Instead I'll post an occasional picture with a narrow gauge theme, to inject a bit of interest into the blog. They wont have captions, but I'll identify them in the following post.
For this post we have the following. Obviously French, and now long gone. Any ideas?
At the Hermon show last week, we did have one minor glitch - our commercial locomotive 'Rosie' ran for most of the morning non-stop on the Dyffryn Y Tyllau layout, but for some unknown reason decided to throw in the towel, and refused to go any further:
Colin happened along for the afternoon session, and took Rosie home with him to investigate.
Chufferduffers met at Colins on Tuesday, and I'm now happy to report that after some intensive operations and medical care in the Herrington Hospital for Sickly Steam Engines (pictured below)
Rosie was declared fit and well and able to return to duties. Colin had set up his small branch terminal and was able to give a short demonstration of Rosie's performance.
Here she is push-pulling a short train of Festiniog style coaches.
Whilst at Colins I noticed one of his scratch built locos that I don't think has been seen on the blog.
Sporting rather spiffy name-plates here is 'CNWCE'
With Hermon under our belts, the exhibition circuit is over for 2017, so all the layouts have been stacked away in a corner of the garage, some waiting to go to Peter Towns new shed, which will house the Cardi-Bach museum, and hopefully a permanent home for the associated layouts.
Here they are neatly stored:
Next year we hope to resurrect the 'Teifi Gorge' quarry layout, so to that end I moved all the boxed boards up into the workshop and erected the layout ready for overhaul and additional work at the next Chuffers meeting, hopefully next Tuesday.
Annie, my wife, was not too happy about the appearance of the backscene, so yesterday that was given bit of a makeover. Many thanks, Annie!
Two blog posts in one week... I'm spoiling you.
Hwyl,
Shaun.
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