Quite a lot of modelling progress at the moment, but not enough for a full blog post.  Soon, I hope.  In the meantime, a few more odds and ends.  Two ESNG meetings this week that should produce a few dodgy pictures.

Trams from Tooting and Lisbon.  Both very modellable!

Pont Llanio milk factory suggests an interesting model, but I couldn’t find a station track plan anywhere on the web…. 

A compact but interesting HO plan.  It does have 15″ radius curves, but a little expansion would make a good N gauge shortline.  (Plan: Rob Chant.)

A ‘big’ Minories.  “Southformoonshine” was a classic OO layout, that included several simplified outer London stations, including Reigate, and ended in a reverse loop to send the trains back again.  (From an old Model Railway Constructor annual.)  Putting the terminus on a curve eliminates all reverse curves.

Two pictures of Smallbrook Junction IOW in 1960 and 1961 (colour picture by Paul Jay.)

And a still from the epic opening scene from the classic 1955 film “Bad Day at Black Rock.”

All is not as it seems.  The line had bee abandoned for a number of years, so they actually ran the consist backwards at 10 mph and had a helicopter film it. They then reversed the film and sped it up to give the impression that the train was going forward at what would’ve been track speed, 50 mph.  Normal club night at ESNG, of course!

My other modelling job at the moment is to spring clean the loft.  It’s amazing how many small boxes I have containing the same thing as other small boxes.  And I’ve found a number of projects that I really ought to finish!