tempting - get thee behind me Satan! No, I couldn't justify that, I'd have to buy the wife some new knitting needles or a book to put my guilt feeling to rest;)
 
trammayo said:
Ha - tempting - get thee behind me Satan! No, I couldn't justify that, I'd have to buy the wife some new knitting needles or a book to put my guilt feeling to rest;)
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I think I paid the equivalent of £160 Great British Pounds in September 2015 - but then I was in Canada at the time, and I did pay a £30 taxi fare to find the garden centre in the first place which was miles - I mean many miles - outside Vancouver on a p*****g wet Saturday. We came back on the bus (we only took the taxi there 'cos we couldn't find the right bus stop at the end of the metro line).

So there we were, in the pouring rain, on a dual carriageway in rural nowhere, with a dirty great read box, waiting for a bus ............................

..and sure enough, it turned up, just as the guy's app at the garden centre said it would :nod::nod::nod:
 
I'm not getting any hits on that,Art Knapp, or CGC?
 
Got a little more done this morning ....

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Used some old torch-on felt that I stripped off a roof - at least the weeds will have their work cut out getting through it!
 
And got a little more done after lunch...
I was going to cut the tiles up into scale bricks but then I thought of a new use for them....
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Recycling. I was going to recycle some chicken mesh to do the job - then I thought of the cats. Their weight would have an undesirable impact on what I'm trying to do!

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Getting there.
 
... and some more before tea!

The stone will be rendered over eventually!
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So that's that for now. Need to get ready for my first outing of the year (two weeks this Sunday coming).
 
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