Llwyndrissi Halt.

[Phred]

I don't know if this link would supply any ideas:
https://www.miniaturerailwayworkshop.co ... ailway-use

[Mountain]

Is actually interesting. Glad the forces on my models are not that great!

[Mountain]

A new (Secondhand) model for future conversion potential. I think I will make a tender and leave this lovely little loco as it is, to make a miniature model loco in 7mm scale which avoids damaging the vintage model loco.(Model is H0). Larger loco of a Smokey Joe size (With a larger 7mm scale cab and chimney) is added as a reference to its size.Look how short it is! I also have its origional motor as previous owner added a modern slower running motor.

[Mountain]

The larger loco in the last photograph is deceptive. I called it a "Smokey Joe" but if one picks it up and handles it one will find it is unusually different. The chassis is the same and looks the same. (Have not opened it up to check the motor). But the body which looks like a Hornby Smokey Joe/Smallbrook creation is anything but. The body (Saddle tank, cab etc) is all cast out of metal. I have never come across such a thing and it weighs the same as my modified Smallbrook Studio Clio kit with its heavy Triang chassis and was made when Smallbrook used to add lead shot type weight into the saddle tank on the loco. It weighs about the same which is HEAVY! I am impressed!

I have bought quite a few more items from a fellow narrow gauge modeller and they are interesting. One is an unfinished project of a Gnomy tramcar which has been cleverly adapted to take the major part of a Smokey Joe 0-4-0ST, to convert it into a steam tram. Other Gnomy tramcars (Some modified. Some not) are heading my way. I think that will end up as interesting coaches as the Great Mountain Goat Railroad Company happens to love buying up items of interest to convert into useable items of rolling stock. Thoughts on a suitable railworks extension along with re-laying some track in the layout to accomodate this are floating round the railway board rooms as discussions are taking place on the railways future expansion. During careful modification of track and trackbed, some scenic paint will be applied, but as the railway is currently not operating, opportunities for such plans and finding interesting stock for future use are being seized upon.

[Phred]

Mountain wrote:
discussions are taking place on the railways future expansion.

Taking into account the possible re-nationalisation of the railways and suitable compensation for the board of course!

[Mountain]

Mountain wrote:
discussions are taking place on the railways future expansion.

Taking into account the possible re-nationalisation of the railways and suitable compensation for the board of course!

Haha!

[Mountain]

I have recently come across a hand tool which is something along the lines of something I was considering making before I discovered (Via members of another site) this ready made tool.
I did not have access to Ebay or Amazon where these tools are sold so a kind lady I know ordered one for me and I am really greatful. They don't cost a lot (£12 to £15 as I write) and what these tools do is to take a piece of card or a piece of thin tin foil one uses for cooking, and puts corrigations into it so one can make ones own model versions of corrigated iron sheets.

The tool is easy to use. One simply clamls card or tin foil inbetween the serrated rollers, hold the tool closed with one hand and turn the handle using the other hand. The only two limitations to the tool are the width of the rollers which mean one can only make sheets of just below this width, and the serrations are more suitable for 7mm scale (0 gauge, 0-16.5 etc).

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[Phred]

Oo-ah! That does look handy!
Now to convince the wife that I really need one.

[captrees]

It looks suspiciously like something one might roll a cigarette with before that habit was disallowed.

[Mountain]

Here is a link to the company who sells them. They also sell other interesting things as well.

https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/134-corrugator-tool

I also kn ow they are on Amazon and Ebay but I am not on those sites, so I had a friend get me one which I am most greatful for.