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Full marks to ‘First Great Western’ for this novel idea in painting their fuel storage tanks at their Bristol HST Depot to look like Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
Thomas the Tank engine at Buckfastleigh station on May 1st 2000, taken with a Ricoh DC-4U camera with 1.3 mega-pixels
Hauling a string of 8, matched wooden coaches at a "Day out with Thomas" event in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, the Strasburg Rail Road's live-steam "Thomas" enters the yard with a sold out trainload of happy kids and their parents. The former Brooklyn Eastern District Locomotive #15 has now been in service as the character from the children's book series "Thomas & Friends" for a quarter of a century and he's still very popular with the kiddos. Although just a dockside switcher underneath the baby blue sheet metal, this is one very powerful locomotive, or as the book says: " A very useful engine." I have personally witnessed this engine on many occasions, starting a full loaded, 8-car train from a dead stop on the grade above Cherry Hill, with very little wheel-slip, and stack-talk that you could hear in the next county.
A really useful engine takes some box vans for a jolly up Medstead bank, during a Covid 19 staff training day.
The Quarry was a fun build, and literally all three of us contributed. Really enjoyed doing the rock work on this following the curve of the track. Notice the technic rack on the tracks...
Along with Spencer, Diesel is the engine I'm most proud of, and perhaps moreso as he is completely my own design. Originally designed with a cheese slope pattern on the sides, this was ditched in favour of stickers due to the lack of parts (dark tan clips don't exist) but also space, as this allowed me to also fit an M motor and gearing to make his claw spin around!
Trying to get a picture this evening of my son's crazy train collection. Took me waaay too long. Towards the end I started getting in them and came up with this. It didn't start out as a self-portrait and I didn't mean to chop my head off initially, but I sort of like the way it finally turned out.
In the process of making Percy, I looked up some real Saddle Tank locomotives to base the realistic design off of. First one was Trojan no. 1340
Based off of this picture www.flickr.com/photos/rogerwasley/51159528298
Dunaskin Ironworks Museum (now closed) houses many deceased trains and carriages, this one is possibly the most famous of them all. A sad sight indeed.
Revised Percy to better fit the profile of the final CG iteration of the character.
Had to do a lot of work to adjust to a 1/4 plate offset so the boiler sits flush on the running plate
My version of Upper Bendham Station from the TTTE episode Bertie's Chase which is the third episode in second series.
Overview of the quarry line with the steep incline that required a rack. You can also see Josh's fantastic aqueduct bridge and mountain. And Andrew's shed for Mavis.
Or is it Linda?...... it sure as hell ain't Thomas!
The little blue engine stands at Alresford waiting to depart for Ropley with the shuttle.
Steam workshop roof features many minifig plates, and the windows are double framed with glass behind the bars. This was a fun little 'last minute' build.
Inspired by a few designs out there, and the addition of some newer pieces available, I figured I was ready to design a proper looking Thomas
In the first step of slimming the 8-W model to 7-W, the base plate of the body was adjusted to be 7 studs wide, and the cab was reduced to 6 studs wide
The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Trust at the Talyllyn Railway’s Wharf Station are custodians of the Rev W Awdry’s model Ffarquhar layout and we were lucky to see it running.
This season, Puffing BIlly's Thomas days have moved from their former home at Emerald to the end of the line at Gembrook.
On the second day of Thomas trains, 6A and Thomas have just been lit up.
Finished repairing "The Railway Stories" at Otter Bookbinding on Monday. Had to create a new spine to insert into the existing covers. Only after I got home did I discover that the next volumes in the series all have the spine label reading top to bottom not bottom to top! I must remember to pay more attention to detail!
At least the book is now reconnected to the boards ready for the grandchildren when they are a little older.