45. A couple of photographs, including a new wagon.
Pottering between jobs awaiting replacement permanent way for the south fan of sidings, I have tried to maintain my motivation by composing a few pictures of wagon-load goods trains. Taking delivery this week of a new Bachmann 'Pipe' SOV, I included it in a 'military special' from the West Country, pulled by a Hymek - such a handsome loco. I took @Fat Controller 's idea of having a filing cabinet buttressed by stout timbers in a VVV as a load. Thanks!
The local copper keeps an eye on the wagon with the ammunition, and the Bedford positions itself to take the filing-cabinet.
Here a different train arrives - the daily Up Goods from Tilling port - with some home-made steel loads rather too small to see: some concrete reinforcing mesh (to be rusted) and some 6" R.S.J. for the local builder's merchant. The '71' is pretending to be a '74'.
Again, the lack of suitable figures is annoying. I am trying to think of a shot that captured some of the atmosphere of layouts seen recently exhibiting a real sense of abandonment. Almost a 'last train to clear out the wagons before the track-lifter moved in', with empty expanses of hard-standing and sidings, but I can not get the result wanted in an eye-level shot. Perhaps just a '73' with only three wagons? Time next weekend, I hope, to try more compositions.
Edited by C126
'Pipe' not "Tube".
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