2024 New Locos

 2024 new locos.

We had three exhibitions with the PHLR in the first half of 2024, two with Raven Hill and one with Pye Rigg Works, and three exhibitions also with our 009 layout Shortwaite Hill which is still getting nice comments from visitors.  Modelling time has been very intermittent, but three new locos have appeared, Ladon, Kur and Scylla.

Towards the end of 2023 I bought a box of second hand O9 models from a nice chap in Wakefield.  There were many un-made kits by  Avalon Line, Black Dog and Unit models were amongst them. Also some poorly made part built kits, Ladon was was one of them, an Avalon Line ALD1-9.  Like Hyena (see previous post) it was restored as best I could and re-painted.  Resin goes very brittle as it ages, so some bits broke off, other parts I could get apart without too much damage and were re-aligned and glued.  Runs on a Kato 11-103.

Kur is a Hudson Hunslet by Floyd-Kraemer (FK3dprint). Runs on a Kato 11-109.

"Kur" (A huge Sumerian serpent Dragon) and "Ladon"  (Greek mythology: dragon who guards  the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides) posed together at Drawley.

Scylla, a 4-wheeled tram loco by Pankot Models (3D print), with a brake column added in the cab.  Runs on a Kato 11-104.

 

"Scylla" (six-headed sea monster in Greek mythology)

Also in the second hand collection were these two small bow-ended open wagons, Avalon Line AL36 resin kits.  A third has now been added after a Facebook O9 group friend sold me an extra one.

Early in June I was surprisingly asked to exhibit Drawley at an "O" Gauge event at the Mid-Suffolk Railway along with some of the Norfolk & Suffolk NGM Group. I was strangely displaying in a standard gauge closed van near the platform, along with another member of the Group. 

A photo taken with flash with diesels Knucker and Ladon.  It was the first ever exhibition for Drawley.

I am currently working on some part-built goods vehicles from the Wakefield collection plus a Avalon Line railbus from the same source.