“Jupiter” lazily shunts wagons at the Lavan Road canal wharf in the calm evening light.
Category: VE Day Weekend 2020
Little Boxes
All 3d printed
Off to Midlands sand quarry
From Terry Timms
Lambak railway
A few shots of my mamod Bolton recently converted. It will be a logging loco with some double bogi flatbeds
Have a great weekend
Cain Howley
http://gardenrailwaybuildings.simplesite.com/
Lambak Railway
A few more shots of the extension loop, coal sand, water and diesel station under construction, will have a very polluted feel about it! A few abandoned buildings dotted around to complement abandoned quarry and mine next to viaduct
Lambak Railway
Just a continuation of last virtual meetup, finished the old quarry with viaduct spanning it, all track laid and ballast fixed with SBR. The extension loop is nearly complete with a little more track to lay in station area
Sling and Lavan Tramway staff make plans for VE Day Celebrations
Some of the Tramway staff decided it would be a good idea to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day with a bit of a bang!
In this rural part of North West Wales finding any ex. MoD equipment to help was a problem but, after asking around, one of the local residents, who’s father had been in the Home Guard, produced this cannon that had been lingering in the back of her garage. Ideal, thought the crew of “Venus”, and they decided to take it up the line to find somewhere quiet to try it out!!!
Having borrowed one of the quarry gunpowder vans for the necessary explosives, the crew of “Venus” carry out a load check before coupling up.
Passing the local brewery, and in the spirit of the Home Guard, they feel the need for some “dutch courage” and stop the train to pop in.
Someway up the line they stop again at a convenient crossing point (it is a rural Tramway remember!) and leave the train to either (a) check if it’s quiet enough for a test bang; (b) find somewhere to get rid of the beer; or, (c) sleep off the beer in the sun!!!
“Venus” is a much modified Mamod with lots of Mike Chaney improvements and a body which is my interpretation of Spooner’s design for a shunting engine for the Penrhyn Railway.
Mike Barton
North West Wales 16mm Group Coordinator
nwwales16mmgroup
Website: http://nwwales.16mm.org.uk
First job: RC Boulton
No 5 recently arrived on the Moel Rhos.
I’ve been eyeing up a Boulton for a while – the Moel Rhos needed a heavy battery loco for line clearing. With just one operational battery loco during lockdown (No 1 Gannet) reduced to 2 WD after the belt snapped – the urgency for the new loco increased. What if No 1 had a failure? The consequences would be catastrophic (i.e. locked down and having to wait to get up steam every time I want to play trains).
I’m delighted with the Boulton which is fully capable of hauling a dead Millie plus train. But it’s not as geared down as I expected and reacts to the sharp curves and even the minimal inclines on my line. If it stalls you can’t just wait for it to brew up like a steamer. Inevitably this occurs in the tunnels or the cutting. I feel it needs to be driven on my line, so RC needed. Fortunately I’d planned to do that anyway and had already ordered a Deltang Rx65c.
Next job is to fit it. Providing I can find my soldering iron…
Ready for the weekend…
Stock sheltering in the Moel Rhos northern tunnel.