Our July meeting saw a bumper turnout of 16 (Pic000).
Dick Johnson brought along ‘Tren Bach’ after replacing the points on the layout twice. The first time to replace the originals that had failed. The second time when the replacements succumbed to thermal expansion. Quarry Hunslet ‘Alice’ was hauling a rake of Roco 4 wheel stock and a Kiso Forest break van from Minitrains. Despite the Roco stock being sold as N scale they didn’t look out of place with the 009 & HOe stock (Pic001). Dick also ran a Bachmann Rheneas with some added 3D printed details (Pic002). A Britomart pulling a train (Pic003) that included a pair of the new Peco FR bug boxes (Pic004) could also be seen.
Tim Williams made a welcome visit to a meeting (Pic005). He brought along a model of Port Dinorwic built by Kathy Millatt (Pic006) that Tim is looking after on behalf of the Bala Lake Railway. Tim has been reworking parts of the layout to make exhibiting it easier. This includes(adding a continuous run and some automation like a shuttle unit to the OO ‘main line’. To do that the 0-6-0 Jinty needed it’s DCC chip to be reprogrammed. Mac Strong had kindly brought along his DCC controller to renumber the Jinty (pic007) which was then tested with the shuttle unit (Pic008).
As Mac had the DCC set up the opportunity was taken to test run Tim’s DCC-fitted 009 Ruston. This is a Shape-way print on Tomitech chassis (Pic009). Also running on DCC was Mac’s Lilliput German loco (Pic010) that usually sees service on Mac’s layout ‘Hunker Down’.
Ben Powell brought along his ‘industrial’ Bagnall Meyer. Now named ‘Titan’ it joined with a scratch built RNAD bogie flat wagon (Pic011). These headed a rake of Bachmann RNAD stock and 009 Society kits on Peter Hardy’s test track (Pic012). Julien Webb brought along his latest item of stock. Made from the 009 Society scratch aid kit for the US Box Car (pic013), it has been built with the doors open and some unofficial passengers inside.
Peter Hardy has also been working with the 009 Society scratch aid kits. Using the Australian open coach body parts shortened made a bogie coach. He had also made a second bogie coach with balcony made from Colin Ashby parts (Pic014). These joined a scratch built van and open built onto Peco N-scale chassis (Pic015). Also running but missing the photographer’s lens was Ian Willetts’ Minitrains Bagnall and Ben Powell’s Drewry diesel. Something else that missed being snapped was David Churchill’s 3d printed kit for a DHR coach that had come all the way from India.
Adrian Hall brought along the pair of Shays seen at the May meeting. These have now been ‘tuned’ to vastly improve their running. Adrian’s next job was to detail them ready for use with the rest of Adrian’s HOn3 stock (Pic016).
David Wilcox brought along some SM-32 stock, (Pic017) and some bags of ballast left over from his garden railway that he was selling off to raise money for the group.
Matthew Tozer had brought along his model making tools and during the meeting built one of the Dundas Models Irish NG wagon kits (Pic018).
