You Won't Believe What I Found In My Fiddle Yard!
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- You won't believe what Jenny found when she emptied her fiddle yard - she certainly didn't!
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I love the idea of lost rolling stock. It’s not just our model railways either. When I was working in Melbourne a few years ago one of my mates on the Puffing Billy Railway told me the story of his dad who worked for Victorian Railways in the 1950’s. VR realized they had quite a lot of stuff on their stock lists which seemed to have disappeared over the years. My mates dad was asked to update the inventory and to try and locate the missing items. He found wagons out in the outback that had jumped the track at some time and just been left where they were, some were in sidings at long abandoned way stations that had been forgotten.
The most amusing story though was an incident at Port Melbourne. After a rough shunt a wagon got shoved through the buffers and fell off the end of the pier into the water.
The customer who’s load was on board was naturally rather upset, so they sent a diver down with instructions to locate it and attach chains so it could be lifted out with a crane.
Down he went, only to resurface after a few minutes and ask « which one do you want? ».
Apparently there were about half a dozen down in the mud, there’d been quite a few incidents of the same type over the years but the port staff had kept quiet 😂
So there you go, there really is « a prototype for everything »!!!
A really interesting account!
Prior to computerised accounting I suspect similar happened in many places. There was a 16t mineral wagon discovered in a disused canal basin fairly recently near here. Rumoured to have gone in after running away on an incline, no doubt never officially admitted to.
Glad I'm not the only one then!! The pleasant surprises you get when you find that forgotten about wagon or carriage. It becomes that yippee moment!!!! And the Hereford Model shop is my local place to go. It's an Aladdin's Cave of all things model railways. Brilliant video Jenny.
It is a great source of bargains!
@@bentullett6068 haha!
It's amazing what you find, rummaged around in a box under my layout looking for an old controller only to find Hornby's City of St Albans complete with a comemorative plate! Straight on the track and she ran like a dream! can't remember when I bought her.
That’s a pretty impressive find!
@@JenniferEKirk It's an age thing Jenny!
Some lovely finds Jenny .
I must admit I am amazed at seeing some of these liveries and think they would look ideal on a rake of heritage coaches. it was also fascinating to finally see in detail where the line comes up from the fiddle yard. This has added an additional dimension to Wier Yard, and I love the way that you are able to demonstrate your knowledge of the rolling stock.
Many thanks!
Fantastic collection Jenny
Thank you so much 😀
Hi Jen,
The Bachmann GUV up in Satlink livery is a favourite of mine & I have just ordered the Rapido Dynamometer car. Can’t wait to receive this.
Good choice!
a) you need to catalogue your rolling stock. b) you need a CCTV camera in the fiddle yard (it may not be a good enough view to see what's in it, but you could at least see if anything derails) c) add barcodes or RFID to rolling stock bottoms and scan each road as they enter and leave the fiddle yard so a computer can track what's in each lane.
I keep telling her to get some cameras down there but apparently there’s no space because the stock would hit them when going in and out. :(
RFID tagging is a really good idea - David at McKinley model railway has made a video about this and it's bewildering but fascinating.
@@tjfSIM Would probably cost a fortune to! lol
All that work really wouldn't leave much time to play trains though!
@@Beatlefan67 I have a feeling the guys at McKinley enjoy cataloguing and tracking things more than they do actually running the trains 😂
Seems to be tons of detail on the Bachmann coaches. Nice!
Interesting video as usual Jen. I look forward to seeing your “engineers” rolling stock video.
Coming soon!
I have nothing lurking in tunnels, because there are none (yet) - but I do have a four-legged furry mobile obstruction on the track!
Pussy patrol? 😅
@@JenniferEKirk Sleeping on guard duty!
Hi Jenny awesome video
Thanks!
That coach with the window curtains was quite nice.
It is similar to the camping coach (not shown) and I think Bachmann reused the curtain insert on both.
W😮W - What a lot of Carriages you have - some of them I do like!!! 🤔🚂🚂🚂
great video
I wish I bought those Bachmann Mk1s when they were cheap a few years ago compared to now with being so much more expensive. Not many new versions seem to get released from Bachmann now either
I was lucky, stocking up when they were a lot cheaper.
Wonderful carriages
Thanks!
Ooo BR Mk 1s Yes. And you have so many.. Tartan is on my list too. regards PVA Jay-Cloth Alan :o)
I always need one more!
@@JenniferEKirk Yes of course :o) x
It looks like you build fiddle yards like me!
It was mostly an afterthought, hence the difficult access.
@@JenniferEKirk One problem with my fiddle yard came as a result of th evolution of the scenic area. When I made it slightly wider on one side, I didn't take into account the fact I couldn't reach the far line in the event a train stops/derails/to clean the track (Doh!)
Hi Jenny. You have just cost me £160 (LOL). I have long admired the RTC livery, so I have just ordered four coaches in the series (Laboratory 23, Test Car 6, Laboratory 10 and Laboratory 11) from the Bachmann Collectors Club. It was really interesting to see such a wide variety of coaches in your collection. How do you like the Intercity Swift livery?
The RTC livery is interesting.
I do love Intercity - it reminds me of the trains running when I was at school.
@@JenniferEKirk Ah, the youth of today!
It's when you think you lost an item of rolling stock, dig it out of a hidden fiddleyard or tunnel only to find you've bought another to replace it!
Not done that yet!
I have a spread sheet for all my rolling stock, 🚂.
That's a great idea!
I transfer my coaches and similar wagons to storage containers from Hobbycraft because I transport them to my club. I also keep most of my collection in a 20ft storage container that is nine miles from home. Not ideal. I have just received my Accurascale TPE coach set and my locomotive is in the container grrrrr!
Ouch!
Now of course if you had "Squarespace" as a sponsor Zoe could create a storage location sheet for you, 😂🤣🤣
The trouble is that I’m useless at remembering to update spreadsheets.
Jenny, you LNER buffet car could probably be easily tweaked to portray a Griddle Car.
I believe we have all been there before....
Fnarr! Fnarr!
Why reach across when you can reach around? 😉 On a serious note, your "lost" Mk 1s are great donor bodies for Class 123/124 conversions (my fetish).
Simply put you have too much stuff. XD
Hi Can you please tell me what Zoe email address is to send videos. .