Bonfire Steaming at York MES

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Bonfire Steaming at York MES

Post by williamfj » Sun Nov 03, 2013 11:10 pm

The York MES steamup seems to have been rather similar to the PTLR's, starting relatively dry before everything got a good soaking. I packed up in frustration only to stay for a couple of hours before taking some of my stuff back out for a quick blast in the dark!

Do you have trouble keeping your line free of leaves and snow? You need one of these!
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This was often scuttling about ready to provide banking assistance if anyone wasn't paying attention!
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A nicely turned out Silver Lady with some open top Brandbright coaches, there were no passengers in any of them oddly, they must have seen the weather forecast!
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This started out life as a standard Millie, only to have the back of it's frames cut off to fit a meths tank.
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And this is what that Millie looks like with it's clothes on, there is another tram body giving her owner 2 locos for the price of one, just don't try to double head them!
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The Millie tram is seen in the company of a model of Sir Theodore powered by a single oscillating cylinder supplied by a meths fired pot boiler.
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While I sulked with my stock packed up after a good soaking I was put in control of this beast of a Garratt, I sincerely doubt a NGG16 will beat this for sheer grunt.
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Last years lighting solution of strapping a light to one of my vans worked but it lacked, elegance. This is much more elegant of course. ;)
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Finally 2 photos of Minnie after appearing to have ploughed into my box of tricks.
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For once I have enough video to have a crack at making a video instead of a few moving pictures, although it will be Minnie-centric. Hopefully I'll have that done and up by tomorrow evening.

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Post by SapperAnt » Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:16 pm

"Millile the Tram" is gorgeous........

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Post by williamfj » Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:50 pm

Her other body is even better looking, sadly I haven't got any photos of it.

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Post by Lner fan Sam » Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:57 pm

Looks like a good track there, will have to get down there sometime to play trains... :D
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Post by williamfj » Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:50 pm

If you're interested Sam this page has details and a couple of videos of the line and the remaining dates for this year.
http://www.yorksme.org.uk/wp/?page_id=111

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Post by williamfj » Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:34 pm

I've finally made my video from the running day. I hope anyone who watches it finds it acceptable, any advice on making better videos would be welcome.
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Post by LMS-Jools » Thu Nov 07, 2013 6:07 pm

most enjoyable ta. :D

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Post by Keith S » Thu Nov 07, 2013 9:41 pm

I found that video more than acceptable. I especially liked the middle bit, where we were just sitting by the tracks watching the various trains going by. "Minnie" runs very well too.

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Post by williamfj » Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:00 pm

Yes I mean to do more of that, I wish I took my camera out more during the day to catch the other things running on the 16mm. With a good load Minnie does have a loud healthy bark, just like her namesake!

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