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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?

Silver Lady is a beauty! An the color superb.

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.
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.

"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.

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

What about "Frøya"? Or wait a while and se if she reveals her name herself.

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.

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

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.

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.




The wagons are LGB converted to 32mm gauge, and the LGB-couplings are replaced with RH-couplings.

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

June 2013

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

Enjoy them ...



Tom Rolt with a short freighttrain.



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.



A visiting tram on the trestle.



A real beauty - "Silver Lady".



Engine no 2 with a long mixed train.



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



Evening mood at the Pine Hill station.



Here are some of the engines at steamup tracks.


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Looks like a great railway with some tidy models!

A lovely looking railway with some nice loco's and some sunny weather.

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



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


"Silver Lady" with a lot of accessories.


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


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


Evening mood at Pine Hill station.


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.


Evening mood at Pine Hill station.


A new coal-bin at Pine Hill station.


"Bjørn Ivar" - a modified RH Lady Anne.


Smalltalk about Railway'ing in the Garden.


Steamup.


A RH Claude.


A RH Claude.


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


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


My "Victoria" looks very nice in the evening sun at the Pine Hill Railway.

That silver lady with the Westinghouse pump looks lovely.

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.

Lner fan Sam:91272 wrote:That silver lady with the Westinghouse pump looks lovely.

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.
He also showed me how to put accessories to the engines - without beeing afraid of drilling holes in these expensive things ...

December 2013

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


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


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.

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?