The Pine Hill Railway (PHRy) - a Norwegian Garden Railway

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Post by Keith S » Mon Feb 04, 2013 6:39 pm

That looks nice. You must be excited. Also, I just watched your winter video, I hadn't noticed it there before.

What is the lowest temperature you've run your locomotive at, Kjell?

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Post by EiSvIn » Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:17 pm

Silver Lady is a beauty! An the color superb. :D

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Post by KjellAn » Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:00 pm

Thanks for the greetings!

The Silver Lady will have some more details; chopper-couplings, change some cheese-head screws to hex-head bolts, real coal-lumps in the coal-bins, a chuffer, and of course nameplates.

In some way I think of this engine as a female - there are more things on the engine to handle at same time ;) and she is a beauty. :D
Her brother is a RH Billy called "ALF". Maybe the "Lady" should have a nordic name of a kind? What do members of the forum suggest?

The temperature was about 10 degrees below freezing. I did not actually have any problems with the gas flow or burner.
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Post by Keith S » Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:34 am

"Nordsjöld".

I don't know what it means, I just went to an island with that name in the Arctic ocean and liked the sound of the word. Norwegians named many things in Canada.

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Post by EiSvIn » Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:42 pm

I think "ALVA" would be a nice female name matching "ALF".

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Post by RuneK » Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:39 pm

What about "Frøya"? Or wait a while and se if she reveals her name herself.
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Post by KjellAn » Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:31 pm

A name for my Silver Lady ... :?: Suggestions so far:

ALVA - old Norse origin
FRØYA - old Norse origin / goddess
NORDSJÖLD - Canadian origin
FRIGG - old Norse origin / goddess
VICTORIA - latin origin
VIKTORIA - latin origin with nordic letters

The "nordic" letters ÆØÖÅ are a little peculiar for most members of this forum, but not actually a problem when ordering the MDC-nameplates.
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Post by St.Michael » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:41 pm

As I see it, it has to be:
"Alfhild"

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Post by Keith S » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:39 am

I have discovered that I spelled the word "Nordskjold" wrong... there is a letter "k", as you can see.... otherwise I have also discovered that it is just some person's surname, it doesn't mean anything. A related name is "Nordenskjold", which is also some person's name. So although I think it would make a good name for a locomotive, it doesn't mean anything in particular other than being the name of a small Island in Canada, as well as an Archipelago in Russia.

I think out of the suggestions so far, I like "Alva", it goes well with the other locomotive's name.

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Post by KjellAn » Thu May 09, 2013 9:00 pm

Hello

Some times I'm looking for a model which gives me a historical recognition.

The picture below was taken in 1920 showing an old 2 ft NG line from my hometown. The 0-2-0 engine - an O&K and the hoppers
was carrying gravel and sand to a silo. Standard-gauge wagons was then filled with sand from the silo. The NG line was in
operation from 1905 untill 1950 when a fire destroyed the sand silo.

The next picture is how the scene looks like today. :)

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The wagons are LGB converted to 32mm gauge, and the LGB-couplings are replaced with RH-couplings.
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Post by Keith S » Fri May 10, 2013 2:26 am

Nice picture. I see your snow is probably gone; no such luck over here yet.

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Post by KjellAn » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:12 am

June 2013

Here are some pics from the last livesteam-meeting at the Pine Hill Railway (PHRy).

Enjoy them ...


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Tom Rolt with a short freighttrain.


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Engine no 2 on its way out on the line's big wooden trestle. The engine has not yet received her nameplates - wait and see.


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A visiting tram on the trestle.


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A real beauty - "Silver Lady".


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Engine no 2 with a long mixed train.


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The trestle is 75cm (2,5ft) at its highest level above ground level.


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Evening mood at the Pine Hill station.


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Here are some of the engines at steamup tracks.


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Post by LnBmad » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:41 am

Looks like a great railway with some tidy models!
If it can be made full scale it can be made 16mm

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Post by Big Al » Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:14 pm

A lovely looking railway with some nice loco's and some sunny weather. 8)
Allen Hopper - early retirement can't beat it !

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Post by KjellAn » Sat Nov 02, 2013 8:59 am

October 2013

Here are some pics from the last steamup-meeting at the Pine Hill Railway (PHRy). A nice warm saturday - and everybody was having a great day.

Enjoy the pics ...  :D


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A "Silver Lady" in front of a freight train at Pine Hill station.

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"Silver Lady" with a lot of accessories.

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"Alf" comming out of the tunnel. The tunnel opening and the retaining wall are now covered with pieces of slate.

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"Alf" and a pair of sandhoppers in a hurry ...

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Evening mood at Pine Hill station.

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PHRy's new coach  - a Brandbright PS18. The coach is fitted with boggies instead of the axelboxes that comes with the kit. This because my line has a lot of narrow curves.

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Evening mood at Pine Hill station.

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A new coal-bin at Pine Hill station.

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"Bjørn Ivar" - a modified RH Lady Anne.

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Smalltalk about Railway'ing in the Garden.

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Steamup.

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A RH Claude.

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A RH Claude.

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One of the guests has this rake of Lego-waggons after his RH Charles.

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Charles and the Lego-waggons crossing the bridge by the waterfall.

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My "Victoria" looks very nice in the evening sun at the Pine Hill Railway.
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Post by Lner fan Sam » Sun Nov 03, 2013 1:04 pm

That silver lady with the Westinghouse pump looks lovely. :D
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Post by rebelego » Sun Nov 03, 2013 3:19 pm

KjellAn:91241 wrote:One of the guests has this rake of Lego-waggons after his RH Charles.
Guess who? ;) A nice shot of my train.

You have a very nice and inspiring railway. I look forward to the next steam-up.

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Post by KjellAn » Sun Nov 03, 2013 5:23 pm

Lner fan Sam:91272 wrote:That silver lady with the Westinghouse pump looks lovely. :D
The Silver Lady with the air-pump belongs to railway-friend that tricked me into livesteam and the fantastic world of 16mm NG on 32mm track. :D
He also showed me how to put accessories to the engines - without beeing afraid of drilling holes in these expensive things ... ;)
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Post by KjellAn » Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:13 am

December 2013

A new engine arrived at the PHrY before Christmas - a Roundhouse Little John.

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I think it looks too nice and glossy now, but I will try to make some weathering to it.

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Here is Little John with a rake of gravelwagons.


The last wagon will have a brakeplatform for the brakeman. It is actually not a platform - it's more a seat hanging on the rear end of the wagon.
The wagon came this day out of the paintshop. I think the painter must have had a bad day. ;)

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Tue Dec 31, 2013 11:36 am

Excellent, thats exactly the sort of thing that I want to do to the one I've just bought. How easy would it be to distort the LGB plastic?
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