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Yep They are still driving...alive and cicking...under the "flag" of some museumrailways over here...one of them is the "MBS"
here a picture taken from their site:
Is museum railways the same as preserved railways or is it part of the national system? The Yellow and grey livery is what I am more familiar with. Didn't someone like ROCO do one in HO?
The one on the picture is the last one overhere...the picture is showing the engine during the late nineteeneighties as it was already part of the MBS , I think ,and therefore of course in yellow - grey.livery....some years later he was painted back in his original livery.
Is museum railways the same as preserved railways or is it part of the national system
pfffiew, I realy don't know... but I know defenitly that it is NOT part of the national system!
I think we/ you could/may call it a "Museum railway"...I think we don't have "preserved railways overhere!=(
By preserved railway I mean one run by volunteers (usually) using old restored steam and deisel locomotives and stock. They normally only operate for the tourist industry and usually use old, closed branch lines to run their trains on.
Perhaps Britain's most well know is the Severn Valley Railway of which you can find out more from here
By preserved railway I mean one run by volunteers (usually) using old restored steam and deisel locomotives and stock. They normally only operate for the tourist industry and usually use old, closed branch lines to run their trains on.
It is only recently that we have got high quality models with central motors, all wheel drive, all wheel pick up that sort of thing. However there are still gaps which meand we have to resort to pretty drastic surgery like this…
I am currently running a tutorial on how this is done on RMweb - a british forum. You dont need to be a member to view posts so perhaps you might like to take a look?
What follows is probably the most pointless bit of modelling you will ever see!! Why?
1 - I dont know what the real thing looks like so its a pure guess - its probably nothing like this.
2 - It doesnt even face the public and the whole building will be behind a retaining wall!
3 - the windows are not that open
4 - there is a palisade fence in the way so the operators wont be able to see it either!!
But - its a bit of an experiment to see if a hint of interior detail is all you need. If it doesnt work it wont matter. The "light" room will be lit - hence the lighter colours and slightly lower walls allowing for a second ceiling.
Picked up the microstrip I needed on Sunday at the Nottingham show so that meant I could get on with the window frames. Looking more like a building now. Little chap for scale.
Got the cladding on now, just need to sort out the corners then its on to roof details (air con unit in pic is just plonked on ATM as is the upper section)
Had a first lick of paint with ground white pepper blown across it while still wet to give a concrete texture. Plain white to follow. Also painted the window frames black
For the first time I am able to get an overall idea of how the whole signal box complex will look. Started to replace the cladding on the main building too, much happier with the evergreen sections than the resin castings I did.
