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Photo of the Week No. 747
Hohenzollern tram loco running on the York Model Engineers club track. Built by Peter Angus, it is powered by a geared steam oscillating unit from Eian Green.
Photo: Paul Howard
Photo of the Week No. 746
Silver Lady and a Harlech Castle in a 3D printed shed. The building is approx. 45 cm by 30 cm and not painted unless apart from a colourless protection vanish.
Photo: TOR ANDRESEN
Photo of the Week No. 745
Visiting locos on John Blackwell’s South Durham Railway.
Photo: Peter Dawes
Photo of the Week No. 744
Photo: Peter Scott
Photo of the Week No. 743
“Fallaire les Bains” is a 32mm gauge, 1/22.5 scale layout based mainly on Faller E-Train. (This is strictly rather NG 14mm, not NG 16mm!) The blue locomotive has a modified Faller body with a chassis from ETS, while the red locomotive is a well-known LGB.
Photo: Jean-Paul Borlée
May 2023 – Warnham Brickworks Tipper
Manchester or Ship wagon
By Peter Dawes
This model is based on a September 1965 article in The Industrial Railway Record No.7. The drawing is small and […]
March 2023 – Scratch-built tram carriages to match Regner “Paul”
By Alan Hodgson
Tram engines in their many forms have fascinated me for a long time and when Regner released their model “Paul”, I had to […]
June 2022 – Building the “Arthur Koppel” Railcar in 7/8ths
By Gerd Neumann
While browsing some narrow gauge photo-sites came across a very neat electric loco/railcar running on 2ft/60cm track. Most electric railcars need an overhead […]
February 2022 – Twll Mwg: A Dinorwic Slab Wagon
By Simon Fletcher
Hi again folks. It’s been a while since I last wrote something for Model of the Month. Where Covid lockdowns gave us additional […]
November 2021 – Building a pair of IP Engineering Tal-y-llyn Railway 2-Bar Slate Wagons
By Mike Barton
Above: “Dolgoch” shunting slate wagons on a damp November afternoon. Compare to this 1941 photo by W.A. Camwell.
I recently built […]