15 attended our February meting (Pic001).
Trevor Street brought along his latest loco. This was a small vertical boiler 0-4-0 built on a Tsugawa Koppel-A chassis. It had a run on Peter Hardy’s test track pushing a small snowplough (one of Alec Matthews’ prints) and pulling a small van (a Woolwich Arsenal 3d printed kit from Narrow Planet) (Pic002).
Mike Bartleet brought along some On30 stock (Pic003). The loco was a Rivarrossi HO dock shunter converted to On30 with a new cab from Smallbrook Studios. This joined an oil tank car (4 drums on a flat wagon with a roof) and a bogie flat wagon based on a Huntsville & Lake of Bays prototypes. He was also working on building flat wagons from Mount Blue Models laser cut wooden kits.
Dick Johnson brought along ‘Tren Bach”. Running a selection of stock (including the Purple Moose special wagons – Pic004) meant that his Peco model of Princess (Pic005) had it’s first run since before Christmas.
Tim Williams made a welcome visit to the group. He brought along Chwarel Cwm Bach 2.0 for a run and it looks to be progressing very well indeed (Pic 006 & 7).
John Davies had also been busy at the workbench. His latest loco is based on the 2-6-4 Kitson locos built for the Leek & Manifold. John’s scratch built brass body runs on a Berlinerbahn chassis. This started out as a 2-8-2 but John has modified it to a 2-6-4 format.
Joseph Jacks brought along a pair of 3D printed locos (Pci009). First was a Fourdees ‘Little Isaac’ 0-4-2T. It was joined by a Decauville 0-4-0T printed by Alec Matthews (Pic010). Both had been finished in a rather nicely weathered olive green livery.
