RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2013 I have just seen photos of the Colas 70s on TTX flat cars on the move posted on Facebook Not sure how to link them using the iPad but they do look good ..with a little dusting of snow on them aswell! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 13, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2013 (edited) https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1476020_10202622141101426_1642167943_n.jpg sweet!! i think i got my Bachmann one pretty much right, just need to add a bit to the black under the windows you wouldnt believe how much of a swine it was to get the line straight between the black and orange/yellow, it looks rougher than it is as the handrails are black Edited December 13, 2013 by big jim 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 13, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2013 That is so close that many might think you had already seen the proposals for these!!!! I can well believe how hard it must be trying to paint those lines on all those doors after modelling American hood units. I hope a Farish do this livery. I will be able to run it on my USA layout albeit on a flat car! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 13, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2013 That is so close that many might think you had already seen the proposals for these!!!! yeah, funny how the decals are exactly the right size and in the right place Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 13, 2013 Hi Jim, I'm having a go at fitting the extra cooling units. Also need to alter the black under the cabside windows - strange coincidence? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/53157-newbryfords-mostly-yellow-workbench/page-25&do=findComment&comment=1261822 Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 13, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 13, 2013 you can do me a couple of those units if you like!! i won the "yellow ends" competition though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpb56125 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 56094 worked the late running Sinfin tanks today at Winwick Jn http://mark5812.smugmug.com/Trains2013-1/December-2013/i-2Km7R4p Mark http://mark5812.smugmug.com 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 19, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 19, 2013 and im working it back to carlisle tomorrow been a hectic couple of days for us few drivers with wide ranging route knowledge i can tell ya! even drove a freightliner 66 last night 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 19, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2013 and im working it back to carlisle tomorrow been a hectic couple of days for us few drivers with wide ranging route knowledge i can tell ya! even drove a freightliner 66 last night Is that to replace 56302? Looks like 302 was in trouble today with 6J37. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Is that to replace 56302? Looks like 302 was in trouble today with 6J37. Cheers, Mick and im working it back to carlisle tomorrow been a hectic couple of days for us few drivers with wide ranging route knowledge i can tell ya! even drove a freightliner 66 last night 66104 has been reported as working 6J37 with 302 dead... Not really been a good few weeks for Colas with there excellent reliability. I'm at Crewe tomorrow so hopefuly I'll see you there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 20, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2013 Just got back from chirk and 56302 is sat in the cripple siding, dont know whats up with it though, the schenker 66 left with the carlisle set about an hour before i got there with the baglan train with 66848 up front Been a crazy busy week, had 3 nights of the logs with 56302 which WAS running like a dream! Then i had a night of bescot to hinksey with a freightliner loco, 66510, last night (thursday) was the baglan logs (maiden voyage from hereford for me), tomorrow (friday) is over to sinfin to work that to carlisle and then all being well the trip back should be a 47 with a load of FGW mk3s and barrier coaches! Hopefully saturday off to recover!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250BOB Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 (edited) Just got back from chirk and 56302 is sat in the cripple siding, dont know whats up with it though, the schenker 66 left with the carlisle set about an hour before i got there with the baglan train with 66848 up front Been a crazy busy week, had 3 nights of the logs with 56302 which WAS running like a dream! Then i had a night of bescot to hinksey with a freightliner loco, 66510, last night (thursday) was the baglan logs (maiden voyage from hereford for me), tomorrow (friday) is over to sinfin to work that to carlisle and then all being well the trip back should be a 47 with a load of FGW mk3s and barrier coaches! Hopefully saturday off to recover!! Hi Jim, I saw the Sinfin tanks tonight(Friday), about 5.20pm through Uttoxeter.........I was in the queue waiting at the barrier gates, but about 20 cars back, and with a difficult view. I could see it was a Colas loco livery, but couldnt discern whether it was a 47 or 56.? Judging by the length of the queue, the gates had been down some time.....was it your fault, or had something gone the other way too. Enjoy your rest. Bob. Edited December 20, 2013 by 250BOB Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 21, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2013 i came in to uttoxeter with the distant on so had to crawl round to the signals as i need to treat them as all being on hence why it took me a while the loco was 56094 btw i had a nightmare of a journey last night, 68 early out of derby but 180 late into carlisle due to flooding and multiple signal failure between shap and carlisle, ended up sitting in penrith from about 0025 to 0200 only one pic, a bit blurred but again, no tripod the train i was booked to work north never happened either, it wouldnt have run with me on it anyway as due to the problems i ended up doing 15 hours anyway, thanksfully the last 2 and a bit were asleep in a taxi 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 27, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2013 something a bit different tonight, a portbury to ratcliffe coal, diverted via the welsh marches so getting on at hereford (after driving a van there, what a swine of a place that looks to get to from crewe) then running to shrewsbury, round the avoider (first time for me doing that), through wolverhampton station to walsall and onto ratcliffe via leicester (but getting off in toton to drive home) looking forward to it, not done a coal on the marches before, then when thats over its a couple of days of landor st to ratcliffe and return and then a refresh of the liverpool area 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted December 27, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 27, 2013 and then a refresh of the liverpool area I wonder why??? Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 28, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2013 Yes i wonder! The coal was cancelled in the end, luckily i was only a couple of miles from home when i found out so i juat turned round! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 31, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2013 had a long night last night, did a train from landor st to ratcliffe and was booked to work it back to landor st, anyway it all went a bit wrong as there were problems in the power station with the unloaders so i ended up arriving 90 mins late due to a long line of trains waiting to get unloaded, ended up leaving about 3 hours late too!! had a freightliner engine last night too, 66952 which promptly decided to play up between sheet stores and stenson which involved a very "IT crowd" solution to rectify, "turn it off and back on again" which cured it thankfully, ended up getting relief at burton on trent and driving home from there, some 14 hours after i started!! off tomorrow, then refreshing liverpool on wednesday including the docks 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 2, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) back to it today, had a trip to liverpool to refresh the docks in readyness for the class 70s arriving next week, started off by driving over in a van to regents road shunters cabin where i met up with fellow forum member 40044 who kindy offered to show me the route down to seaforth, as i've only been as far as the coal hopper before, nothing taxing, couple of crossings, one of which you have to operate yourself, some fantastic remnants of the old liverpool overhead railway down there if you know where to look! this came in as we were there..... in the middle of running round and back on the train.... then i headed off in the van, i was going to call into hattons but it was out of my way really so i continued out to earlestown to catch a train back to edge hill to refresh the route while i was there a northern unit headed off towards warrington bank quay and once that cleared, this came the other way en-route to LBT crossing out onto the mainline, i noticed that the crossover from the chat moss line into the loop here has been severed (you cant see it in the pics) and onto edge hill on a northern 156 (driven this one with FNW) not much to report en route other than the foundations for the OHLE stantions are pretty much complete the whole way in to liverpool, also the bridge that used to carry the old line to widnes (Clock tower?) over the liverpool-manchester line has been removed but i'm not sure how recent at huyton the work continues to add another running line between there and broad green(ish) is still underway and into edge hill blurry 150 quite imposing buildings! (looking towards lime street) another 150 and then back to earlestown on 150201 and home Edited January 2, 2014 by big jim 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 2, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2, 2014 back to it today, had a trip to liverpool to refresh the docks in readyness for the class 70s arriving next week, Looks like they may be delayed a day or two because of bad weather in the mid-Atlantic.... Hope you still get to do the pickup. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 4, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 4, 2014 Just one pic from the last few days, had a different freightliner 66 on the coal train earlier in the week which has since been swapped for 66850, here it is departing saltley bound for gloucester 66598 As ive put in the class 70 thread the first 2 colas examples have been unloaded from the ship in liverpool this afternoon ready to be craned onto the tracks and taken to rugby for comissioning on wednesday morning 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Chris116 Posted January 4, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4, 2014 As ive put in the class 70 thread the first 2 colas examples have been unloaded from the ship in liverpool this afternoon ready to be craned onto the tracks and taken to rugby for comissioning on wednesday morning We have to hope they don't drop them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Had to go into the Port of Liverpool the other day,was two luvly Colas 70s sitting there... Port Police wernt happy about me taking photos though and i was with work too.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishlocos Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 (edited) Hi Jim Great pics thanks for sharring bet you cant wait to get your hands on 37175 confirmed as being sold to Colas below on her final runs at Boness winter diesel gala regards Dave Edited January 12, 2014 by scottishlocos 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Hi Jim Great pics thanks for sharring bet you cant wait to get your hands on 37175 confirmed as being sold to Colas below on her final runs at Boness winter diesel gala GEDC2959.JPG GEDC2960.JPG regards Dave Wonder if Colas wil keep it in this BR blue livery..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swifty11 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Got this beauty a few weeks back, Colas' latest 56. Don't think Jim was at the helm but here's the video Also, when are you back on the logs Jim? I sent you a PM but you don't seem to have received it 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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