tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424806944441252350.post9205481952982676419..comments2023-05-14T17:05:35.128+01:00Comments on Derby Sustrans Rangers: Interesting VideosUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424806944441252350.post-5560602462493721962012-02-06T11:03:13.881+00:002012-02-06T11:03:13.881+00:00I have a slide scanner. It is home made (but works...I have a slide scanner. It is home made (but works) and fits on top of a conventional scanner, back lighting the slide, which then appears on the computer and requires some enhancement with photo editing software such as PhotoShop.<br />Transparances such as these are priceless, but we have become accustomed to better definition over the years. Nevertheless, such photographs are well worth preserving digitally.Les Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05047408259184589064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424806944441252350.post-73519916167883046982012-02-06T10:11:43.915+00:002012-02-06T10:11:43.915+00:00Another railway pedant writes:
Class 60. Built by ...Another railway pedant writes:<br />Class 60. Built by Brush (Loughborough) with Mirrlees 3100hp (2300kw) engine.<br />The video of the special to Derby shows the 'wiggly wire' installed on the down line.<br />If anyone in the group has a 35mm slide scanner, I will dig out my Mickleover pics ranging from orchids in the tunnel cutting to APT-E on test.<br />Nick.Longrangernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2424806944441252350.post-24467906827643372642012-02-05T20:58:52.677+00:002012-02-05T20:58:52.677+00:00Your pedantic railway expert says that this is a T...Your pedantic railway expert says that this is a TYPE 5 or a CLASS 60"Type" was a rough and ready power classification introduced in the early days of diesels - 1 being least powerful, 5 the most. "Class" was introduced when computerisation of various sorts of records began and again, in general, the higher the class number the more power the loco had. Diesel locos which existed before this were renumbered to conform with this system. Class 60s were the last new diesels introduced before privatisation for hauling heavy coal or oil trains and were fitted (if I remember rightly) with a 3250HP English Electric diesel engine supplying power to 6 electric motors, one to each axle. The instrument which was the interest of the camera for a while was almost certainly monitoring the electronic box of tricks which matched generator output to the motors with the power setting of the engine as controlled by the driver.<br />Clearly the loco had been left idling for a very long time before it was brought out of the shed at Mickleover and the exhaust system was full of half burnt diesel fuel. The dirtier smoke seen later in the film was caused by opening the throttle more quickly than the turboblowers could cope with. <br />The few bits of film from the train illustrate quite graphically how overgrown the path is now compared with its time as a functioning railway line.BirdyRednoreply@blogger.com