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  1. Yorkshire Dave

    7mm Richards P48 US Thread

    This also explains why you require low level air intakes in tunnels - especially long tunnels where there is a greater chance of fuel being unburnt. A look at the Cotton Belt Tunnel Motor at the end of the first consist would explain why. Although tunnel #5 is 358m long exhaust fumes can have...
  2. Yorkshire Dave

    Love Lane, B.R. (E) c.1956-59

    The low retaining wall looks a lot better and more in keeping with the countryside around the area of Essex being depicted. At this country end of the section I think a lattice public footpath footbridge with young trees and bushes behind on the low cutting would provide a more believeable and...
  3. Yorkshire Dave

    USATC S100

    All depends how far you want to backdate it. As built...... :) .....or after the first set of SR modifications (cab side windows, backed/plated coal rails, and revised steps).... :) .....or the second set of SR modifications (revised cab windows, enlarged bunker, additional lower gutter...
  4. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    What got me looking a bit deeper was the double doors and the stone floor and walls in the background of the photo of the model of Senate House and how similar they are to those in 55 Broadway.
  5. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    Of all the years I worked in the Tottenham Court Road/Gower Street area I never looked up! :rolleyes:. Senate House is a nice contemporary art-deco building to 55 Broadway. And sure enough after a quick check the architect was Charles Holden.
  6. Yorkshire Dave

    USATC S100

    The hinged cover plate over the buffer beam and buffers to ease access to the smokebox were fitted from 1951, after a serious accident.
  7. Yorkshire Dave

    USATC S100

    The smokeboox door does look a bit anaemic. I may have to do something about mine as rivets and bolts on US locos are rather prominent. This is one one my photos I took to show the lubricators lines but also captures part of the smokebox door.
  8. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    On the Q1s: C1-16 (33001- 33016), C37-40 (33037-33040) were built at Brighton. C17-36 (33017-33036) were built at Ashford.
  9. Yorkshire Dave

    1930’s LNER Wagon unearthed

    It is, as at building site at the other end of the tunnel they have uncovered medieval moorings. Archaeologists uncover medieval moorings on Scheldt quays in Antwerp
  10. Yorkshire Dave

    1930’s LNER Wagon unearthed

    Apparently the red livery was in use for a couple of years after the containers were introduced in the early 1930s, before being painted blue. It was found at the Nordkasteel building site where there are/were docks. Ideally we would need to see wide angle views of this and the area to show...
  11. Yorkshire Dave

    1930’s LNER Wagon unearthed

    Interesting it is maroon rather than blue as depicted in model form.
  12. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    Quaker Court. It's next to Braithwaite House (the block of flats) seen in the previous sequence. The view today It is a 1960s LCC development built on a WWII bomb site. The bottom photo is Banner Street and a model was produced in 1962. Model, Banner Street, 1962 The history goes on to...
  13. Yorkshire Dave

    Mickoo's American Modelling Empire

    It will be a combination of the granite source, water source and PVA. Feldspar is one of the minerals in granite and this can be a buff, grey, pink or green in colour and dissolve in water which generally has a ph value of between 6.5 and 8.5 (7 being neutral) - ergo the more acidic or alkali...
  14. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    Never mind, Holmes...:rolleyes:
  15. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    Note the overhead catenary for operating the electric locos in the yards. Classes 70 (electric ex- CC1, CC2 & CC3) and 71 had pantographs for such use.
  16. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    Coming back to Chequer Street these are the views today. H Bates has been razed and replaced with this. In the second photo with the tower blocks the view has hardly changed apart from the H Bates building. In this area there the Islington Peabody Estate. And in the 'arty farty' shot you...
  17. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    The last three are in Bunhill Row as @mickoo has noted. Need to swing round 180 degrees. H Bates is on the corner of Bunhill Row and Chequer Street. It has been razed and replaced by the building on the left. Chequer Street is the turning on the left before the flats. The block of flats...
  18. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    The loco is an ex-LBSCR E4 (E4X had a larger boiler). 32512 retains it's original LBSC smokebox door while 32515 behind has an Ashford smokebox door.
  19. Yorkshire Dave

    4mm KMRC GW Steam Railmotor

    The window sizes look like a throwback to the 1950's Triang coaches.
  20. Yorkshire Dave

    Prototype Tim Mills' Photos

    Yes, the N-Wagen Steuerwagen have sand boxes (sandkasten) on the leading drehgestell (bogie) as shown in the photos posted by @mickoo . Hasenkasten Steuerwagen (bottom photo) have four sand boxes on the leading bogie (just above each axlebox). Karlsruher Kopf (top photo) also have four sand...
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