toby_tl10 Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 I think we can expect one or two fictional liveries, or is 95820 enough for BR modellers? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted August 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Edge said: ‘Omaha’ has just been announced for the SVR steam gala. Think I may have to go for that if it’s produced in model form :) although I’m a sucker for a made up livery, so one in BR Black will be mighty tempting too I seem to remember reading years ago, that the Southern Railway asked for 40 S160’s in 1945/46 but the USATC said no. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessire_luvals Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 On 26/08/2023 at 22:05, TheQ said: There are photos of a S160 at the station I'm modelling during WW2, so I will be ordering one, the question will be how easy will it convert to EM gauge. I’m sure we’ll find a way! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scots region Posted August 28, 2023 Share Posted August 28, 2023 LMR blue’s gotta be a slam dunk. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatham.mrc Posted August 30, 2023 Share Posted August 30, 2023 honestly cant wait for these. there is atleast 3 i want haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEARJAMMER Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 I have to agree about the Longmoor Blue livery, id certainly be in the que to buy that. I mainly model modern image and have built up a very healthy rake of Dapol Yeoman stone wagons.... now which one was it that was pulling stone trains at the last Merehead Quarry open day????? Whatever one it was, i will buy it, no ifs, no buts, i'll buy it! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted September 16, 2023 Share Posted September 16, 2023 (edited) @GEARJAMMER If it's the one on 21st June 2008, it was 5197. Paul Edited September 16, 2023 by Hippel Added photo. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Fair Oak Junction Posted September 17, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2023 (edited) Am I right in thinking that, unlike some S100s, no S160s ever carried War Department markings during the war? Edited September 17, 2023 by Obsidian Quarry 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cane Posted September 17, 2023 Share Posted September 17, 2023 According to Tourret you are correct. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall5 Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 On 26/08/2023 at 13:19, The Stationmaster said: Now where are my 1975 photos of them in traffic in Poland I wonder? Dunno, but here's one I took at Fushun coal mine in China on New Year's Eve 1984. When I got home and showed the photo to the late Derek Foster he said "I've got to get one of those" - and so KD6 463 aka USATC 5197 came to the U.K. Ray. 11 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweenyTod1 Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Two pages and now nothing on the intended release date. I'm sure I saw somewhere that an update was due at the end of August, but "it's all quiet on the Western Front!" Anyone know what is happening? Tod 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Isherwood Posted October 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 27, 2023 6 minutes ago, SweenyTod1 said: Two pages and now nothing on the intended release date. I'm sure I saw somewhere that an update was due at the end of August, but "it's all quiet on the Western Front!" Anyone know what is happening? Tod Announced here at the end of August - what are you expecting after two months? Are we to have demands for updates every few minutes? CJI. 3 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pre Grouping fan Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 2 hours ago, SweenyTod1 said: Two pages and now nothing on the intended release date. I'm sure I saw somewhere that an update was due at the end of August, but "it's all quiet on the Western Front!" Anyone know what is happening? Tod Given it was only in design when announced at the end of August and added in the amount of variations they could be designing/tooling for it could be a while yet. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted October 27, 2023 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Always thought them odd-looking locos. I think it's because the smokebox door isn't central, although of course it's not displaced as a far as a Shay. I assume the boiler itself is normal and it's just a question of moving the door across slightly to make enough room for the Westinghouse pump. I do want one, but I'm not sure what livery I want it in, though it won't be blue ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium pete_mcfarlane Posted October 27, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 27, 2023 The offset smokebox door looks even weirder on the Hungarian ones where they did the usual Communist thing of painting red stars on them and moved the pump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MÁV_Class_411 (You can take the entire smokebox front off to get the tubes out, in case anyone was wondering....) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold papagolfjuliet Posted October 28, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2023 On 24/09/2023 at 17:04, Marshall5 said: Dunno, but here's one I took at Fushun coal mine in China on New Year's Eve 1984. When I got home and showed the photo to the late Derek Foster he said "I've got to get one of those" - and so KD6 463 aka USATC 5197 came to the U.K. Ray. Peter Clark's locomotive in China states that a minimum of fifteen S160s - CNR Class KD6 - were originally supplied and numbered 463 to 478+ (the + implying that there might have been more - the book dates from 1983 when concrete information was not easy to come by) and that by 1966 only two, the one in your photo and another, were still in traffic. That said I am convinced that I saw one shunting outside Jinan in 1998. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall5 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 On 28/10/2023 at 12:12, papagolfjuliet said: Peter Clark's locomotive in China states that a minimum of fifteen S160s - CNR Class KD6 - were originally supplied and numbered 463 to 478+ (the + implying that there might have been more - the book dates from 1983 when concrete information was not easy to come by) and that by 1966 only two, the one in your photo and another, were still in traffic. That said I am convinced that I saw one shunting outside Jinan in 1998. The person most likely to know posts as "Huochemi" on National Preservation. He has recently written a book on Chinese locos which specifically includes a section on the KD6's. Ray. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapido staff RapidoCorbs Posted April 27 Rapido staff Share Posted April 27 Command wants you to ID these two locomotives based on their differences. D-Day is imminent. Stand by for further instructions. 14 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil gollin Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 . Something different at the bottom right of the firebox - no idea of what they are. ------------- Will the wartime locos come with blackout curtains as all wartime ones would have used them at night ? . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted April 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27 If it's 'spot the difference' then here's 8 for starters: - Tender cab - Different shape boxes at the back of the coal space - Device on the side of the smokebox - possibly a vac ejector? - Dampers / covers? - Type of air pump - Step in main footplate - Lamp irons - Box in front of cab 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 7 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: ... - Device on the side of the smokebox - possibly a vac ejector? ... ... which would tie in with the hose above the buffer beam. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27 Do I recall an article in Trains mag something over 20 years ago, in which they pictured a 160, I think on the K&WVR, captioned "Alco? Baldwin? Lima? Yes!" or something like that. They had found the loco to include parts from all three builders. Inevitably each builder will have used his own techniques and methods of construction, outside-supplier parts etc. so the locos will have had detail differences for that reason alone. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Does that mean the Rapido model will include parts from, perhaps, Accurascale and Ellis Clark assembled at random ??!? 🙄 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSpencer Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 18 hours ago, Wickham Green too said: Does that mean the Rapido model will include parts from, perhaps, Accurascale and Ellis Clark assembled at random ??!? 🙄 Only if they do a WD 2-10-0. Then it will include parts from Bachmann (WD 2-8-0), Ellis Clark and KR models.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Well, the Westinghouse pump and European style buffers & couplings were probably common to them too ! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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