Forest Fields Railway September steamup

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Forest Fields Railway September steamup

Post by laalratty » Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:39 pm

Yesterday was the second Saturday in September, which could only mean one thing, the second steamup of the year at the Forest Fields Railway. Knowing how much fun this line can be to run on, I asked James (Dolwyddellanlightrail) whether he wanted to come to. His answer was an emphatic yes!
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Matt was also present with his Lawley Whinlatter
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Pheonix with my coaches, leaving a smokescreen as usual
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King Arthur comes to the bottom of the spiral
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Oil needs turning down perhapes? :lol:
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I bought along Russell. Unfortunatly it's a swine to drive and take pics of at the same time, so this is the only one I got of it on the move
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After years of persuading, PTLRcecil has finally realised that triple headers can be fun. Pheonix leads Whinlatter and King Arthur on the noisest and longest train of the day
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Later, Pheonix left the 0-6-0T's to it
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Russell and King Arthur then went top and tailing
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Meanwhile on shed, Garratt superpower was raising steam
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And making even more smoke then Pheonix. PTLRsam was seen putting lube oil down the chimneys :lol:
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Powis Castle slogs up the hill before running out of steam, the performance of this beast is still not really optimised and it will probably be off to visit the PTLR works!
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Black Coombe, which also became a failure when it melted its radio gear. So the superpower turned out not to be so "super" after all :roll:
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Passing garratts
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A final shot of superpower that did work!
Thanks to FFR Mike and co for another great steamup

DolwyddelanLightRail

Post by DolwyddelanLightRail » Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:51 pm

Here's my pics from the cracking day! :D

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Spule 4

Post by Spule 4 » Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:22 am

Great photos, thank you for posting them.

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Post by TonyW » Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:05 am

Nice!

What is Black Combe's history?
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Annie

Post by Annie » Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:43 am

Stunning photos :)

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:41 pm

Tony, Black Coombe is one of the 25 Locobox Afrakaan's produced and is owned by Sam of the Pine Tree Light Railway from new. It's pretty much as bought (apart from possibly some correction of build faults, although I don't personally know to what extent this is the case). I do know Sam has changes planned to improve performance, based around changing some of the layout of the steam lines, and addition of lagging to pipework

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Post by TonyW » Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:38 pm

Thanks Chris ... it looks rather nice!
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Spule 4

Post by Spule 4 » Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:08 am

I am still impressed with the paint job for Steelfox, grey with the lining looks very sharp.

Pendo Pilot

Post by Pendo Pilot » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:22 pm

Lovely pics, looks like a grand day. Really like the Garratts of course. Did also note the 'Hornby Catalogue" type error in James first pic.. :D

Narrow Minded

Post by Narrow Minded » Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:17 am

'Hornby Catalogue" type error in James first pic..
Would that be RUSSEL's pony wheels?! ;)

Pendo Pilot

Post by Pendo Pilot » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:18 pm

Narrow Minded:74748 wrote:
'Hornby Catalogue" type error in James first pic..
Would that be RUSSEL's pony wheels?! ;)
It would indeed mate, a coined phrase from years in the 00 side. How many of their locos used to feature with a bogie or pony truck off the road! :D :roll: :twisted:

George

Post by George » Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:33 pm

some fantastic shots there :D

laalratty

Post by laalratty » Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:27 pm

Pendo Pilot:74752 wrote:
Narrow Minded:74748 wrote:
'Hornby Catalogue" type error in James first pic..
Would that be RUSSEL's pony wheels?! ;)
It would indeed mate, a coined phrase from years in the 00 side. How many of their locos used to feature with a bogie or pony truck off the road!  :D  :roll:  :twisted:
The funny thing is look at recent ad's from Roundhouse featuring the Alco WD tank (not the Mountaineer), some of them feature a pic with the rear pony truck derailed! :lol:
Must admit that photo does bug me a bit... :roll:

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