ScR steam in the 50's

Great pictures as usual Richard.

Black Five on shed.

And two views of the yard at Thurso taken in natural light.

What can I say, but superb.

I managed it all without needing anything more than the new boiler to repaint, which saved a good deal of work of relining.

A look at the genesis of the 77xxx now, as promised. As said, a melding of the 82xxx tank boiler and the 76xxx body minus boiler with the missing under boiler added from the cut off 76xxx boiler and the grooves in the 82xxx boiler where the tank slotted into filled in with plastistrip and a good deal of filler. I didn't take pics of that stage  much  but here are the basic bits of it all.

Well, the usual hiccups over picture and text positioning, but the gist is there - one day I may work out how to do it properly….
The detached under boiler was sliced down the middle and narrowed so the diameter and taper matched the smaller 82xxx one  - crude but effective, I'm afraid.

All clever stuff Richard.  

Intrigued by the 'natural light' shots - is the layout near a window or can you take it outside ?  If the former, I was imagining the effect of summer sunshine but I suspect where you are, summer sunshine is just the odd couple of days when the temperature soars to around 20 C ………  Where I am just now, we're being hammered by highs just a tad over 40 C and night time lows all the way down to a freezing 25 C ………………  

Couple of recent shots - an overhaul has been going on and I'll look in to it in more detail later, but the Thurso turntable has been enlarged with a Kitwood Hill 57' one instead of the previous 50'  which gives a lot more operational potential. Some shots of the destruction…