Well, two of them did, anyway...
The Welsh Highland Railway were having an exhibition and Gala day up at Dinas Station near Caernarfon over the weekend, so Colin and I got permission from the domestic authorities and took off for the day.
Grand weather, and a good run up to North Wales. Breakfast at the Festiniog Station Cafe in Porthmadoc, and then on to Dinas. Around a dozen model layouts, mostly in 009 gauge, a large 0 gauge live steam, and an amazing live steam 009 demonstation and layout. Heres the layout, closed and open:
The tiny boilers are fired by an ethanol burner, and the locos given a hand nudge to overcome inertia, and off they go! no speed control, but the amount of load seems to act as a slowing function.
Outside there were free footplate rides on a selection of narrow gauge locos from the Welsh Highland stable and the Festiniog. Couple of examples below:
On our way home we went via Tywyn and called in at the Tal-y-llyn station for a cup of tea and a snack and a quick look around their museum.
Fortunately for us the famous 'Dolgoch' engine was in steam, and about to leave with a train for the last run to Abergynolwen. Here she is powering up and leaving the station:
And off home!
On the modelling front, I found an old picture of a steam crane that was operating at Forest Quarry (part of our Teifi Gorge Layout)
I idly suggested to Colin when we met at the Cardi-Bach Society meeting that it would make a good model... it doesn't take much to start him off...
He produced this to show me when we were out on saturday:
Looking forward to tonights meeting to see what else he has done!!
Best to everybody - Chuffer 1
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