There wasn't a whole lot to report from Sunday, though I was certainly busy. I was running CSL 1374, the "Matchbox," all day for the last day of the Day Out With Thomas event, with Riley as my conductor. Everything seemed to go very smoothly and the crowd, as always, was very impressive. We ended up making about 30 loops around the car line. I didn't get a chance to snap a photo until late in the afternoon when things were dying down.
And speaking of dinner, Zach brought along an O scale locomotive that he built from a brass kit and hand-painted, even painting all the striping by hand using One-Shot. It's GWR 4019 Knight Templar, a Star-class 4-6-0 built at Swindon in 1908. What a beauty! It reminds me of Didcot...
Franks, Funny you should mention Ditcot! It is my favorite standard gauge museum in the British Isles, They havee brought back two classes of extinct great western locomotives, to say nothing of their steam powered Rail Motor. She is a steam Interurban that was used on branch lines. They built the entire power truck!
ReplyDeleteTed Miles, IRM Member
Well, Ted, you have of course come to the right place. Didcot is also my favorite British museum, and I visited it several times in 1977 whilst doing some of my graduate work at Oxford. Perhaps I can scan in some of my slides from that time, if there's any popular demand. Didcot has obviously made great progress since that time, as has IRM.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see your old slides from Didcot, Randall. Didcot is on my list of places that I need to visit if/when ever I get over to the UK, as well as Bristol and London since I have friends who live in Bristol and London.
ReplyDelete-Matt Maloy