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(From the 82 newbuild from late 1800s Drummond and grannies teapot)!
No Smart phones in late 1950s? An engine had a number! In 1952 the ’82 Riddles’ design arrives Exmth jct 72A shed! I’m still at school! But of the many 82s I would later fire on branch lines, then 82010, 82011 would get the long service award! The list of my engines would go up to 82025! So quite a lot! A good engine but my alternatives were the Drummond M7, And the go anywhere Ivatt 2Mt sort which oddly had a smaller drive wheel than the late 1800s M7? That would meet ships on the high tide with gran’s Tea leaves (Don’t think the Tea Bag was invented back then)? Another Riddles (the 8000 4Mt was a bit later) And all to be blown away by the diesel DMU rail car in 1964! But the nearest model match Stick engine i show below, could loose a third of its tender, Plus 2 of its leading inner bogey wheels! Add side tanks, to be a Riddles 82 standard sort engine? They had drop bars, And various incidents would have me favour 82019 and 82025? I would once tell the true tales of friends of my Drivers wife who would ride the last train home in our cab! One women would be on my drivers lap, Others would sit on my seat making my injectors difficult to get at and others just get in the way! You don’t fire the last train! You run your fire down just right to be able to clean its fire bars and things! I don’t get to put the engine to bed in the shed till gone midnight! And sometimes I would have to chuck my clinker out the pit as well! So different to my transfer to Bristol Barrow days when a ‘new to me’ Black gentleman would climb aboard my engine on the pits at night, to only become visible when he smiled? ”You don’t clean your own fire up here” Said my driver! Hope I got my terminology right? God! I don’t half waffle on?
Mike Ashworth, Alex Mck and 2 others2 Comments-
I love your matchstick models. What scale do you build at – I’d guess it’s something like 4’ to the inch?
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I sort of judge steam chest input to leading wheel and then the trailing one to cab that usually supports the fire box! Tricky spot is cabs? I add winder’s, Regulators, Sight glasses, Injectors, Pick n shovel and tender hand brake! But its hard to find straight modellers matchsticks now! Most are bent! I use steam kettle for round wheels! Sometimes you can spend more time pulling stuff apart than building it! To redesign the 3Mt 82 standard is my aim! I done many 1000s of miles on them in early 1960s! But non were saved? But wheel width is 50mm or 5cm? If that makes any sense? It’s more like a creative Doodle than anything else! Lol.
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