This is the thing isn’t it? I could end up spending more time making not very good videos than I actually do making real things for the railway, at which point I might as well replace myself with an AI version of me that doesn’t snap tiny telegraph poles by not paying attention to where my very real sleeves are…
Anyway, thanks for the comments everyone. I’m unveiling my very dirty (in a clean sense) parcels train that I’ve been putting together recently. This being something to run with my Western, Warship, Hymek and green 47 towards the afternoons of the steam session we run on Moors View on Saturdays at shows (Sundays are purely 1980s diesels, mmm…).
I started
this thread for a bit of research and bought myself an LMS 50ft full brake, a couple of green ex Southern Region vans, an ex GWR Fruit D, weathered the very life out of all of them (but wiped the dirt off the numbers as mentioned in that thread), fitted close couplings, and this where I’ve got to now:
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Dirty.
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Ah, pretty dirty. Should they be more dirty though? I don’t know, maybe…
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We had a final Moors View team meet on Wednesday and I took a couple of fun photos (I’ve posted these on Rmweb as well so apologies if you’ve already seen them).
1968 and Hymek leaves with the steam heating turned right up:
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And a couple of steam shots:
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Quite pleased with that last one.
Erm. I think that’s it for now.