WEST ORTON

[Steve M]

Two new arrivals at West Orton greeted by some mist on the fells.

2022-01-19_06-29-01 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

Both have been fitted with sound, coal and crew. Tested but still to be run in properly.

[Walkingthedog]

Handsome locos and so different to each other.

[bulleidboy]

Great picture - the mist adds realism.

[Steve M]

After a bit of running in it was time for some experimental photography with the smoke machine.

2022-01-20_12-35-43 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

[Mr Bones]

Brilliant

[Hound Dog]

Great photo Steve, but to get maximum points you need to have smoke coming out a diesel exhaust - then you will be a legend

[Chops]

Ditto to Mr. Bones.

[IanS]

Great photo Steve, but to get maximum points you need to have smoke coming out a diesel exhaust - then you will be a legend

But it needs to be black!

[Mountain Goat]

What I did not know until I worked on the railways was that locomotives running "Light" (As in running without pulling anything) were restricted to a maximum speed of 40mph (I believe it was 40mph. Going by memory).

Now when it comes to our models and how they react, and where the weight is inside our models and how the couplings react and how we only effectively have locomotive breaking, and then go to how the real railway locos with their trains they pull react and how having breaks on the coaches or wagons they pull react, I can begin to understand why a solo locomotive on its own has a more restricted upper speed limit compared to when it is pulling a load.

It is interesting.

I only add this after seeing pictures of your locos running light.

I was also thinking they need head ad tail lamps.... And I have been toying with an idea of using magnets and steel so that the head and tail lights can easily be placed on a loco or an item of rolling stock and removed etc. May not be easy in the smaller scales. Is just a thought I have been thinking about.

Love the photographs.

[Steve M]

There hasn’t been much activity on West Orton, mainly due to the shed being a bit chilly, but it’s time for that to change.
It’s almost a year since I started this project and I’ve never really known what I was going to do with the space opposite the station. A goods shed was always a good bet but I was struggling to understand how I could make it fit with my track plan.
Maybe a spell away from the shed helped but yesterday I realised that a small extension to the board would give me the space to install a head shunt to allow shunting back to a shed.

20220214_124545 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

20220214_124611 by Steve Mumford, on Flickr

In other news, I have almost filled my Flickr account so I will have to delete a few older photos from some threads to make space.