Glenthorne motive power

[pilotfriend]

[Hobby]

Just slight overkill for a small harbour branch, Ivan! :)

[pilotfriend]

Hardly! According to the history of County Gate, there are two branches and GHR locos operate on the main line too.

In the real world, there needs to be redundancy to operate both Cliffhanger and County Gate side by side. I have finally had to withdraw my ancient scratch built Baldwin 4-6-0 as it is now completely worn out and was in any case too light to work on its own. My Garratt is also now approaching the end of its operating life. It is over 30 years old and only goes out on specials.

Some of the recently built locos have been on a 'roundtoit' list for 30 years! Seeing that many people now just buy 3d printed loco shells in corrugated plastic, County Gate and Cliffhanger remain a bastion of scratch built locos in brass and nickel silver. With some more credible 009 RTR locos gradually finding their way onto the market, I decided it was time to move to more freelance designs.